Rajit Manohar

Brief Bio: Rajit Manohar is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell, where his group conducts research on asynchronous design. He received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998) from Caltech, and has been on the Cornell faculty since 1998. He is the receipient of an NSF CAREER award, three best paper awards, five teaching awards, and was named to MIT technology review's top 35 young innovators under 35. He was one of the principal designers of MiniMIPS, the first high-performance asynchronous microprocessor. His group has designed and fabricated several asynchronous VLSI systems, including the first microprocessor for sensor networks, an event-based asynchronous chip-multiprocessor, and a pipeline-configurable asynchronous FPGA. He also helped start Achronix Semiconductor, a company developing high-performance FPGAs.