User:RGReiber/Richard Sharp (computer scientist)

Richard Sharp is a British computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Yieldify. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he is a Teaching Fellow and currently serves as Director of Studies for Computer Science. Sharp has also served as the Senior Product Manager for Banking Comparison Products at Google and the Vice President of Product Development at Citrix.

Sharp is a notable expert in the application of marketing automation to create personalized online shopping experiences.

Sharp is also a contributor to Entrepreneur and CMSWire,  and was featured on the Tech Blog Writer Podcast with Neil C. Hughes and the Harvey Nash Group Podcast.

Career
Sharp holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He began his career as a Research Engineer at AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, working on statistically allocated languages for hardware synthesis with Professor Alan Mycroft. After obtaining his PhD, Sharp worked as a Research Scientist at Intel Research Cambridge. He later became the Principal Engineer at XenSource, a startup formed at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab that was acquired by Citrix. Upon acquisition he became a Principal Engineer at Citrix and later the Director of Software Production, advancing to Vice President of Product Development before joining Google as Senior Product Manager.

Sharp is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Yieldify, where he is responsible for executing the company's product vision and strategy.[1]

Research
Sharp is a Research Fellow and Director of Studies for Computer Science at Robinson College (Cambridge University). Sharp's research career has focused on the application of programming languages and compiler technology to complex systems engineering problems. He holds seven patents and has published extensively on language design, compiler design, program analysis, program optimization, hardware synthesis, software security, and ubiquitous computing.