Harisankar Sadasivan
2025-2027 Distinguished Visitor Speaker

Dr. Harisankar (Hari) Sadasivan is an affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Senior Member & Distinguished Visitor at IEEE. Hari’s research focuses on 3 Critical and Emergent Technologies (CET) that are identified as significant for US’s national security- ‘advanced computing’ for ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘biotechnologies’. Previously, Hari led the AMD Center of Excellence in AI at UW Seattle and co-founded the AMD lifesciences group. Hari received his PhD and Masters in CSE from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor where he was advised by Prof. Satish Narayanasamy. Hari’s PhD research focussed on HW-SW co-design for accelerated and portable long-read DNA sequencing. Hari’s PhD research has won the prestigious 2022 MICRO Top Picks with Honorable Mention (with multiple artifact badges). Hari is a Technical reviewer with several IEEE/ACM venues including the longest, oldest and the most prestigious formats. Hari has previously worked with AMD, NVIDIA and Samsung R&D.







