{"id":2807,"date":"2026-06-09T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rivier.edu\/academics\/?page_id=2807"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:14:00","slug":"john-glossner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rivier.edu\/academics\/department\/computer-science\/faculty\/john-glossner\/","title":{"rendered":"John Glossner, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>Dr. John Glossner is CEO of the Wireless Innovation Forum where he leads the technical Standards Development Organization with a focus on Spectrum Sharing, Software Defined Systems, and Mission Critical Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to WInnForum, he was the Director of Computer Science Programs at °µÍø³Ô¹Ï. He still teaches as an adjunct graduate-level Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, and Computer Security.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Rivier, he was a Professor and Director of the Computer Architecture, Heterogeneous Computing, and AI Lab at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing (USTB), where he supervised Ph.D. students. Prior to USTB, he was the Chair of Computer Science at Daniel Webster College where he taught undergraduate students. In addition to faculty positions, he has held multiple industry positions at IBM Microelectronics, IBM Research, and Bell Labs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, he co-founded Sandbridge Technologies which raised $70M in venture funding. Before being acquired, the World Economic Forum recognized the company for developing world-changing DSP technology widely used in today\u2019s commercial cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>After Sandbridge, he became CTO of China-based Huaxia General Processor Technologies (hxGPT) and CEO of its U.S.-based subsidiary Optimum Semiconductor Technologies Inc. (OST), where he led embedded development of heterogeneous processor designs including variable length vector processors and domain-specific AI accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Glossner has also served voluntarily as President of both the Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation (HSAF) and the Wireless Innovation Forum.<\/p>\n<p>He has more than 120 publications and 40 issued patents.<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology<\/li>\n<li>Preliminary Ph.D. Studies in Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/li>\n<li>M.S. Electrical Engineering, The National Technological University<\/li>\n<li>M.S. Engineering Management, The National Technological University<\/li>\n<li>B.S. Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Specialties<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Computer Architecture, Organization, and Design<\/li>\n<li>Heterogeneous Computing<\/li>\n<li>Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Digital Signal Processing<\/li>\n<li>Operating Systems<\/li>\n<li>Compilers and Dynamic Hardware Translation<\/li>\n<li>Software-defined Radios and Wireless Communications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Courses Taught<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span>COMP 505 Computer Science Fundamentals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>COMP 552 Object-Oriented Design<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>COMP 554 Operating Systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>COMP 556 Computer Architecture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>COMP 572 Computer Security<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>COMP 635 Technology Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>COMP 671 Deep Learning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>COMP 699 Professional Seminar<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Additionally:<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2013 Computer Graphics<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2013 Machine Learning and AI<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2013 Software Engineering (Agile)<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2013 Game Programming (Unity and Unreal Engine)<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u2013 Digital Signal Processing<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Recent Publications, Grants, and Proceedings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pruning and quantization for deep neural network acceleration: A survey, Elsevier Neurocomputing, Vol. 461, pp. 370-403 \u00b7 Jul 5, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Heterogeneous Edge CNN Accelerator, (Best Paper Award), 2020 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) \u00b7 Oct 1, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Offloading C++17 Parallel STL on System Shared Virtual Memory Platforms Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing (OpenSuco3 in ISC 2018) \u00b7 Jun 1, 2018<\/li>\n<li>The Next Generation of High-Performance Vector ISA for AI Acceleration, 2017 China Symposium on Artificial Intelligence \u00b7 May 25, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Stock Market Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms, Twenty-Second Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region Conference (CCSCNE-2017) \u00b7 Apr 7, 2017<\/li>\n<li>ACAT Assessment of Grade-based and Outcome-based Criteria, 2016 ASEE Annual Conference &amp; Exposition \u00b7 Jun 26, 2016<\/li>\n<li>HSA-Enabled DSPs and Accelerators, 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal &amp; Information Processing (GlobalSiP) \u00b7 Dec 14, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Game Design and Development Capstone Project Assessment Using Scrum, 122nd ASEE Annual Conference &amp; Exposition. Seattle, WA \u00b7 Jun 14, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of an SDR system using an MPI-based GPU cluster for WiMAX and LTE, Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing \u00b7 Nov 1, 2012<\/li>\n<li>The Sandblaster 2.0 Architecture and SB3500 Implementation, Proceedings of the Software Defined Radio Technical Forum (SDR Forum \u201908), Washington DC \u00b7 Oct 1, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Dr. John Glossner is CEO of the Wireless Innovation Forum where he leads the technical Standards Development Organization with a focus on Spectrum Sharing, Software Defined Systems, and Mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"parent":773,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2807","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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