Research Summary
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan has published more than 300 refereed articles in journals and conferences in the areas of power-aware and reliable systems, embedded systems, reconfigurable architectures, nano-architectures and computer architecture. He has supervised 27 Ph.D. graduates (including the 2009 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award Winner) and 39 M.S students. He has one patent issued in the area of embedded vision, and two pending in the area of nano devices. He has served as an investigator on several research grants administered by US Federal agencies (including National Science Foundation, DARPA, Dept. of Energy, Army, Office of Naval Research) and Industry (Semiconductor Research Corporation, Intel Science and Technology Center, The Technology Collaborative). These projects have resulted in the design of new CAD tools and optimizations for power and reliability, the creation of new experimental platforms and system architectures.
Service Summary
Narayanan is an active volunteer in the design automation, VLSI and
computer architecture conferences. He has served as program committee
member, track chair and conference chair for leading conferences in
these areas. He serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Transactions on CAD and has served a four-year term in the IEEE
Transactions on VLSI editorial board. He is also the founding
co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in
Computing Systems (2003-2009). He serves as a Steering Committee Member
of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI and ACM/IEEE
Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. He is a member of the Design and
Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has served and continues to
serve in other leadership roles in IEEE Societies.
Within Penn State, Narayanan has served in numerous service leadership
roles including serving as Director for Graduate Affairs for CSE, Chair
of the College of Engineering Academic Integrity Committee, Student
Advisor of the IEEE Computer Society, the Penn State Vegetarian
Club and the Penn State Cricket Club.
Teaching Summary
Narayanan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Architecture, VLSI Design, FPGA Systems, Functional Verification, Embedded Systems and Nano Architectures. He has organized teaching workshops in FPGAs, Functional Verification and VLSI Design along with international conferences to enable adoption of new course material by other faculty members. He maintains a functional verification teaching repository (along with Bruce Wile, IBM) used by more than 50 universities around the world. He is a member of the Expert Panel of the Indo US collaboration on Engineering Education. He led an effort to integrate biology and computer science education offered to undergraduates as part of the NSF CPATH program.
Research Awards/Honors
Narayanan has received numerous honorary awards recognizing his contributions in research, services and teaching. Below is a selected list of awards:
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(2011) Elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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(2010) Outstanding Alumni Award, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, India
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(2010) National Security Agency/University of Maryland Laboratory of Physical Sciences Certificate of Appreciation for promoting excellence in scientific research
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(2008) Association of Computing Machinery Recognition of Service Award
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(2008) IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of Editorial Activities
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(2007) IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of Editorial Activities
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(2006) PSES Outstanding Research Award (March)
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(2006) IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation for contributions to Chapter Activities Board Student Activities