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Drost joined Sun Microsystems in 1993 after obtaining a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2001 he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford. As of 2011 he is a holder of over 95 patents in microelectronics.
Until 2010, Drost was a Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Advanced Hardware at Sun Microsystems. He led the early efforts on a high-speed chip I/O technology called proximity communication, which replaces wires by capacitive coupling, promising significant increase in communications speed between chips in an electronic system and reduced energy consumption, latency, and system size.
Since 2010, Drost has been with Pluribus Networks, a Palo Alto based startup that he co-founded with Sunay Tripathi and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and that is revolutionizing next generation networking hardware and software platforms.
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