Cooper Sanders

I am a recent Computer Engineering graduate from the Clemson University Honors College. My current interests at a high level concern accommodating the death of Moore’s law and Dennard scaling with forward thinking design methodologies and architectures at the hardware level, specifically with approximate architectures, domain specific accelerators, dynamic voltage/frequency scaling, and other cutting-edge design ideas that show promise in preliminary research but are in early stages at best of private sector application. My long term career goal is to realize the next paradigm of computing in industry by bridging the gap at the hardware design level between academic thought experiments and real world hardware. I have background and interests in GPU & FPGA programming, compression & approximate computing, EDA, digital design, and of course, a little bit of AI & ML (because who doesn’t have that on their resume these days). Currently I am an Application Engineer at Cadence Design Systems in Silicon Valley.

I’m also a devoted jazz/pop trombonist, serving as an on-demand gigging musician, playing shows with my rock band, and performing with Clemson’s jazz ensemble and marching band. Need a trombonist who can play any melody after hearing it once? And sound like a laser while doing it? Give me a call!