Vijaykrishnan Narayanan is the A. Robert Noll Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

. He has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1998. He is an international expert in

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. His research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems.

Biography

Education

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan received his

B.E. A Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) or a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) is an academic undergraduate degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at an accredited college or university. In the UK, a Bache ...

(Bachelor of Engineering) in

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from

University of Madras The University of Madras (informally known as Madras University) is a public university, public State university (India), state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prestigiou ...

in 1993, and his

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from the University of South Florida in 1998, respectively.

Career

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan joined the faculty of the

as an

assistant professor Assistant Professor is an academic rank just below the rank of an associate professor used in universities or colleges, mainly in the United States and Canada. Overview This position is generally taken after earning a doctoral degree and general ...

in 1998. He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2007. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan has worked in the area of power-aware design. With colleagues at Penn State, he developed architectural level power simulators, SimplePower and SoftWatt. He has developed application-specific architectures, including the design, implementation, and field-testing of board level designs for DARPA DESA and DARPA Neovision2 programs.

Service to the Computing Community

Narayanan has extensive service to the Computer Science and Engineering research community. He currently serves as the past chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation. Previously he served as a founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Personal life

Honors and awards

A list of all his awards follows. * 2015

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Fellow * 2012 ASP-DAC Ten-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award * 2011

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

Fellow * 2003 IEEE/CAS VLSI Transactions Best Paper of the Year Award

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