Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan is a Professor at the College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, with affiliations in both Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments. He co-directs the Microsystems Design Lab and leads the Architecture, Benchmarking, and Circuits Thrust at the DARPA/SRC LEAST Center.

• Education: Bachelors (1993) from University of Madras; Ph.D. (1998) from University of South Florida

His research focuses on Power Aware Computing, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, and Emerging Device Integration. Recent work explores steep-slope devices for energy efficiency, nonvolatile processors for ambient energy harvesting, and neuromorphic architectures using hybrid VO₂-MOSFET oscillators.

Key article trends span post-CMOS technologies (tunnel FETs, VO₂ devices), low-power design, and bio-inspired signal processing.

• Scientific Awards: IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Best Paper, IEEE Micro Best Paper
• Patents: Dynamically-configurable hardware architecture for audience analytics