Prof. Anand Raghunathan receives Qualcomm Faculty Award
Prof. Anand Raghunathan has been chosen to receive a 2020 Qualcomm Faculty Award. The Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) supports key professors and their research through a $75,000 charitable donation to their university. The goal of the QFA funding is to strengthen Qualcomm’s engagement with faculty who are playing a key role in Qualcomm’s recruiting of top graduate students.
Raghunathan directs the Integrated Systems Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue. His group's research spans various topics in VLSI and Computer Engineering, including System-on-chip design, domain-specific architecture, computing with nanoscale post-CMOS devices, and heterogeneous parallel computing. Raghunathan is currently Chair of the VLSI area in the School of ECE.
He is also the associate director of Purdue’s Center for Brain-inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence, or C-BRIC, which is a five-year project supported by $27 million in funding from the Semiconductor Research Corp. The mission of the Center for Brain-inspired Computing (C-BRIC) is to deliver key advances in cognitive computing, with the goal of enabling a new generation of autonomous intelligent systems such as self-flying drones and interactive personal robots.