Sarma Vrudhula

Sarma Vrudhula is a Professor at the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University (ASU). He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (1985). Previously, he was a professor at the University of Arizona and served as the founding director of the NSF UA/ASU Center for Low Power Electronics. He is an IEEE Fellow recognized for contributions to low-power and energy-efficient digital circuit design.

Educations:

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (1985)
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (1980)
• Bachelor's in Mathematics (Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics), University of Waterloo, Canada (1976)

Research Interests:

His work focuses on design automation, energy management in digital systems, statistical analysis of process variations, threshold logic circuits, and emerging technologies. He has pioneered methodologies for low-power VLSI design, thermal management of multi-core processors, and hardware implementations of threshold logic using spintronic devices.

Publications:

His recent research includes scalable energy-efficient architectures for AI, in-memory computing, and reconfigurable threshold logic gates. Key topics span energy efficiency in edge computing, neuromorphic systems, and sustainable VLSI design.

Awards:

• IEEE Fellow (2005)
• Best Paper Award (2008) for macro cell characterization methodology

Service & Grants:

He led the NSF IUCRC Consortium for Embedded Systems and served on editorial boards. His grants include projects on threshold logic synthesis, energy-aware embedded systems, and hardware acceleration for neural networks.

Courses Taught:

• Algorithmic Foundations of CAD for Digital Systems
• Computer Architecture
• Discrete Mathematics for Engineers