Key Technical Personnel

Craig Hansen
Mr. Hansen has been the chief architect of MicroUnity since July 1989. Mr. Hansen was formerly chief architect at NeXT and at MIPS, where he was responsible for the original MIPS integer and floating-point architecture. Prior to MIPS, he was the architect of graphics, RISC and floating-point chips at Weitek. He began his career at HP, where he worked on the math architecture of PA-RISC. Mr. Hansen is an author of 24 U.S. Patents, and received his BSEE from Cornell and MSEE from Stanford.

Alexia Massalin
Dr. Massalin has held the position of research scientist for MicroUnity since October 1992, and she is responsible for signal-processing modules and software architecture. Prior to joining MicroUnity, Ms. Massalin obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Cooper Union School of Engineering as well as a doctorate degree from Columbia University. Dr. Massalin’s dissertation, "Synthesis: An Efficient Implementation of Fundamental Operating Systems Services," is now part of the required reading in advanced operating systems courses at several major universities.