Purdue University Prof. Vijay Raghunathan elevated to Fellow status with IEEE
Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University’s Vice President of Global Partnerships and Programs and Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been selected for the 2024 class of Fellows with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), effective January 1, 2024. This is the highest grade of membership the institute confers upon its members. It is a distinction reserved for select individuals whose extraordinary accomplishments have contributed to the advancement or application of engineering, science, and technology, bringing significant value to society.
Raghunathan, who also leads the Semiconductor Degrees Program (SDP) as Purdue University’s Director of Semiconductor Education, is being recognized “for contributions to the design of low power and energy harvesting embedded systems.” He established the Embedded Systems and IoT Lab (ESL) at Purdue where research focuses on hardware and software architectures for embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, TinyML for efficient AI at the edge, and wearable and implantable electronics, with an emphasis on low power design, micro-scale energy harvesting, and reliable/secure system design. Several of the technologies and systems developed in his lab have been used in academia and industry.
“I am truly fortunate to have had a stellar and most generous set of mentors, collaborators, and former and current students who have all taught me so much and made this journey impactful and such fun,” said Raghunathan. “Recognitions like these are always dedicated to all of them with much gratitude.”
Raghunathan is considered one of the leading experts in the design of energy-harvesting embedded systems. He has co-authored more than a hundred journal and conference papers (several of which have won best paper and best design awards) and has presented numerous keynotes, invited talks, and tutorials on the above topics. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2010) and the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award (2019), has chaired multiple premier IEEE/ACM conferences, and has served as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). He serves as an investigator on multiple large nation-leading research centers including the SRC/DARPA JUMP Center on Brain Inspired Computing (C-BRIC), SRC/DARPA JUMP2.0 Center for the Co-Design of Cognitive Systems (CoCoSys), and the SRC/DARPA JUMP 2.0 Center for Cognitive Multispectral Sensors (CogniSense).