Mark Horowitz is the Yahoo Founder's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and serves on the Board of Directors at Rambus. He has been a professor at Stanford working in the the area of digital integrated circuit design since 1984 and took a leave of absense from Stanford to found Rambus, a company designing high-bandwidth memory interface technology.

While at Stanford, he has led a number of processor designs and has worked in a number of other chip design areas including high-speed memory design, high-bandwidth interfaces, and fast floating-point circuits.

Professor Horowitz received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.