Anand Raghunathan

Anand Raghunathan is a Silicon Valley Professor and Chair of the VLSI area at Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He serves as Associate Director of the $36M SRC/DARPA Center for Brain-inspired Computing (C-BRIC) and Co-Director of the Purdue/TSMC Center for a Secure Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME). His research focuses on

• Brain-inspired computing
• Energy-efficient machine learning
• System-on-chip design
• Post-CMOS devices
• Heterogeneous computing

Educated with a B.Tech from IIT Madras, and MA/PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, he directs Purdue's Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL) which explores domain-specific architectures and compute-in-memory technologies. His work spans security for embedded systems, battery-efficient computing, and computational imaging commercialized through High Performance Imaging, Inc.

Research keywords include:

• Neural network acceleration
• Hardware-software co-design
• Security vulnerabilities
• Post-CMOS devices
• Transformer optimization

Scientific awards include:

• IEEE Fellow
• MIT TR35 innovator
• 9 Best Paper Awards
• 2 NEC Technology Commercialization Awards
• Purdue Faculty Excellence Award

Advising and grants:

• Co-founded High Performance Imaging, Inc.
• Founded Purdue/TSMC Center for Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem
• Hold 29 U.S. and 16 international patents
• Chair of 5 IEEE/ACM conferences
• Editorial roles in ACM/IEEE journals

Labs and teams:

• Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL)
• Collaborations with NEC Labs, Princeton University, and IIT Madras
• Lead $36M SRC/DARPA C-BRIC Center