Anand Raghunathan received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
He is the Silicon Valley Professor and Chair of the VLSI area in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also holds the C. R. Muthukrishnan Distinguished Visiting Chair in Computational Brain Research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He serves as Associate Director of the SRC/DARPA Center for Brain-inspired Computing (C-BRIC) and founding co-director of the Purdue/TSMC Center for a Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME). His areas of research include brain-inspired computing, energy-efficient machine learning and artificial intelligence, system-on-chip design and computing with post-CMOS devices. He is a co-founder and Director of Hardware at High Performance Imaging, Inc., a company commercializing Purdue innovations in the area of computational imaging. Before joining Purdue, he was a Senior Researcher and Project Leader at NEC Laboratories America and held a visiting position at Princeton University.
Prof. Raghunathan has co-authored a book, eight book chapters, and over 300 refereed journal and conference papers, and holds 28 U.S patents and 16 international patents. His work has received nine best paper awards, a retrospective ten-year most impactful paper award, one design contest award and seven best paper nominations at premier IEEE and ACM conferences. He received a Patent of the Year Award (an award recognizing the invention that has achieved the highest impact), and two Technology Commercialization Award from NEC. He also received the IBM Faculty Award and Qualcomm Faculty Award. He was chosen by MIT's Technology Review among the TR35 (top 35 innovators under 35 years, across various disciplines of science and technology) in 2006, for his work on "making mobile secure". He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras. Prof. Raghunathan has chaired four premier IEEE/ACM conferences, and served on the editorial boards of various IEEE and ACM journals in his areas of interest. He received the IEEE Meritorious Service Award and Outstanding Service Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society.