Rajit Manohar

Bio: Rajit Manohar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell. He received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998) from Caltech. He has been on the Cornell faculty since 1998 and the Cornell Tech faculty since 2012, where his group conducts research on self-timed systems. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, nine best paper awards, eight teaching awards, and was named to MIT technology review's top 35 young innovators under 35 for contributions to low power microprocessor design. His work includes the design and implementation of a number of self-timed VLSI chips including the first high-performance asynchronous microprocessor, the first microprocessor for sensor networks, the first asynchronous dataflow FPGA, the first radiation hardened SRAM-based FPGA, and the first deterministic large-scale neuromorphic architecture. He has served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate studies in Engineering, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell Tech, and the Associate Dean for Research at Cornell Tech. He founded Achronix Semiconductor to commercialize high-performance asynchronous FPGAs.

Shorter Bio: Rajit Manohar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell. He received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998) from Caltech. He has been on the Cornell faculty since 1998 and the Cornell Tech faculty since 2012, where his group conducts research on self-timed systems. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, nine best paper awards, eight teaching awards, and was named to MIT technology review's top 35 young innovators under 35 for contributions to low power microprocessor design.