Patrick Crowley
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone
314-935-9186 - Office
McKelvey Hall, Room 2039
Google ScholarEducation
PhD, University of Washington, 2003BA, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1996
Research areas
Expertise
Computer & Network Systems Architect
Research
Patrick Crowley's current research projects focus on networked systems with improved privacy, performance, scalability & ease-of-use.
Biography
Professor Crowley's research career began at the University of Washington where he earned a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering for his work in the design and evaluation of processor and memory architectures for high-performance networking, a line of research that predated and subsequently influenced the development of commercial network processors. He joined WashU CSE as an assistant professor in 2003.
Professor Crowley was founder and Chief Technology Officer of cloud security company Observable Networks, which he sold to Cisco Systems in 2017. In 2021, he was the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information & Communications Technologies at the University of Helsinki. He is co-editor of the three-book series, Network Processor Design and co-founded the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems. In 2007, Professor Crowley was chosen to join the DARPA Computer Science Study Group.
Professor Crowley was founder and Chief Technology Officer of cloud security company Observable Networks, which he sold to Cisco Systems in 2017. In 2021, he was the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information & Communications Technologies at the University of Helsinki. He is co-editor of the three-book series, Network Processor Design and co-founded the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems. In 2007, Professor Crowley was chosen to join the DARPA Computer Science Study Group.
