John W. Lockwood

• John W. Lockwood designs and implements networking systems in reconfigurable hardware. He serves as the lead consultant and CEO of Algo-Logic Systems--a company that specializes in implementing networking algorithms in hardware. In this role, he helps companies build custom networks in hardware and provides training for companies using open platforms like the NetFPGA. Lockwood has published over 100 papers in journals and technical conferences that describe technologies for providing extensible network services, Quality of Service (QoS), and security in high-speed computer networks and wireless LANs.

  Prior to starting Algo-Logic in September of 2009, Lockwood managed the NetFPGA program as a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In this role, he grew of worldwide deployment of NetFPGA hardware from 10 to 1,021 units, specified reference systems for the NetFPGA, managed the relationships with the corporate sponsors, and taught 11 NetFPGA workshops and tutorials around the world. The worldwide tutorials including the the NetFPGA Developer Workshop, the week-long summer camp, Hot Interconnects tutorial at Stanford University; the NetFPGA SIGCOMM tutorial; and international tutorials in U.K., Europe, India, China, and Australia.

  Prior to joining Stanford in January of 2007, Lockwood led the Reconfigurable Network Group, which was a part of the Applied Research Laboratory at Washington University in Saint Louis. At Washington University, He was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Lockwood and his research group developed the Field programmable Port Extender (FPX) to enable rapid prototype of extensible network modules in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology.

  Professor Lockwood has served as the principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, Xilinx, Altera, Agilent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Rockwell Collins, and Boeing. He has worked in industry for AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He served as a co-founder of Global Velocity, a networking startup company focused on high-speed data security. Dr. Lockwood earned his MS, BS, and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.

  Dr. Lockwood has served as both a program chair and general chair for the Hot Interconnects conference and the International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE). He has served on the technical program committee for International Working Conference on Active Networks (IWAN), International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), and the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM). He has served as a reviewer for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems (TECS), ACM SIGMETRICS, Computer Networks Journal, and Globecom. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.

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  Publications by Topic

  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention
  • Internet Packet Forwarding and Classification
  • Content-based Routing and Filtering
  • Bloom Filters
  • TCP/IP Flow Processing
  • Buffering and Queuing
  • Soft-core Liquid Architectures
  • Thermal Management of Reconfigurable Hardware
  • Data Classification and Clustering
  • Reconfigurable Hardware Platforms
  • Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGA Platforms

  Representative Publications

  • Encouraging Reusable Network Hardware Design, by G. Adam Covington, Glen Gibb, Jad Naous, John Lockwood, Nick McKeown; IEEE Microelectronics System Education (MSE), June 2009.
  • NetFPGA: An Open Platform for Teaching How to Build Gigabit-rate Network Switches and Routers; by Glen Gibb, John W. Lockwood, Jad Naous, Paul Hartke, and Nick McKeown; IEEE Transactions of Education, August 2008, Volume 51, Issue 3, pp. 364-369.
  • Fast and Scalable Pattern Matching for Network Intrusion Detection Systems, by Sarang Dharmapurikar and John W. Lockwood, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, (JSAC) Oct. 2006, Volume: 24, Issue: 10, pp. 1781- 1792
  • Extracting and Improving Microarchitecture Performance on Reconfigurable Architectures; by Shobana Padmanabhan, Phillip Jones, David V. Schuehler, Scott J. Friedman, Praveen Krishnamurthy, Huakai Zhang, Roger Chamberlain, Ron K. Cytron, Jason Fritts and John W. Lockwood; International Journal on Parallel Programming (IJPP), 33(2-3):115-136, June 2005
  • An Extensible, System-On-Programmable-Chip, Content-Aware Internet Firewall,
    by John W. Lockwood, Christopher Neely, Christopher Zuver, James Moscola, Sarang Dharmapurikar, and David Lim; Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Lisbon, Portugal, Paper 14B, Sep 1-3, 2003.

  Photos of past and present FPGA projects

  Stanford Contact Information:

  • Web: http://stanford.edu/~jwlockwd/
  • Email: jwlockwd@stanford.edu