Anand Raghunathan

Anand Raghunathan is Silicon Valley Chair Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research has advanced the design of microelectronic integrated circuits and computing systems, with his recent work focusing on hardware for artificial intelligence, brain-inspired computing, and computing with CMOS+X technologies. He co-directs the SRC/DARPA funded Center for the Co-design of Cognitive Systems and is the founding co-director of the Purdue-led Center for a Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem. Before joining Purdue, he was a Senior Researcher and Project Leader at NEC Laboratories America and held a visiting position at Princeton University. Raghunathan’s research has been recognized with nine best paper awards, a ten-year retrospective most influential paper award and a best design contest award at premier conferences in his field. He has co-authored a book, eight book chapters, and over 300 journal and conference papers, and holds 28 U.S patents and 16 international patents. He was cited as one of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review magazine and received a Patent of the Year Award and two Technology Commercialization Awards from NEC Corp. for his work that shaped multiple generations of semiconductor products. At Purdue, he received the Arden L. Bement award for outstanding accomplishments in pure and applied sciences and engineering, the College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Research, two Qualcomm Faculty Awards, and the IBM Faculty Award. Raghunathan received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he was recognized with a Distinguished Alumnus Award, and M.A and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and received the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award and Outstanding Service Award.