John W. Lockwood

2025 Distinguished Alumni Award

For impactful technical contributions, exemplary leadership, and loyalty to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

John W. Lockwood is the founder and CEO of Algo-Logic Systems, Inc. He is an expert in building FPGA-accelerated applications and has created companies in the areas of low latency networking, Internet security, and electronic commerce.

He has worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM, and Science Applications International Corp (SAIC). As a professor at Stanford University, he managed the NetFPGA program from 2007 to 2009 and grew the Beta program 10 to 1,021 cards deployed worldwide. As a tenured professor, he created and led the Reconfigurable Network Group within the Applied Research Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis.

He has published over 100 papers and patents on topics related to networking with FPGAs and served as served as principal investigator on dozens of federal and corporate grants. He holds BS, MS, PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is a member of IEEE, ACM, and Tau Beta Pi.

Nominated by his advisor, Sung-Mo Kang.

Current as of 2025.