Vijay Raghunathan

Vijay Raghunathan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University's College of Engineering. His work focuses on hardware and software architectures for embedded systems, wireless sensors for IoT, and wearable/implantable electronics with emphasis on low power design, energy harvesting, emerging memory technologies, and secure system design.

• Academic Rank: Professor
• Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University: Purdue University
• Research Focus: Energy-efficient embedded systems, IoT, wearable devices

His research explores low power design at both board-level and system-on-chip scales, micro-scale energy harvesting, and reliable/secure system design for medical devices. Recent work focuses on Processing-in-Sensor/Memory for battery-free AIoT devices, state space models for neural processing units, and security coprocessor integration in autonomous systems.

Analysis of his publications reveals trends in energy-efficient neural network acceleration, approximate computing for edge inference, and compute-in-memory architectures. Key subfields include collaborative edge-cloud partitioning, sparse DNN accelerators, and security frameworks for medical devices.

Vijay's work also addresses energy-accuracy tradeoffs in multimodal cognitive systems and intermittent computing using non-volatile memory technologies. His contributions span from microcontroller energy management to security protocols for implantable electronics.