معرفی
Mithuna S. Thottethodi is a Professor and Interim Associate Head of Teaching and Learning at the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1996), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University (2002). His research focuses on computer architecture, interconnection networks, distributed systems, and security, with notable work on sparse tensor accelerators and processing-near-memory architectures. His work has been funded by the NSF, AT&T, and SK Hynix.
Research interests include security, interconnection networks in multicores, storage performance optimization, and memory hierarchies. Notable contributions span hardware accelerators for machine learning, secure speculative execution, and datacenter network congestion control. He has advised over 20 graduate students, many of whom have joined top tech firms like Google, Microsoft, and Intel.
- Awards:
- NSF CAREER Award (2007)
- Wilfred Hesselberth Teaching Excellence Award (2021)
- Multiple Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Professor Awards
Teaching includes undergraduate courses like EE 437 (Computer Design) and graduate courses such as ECE 666 (Advanced Computer Architecture). He also advises VIP and EPICS student teams.
