Biography

Rangharajan Venkatesan is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India in 2009. During his Ph.D., he was a research intern at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA from May 2012 to September 2012 and June 2013 to September 2013, where he worked on developing low power CAD techniques for graphics hardware and non-volatile retention flip-flop design for enabling fine-grained power gating in computing systems. His research interests include circuit-architecture co-design for emerging technologies, neuromorphic hardware design, approximate computing, and variation-tolerant design. He was a recipient of Purdue's Ross Fellowship for the year 2009-2010 and the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for the year 2013-2014. His work on domain wall memory design was recognized with the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2012.