Jonathan Rose is a Professor and Chair of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto .
He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from the University of Toronto. From 1986 to 1989, he was a Post-Doctoral Scholar and then Research Associate in the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University , where he played for the Stanford Hockey Team, including 3 games at the Varsity Level. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto. He spent the 1995-1996 year as a Senior Research Scientist at Xilinx, in San Jose, CA, working on the Virtex FPGA architecture and also playing on the inaugural Xilinx Hockey Team. From 1989 until 1999 he was an NSERC University Research Fellow.
He is the co-founder of the ACM FPGA Symposium , and remains part of that Symposium on its steering committee.
In October 1998, he co-founded Right Track CAD Corporation, which delivered architecture for FPGAs and Packing, Placement and Routing software for FPGAs to FPGA device vendors. He was President and CEO of Right Track until May 1, 2000. Right Track was purchased by Altera, and became part of the Altera Toronto Technology Centre, where Rose was Senior Director until April 30, 2003. He occasionally played on the Altera Hockey Team. His group at Altera Toronto shared responsibility for the development of the architecture for the Altera Stratix, Stratix II, Stratix GX and Cyclone FPGAs. His group was also responsible for placement, routing, delay annotation software and benchmarking for these devices, and for the placement and routing software for the Altera Apex 20K and Flex 10K FPGAs. From May 1, 2003 to April 30, 2004 Rose held the part-time position of Senior Research Scientist at Altera Toronto.
He has worked for Bell-Northern Research and a number of FPGA companies on a consulting basis.
A paper co-authored with Steve Brown won a distinguished paper award at the 1990 ICCAD Conference.
His research covers all aspects of FPGAs including their architecture, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Field-Programmable Systems, Soft Processors, and graphics, vision and bio-informatic applications of programmable hardware.