Biography:
I am the Director & Chair of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Joseph K. Jachinowski Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio University. I lead the Technologies for Emerging Computer Architecture Laboratory (TEAL) at Ohio University. I received my PhD and MS from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from The University of Arizona in August 2006 and May 2003 respectively. I completed my BE in Electronics and Communications in February 2000 from Manipal Institute of Technology, Mangalore University. I was a post-doctoral scholar at the High-Performance Computing Architectures and Technologies (HPCAT) Laboratory at The University of Arizona from 2006 to 2007. I joined Ohio University as an Assistant Professor in 2007, promoted to Associate in 2012 and became Professor in 2016. I served as a consultant to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Exascale and FastForward initiatives sponsored by Department of Energy from 2013-2017.
My research interests include computer architecture, optical interconnects, network-on-chips (NoCs), machine learning, hardware security, quantum computing and chiplet-based heterogeneous architectures. I am the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2011), Presidential Research Scholar Award (2017), Best Paper Award at the ICCD (2013) conference, Best Paper Award at the Quantum Computing Engineering Conference (QCE'25), Best Student Paper at the Defect and Fault Tolerance (DFT'25), and my papers have been nominated for Best Paper at IEEE High-Performance Computing, Data & Analytics (HiPC) in Dec 2021, IEEE Design and Test in Europe (DATE) in March 2019, IEEE Symposium on Network-on-Chips (NoCs) in May 2010 and IEEE Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) in January 2009. My 2004 Hot Interconnects paper was selected as one of the Top Picks for IEEE MICRO magazine in 2005.
I currently serve as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Transactions on Computers since 2024, I have served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers (2019-2023), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2021-2025) and I have been a co-Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics for Computing ('15-'16) and Journal of Parallel and Distributed (JPDC) ('10-'11). I am the Vice-Chair for Architecture area for IPDPS-2020 and I have been on the Program Committee of ISCA, HPCA, MICRO, NoCs, MPSoC, HiPC, DAC, and other architecture conferences.
News:
9/18/26: HiPC'26 Papers Accepted! Congrats to Zach and Yuan
6/2/26: MWSCAS'26 Papers Accepted! Congrats to Aakriti and Ismail
5/1/26: GLSVSLI-26 Paper Accepted! Congrats to Aakriti and Savas
3/9/26: HAIQ-26 presenting poster!
1/19/26: ISQED-26 Paper Accepted! Congrats to Siqin
11/10/25: DATE-26 Paper Accepted! Congrats to Siqin and Maya
10/23/25: Best Student Paper Award at DFT-2025! Congrats to Youssef and Sampada!
9/5/25: Best Paper Award at QCE-2025! Congrats to Zach Takacs
Openings:
PhD openings in AI hardware design, NoCs, photonic interconnects, hardware security & sustainability for Fall-2026