Rajit Manohar

Bio: Rajit Manohar is the John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Yale. He received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998) from Caltech. He has been on the Yale faculty since 2017, where his group conducts research on the design, analysis, and implementation of self-timed systems. He is the recipient of twelve best paper awards, nine 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. Most recently, his group developed the first true ASIC flow for asynchronous circuits. Prior to Yale, he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell. He founded the Computer Systems Lab at both Cornell and Yale. He has served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate studies at Cornell Engineering, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell Tech, the Associate Dean for Research at Cornell Tech, and the Deputy Dean for Research at Yale's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He founded Achronix Semiconductor to commercialize high-performance asynchronous FPGAs.

Shorter Bio: Rajit Manohar is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Yale. He received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998) from Caltech. His group conducts research on the design, analysis, and implementation of self-timed systems. He is the recipient of twelve best paper awards, nine teaching awards, and was named to MIT technology review's top 35 young innovators under 35 for contributions to low power microprocessor design.

Longer Bio: Rajit Manohar is the John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Yale. He received his B.S. (1994), M.S. (1995), and Ph.D. (1998) from Caltech. He joined the Yale faculty in January 2017, where his group conducts research on the design, analysis, and implementation of self-timed systems.

His work on high-performance systems includes the design and implementation of the first high-performance asynchronous microprocessor, and the design of a GHz-class asynchronous dataflow field-programmable gate array (FPGA) architecture. His work on fault-tolerant asynchronous systems includes the first radiation-hardened SRAM-based FPGA with self-correcting logic. His work on low power asynchronous systems includes the first event-driven microprocessor optimized for sensor networks, a low power data-driven GPS baseband processor, and low power floating-point arithmetic circuits. His work on the foundations of asynchronous circuits includes theory and methods for verification, synthesis, timing validation, and physical design. His group worked closely with IBM research to create the TrueNorth neuromorphic architecture, the first single-chip million neuron system and the first deterministic large-scale neuromorphic architecture. The project received the inaugural Misha Mahowald Prize for neuromorphic engineering, and the TrueNorth chip is now part of the Computer History Museum's collection. Most recently, his group developed the first true ASIC flow for asynchronous circuits.

He is the recipient of twelve best paper awards, nine teaching awards, and was named to MIT technology review's top 35 young innovators under 35 for contributions to low power microprocessor design. Prior to Yale, he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell. He founded the Computer Systems Lab at both Cornell and Yale. He has served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate studies at Cornell Engineering, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell Tech, the Associate Dean for Research at Cornell Tech, and the Deputy Dean for Research at Yale's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds over fifty patents, and co-founded Achronix Semiconductor to commercialize high-performance asynchronous FPGAs.

Bio for IEEE articles after IEEE munged it: Rajit Manohar received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1994, 1995, and 1998. From 1998 to 2016, he was a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow on the Faculty of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Since 2017, he has been with the Yale Faculty, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, where his group conducts research on the design, analysis, and implementation of self-timed systems. He is currently the John C. Malone Professor of electrical engineering and a Professor of computer science at Yale University. He founded the Computer Systems Lab at both Cornell University and Yale University. 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 field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the first radiation hardened SRAM-based FPGA, and the first deterministic large-scale neuromorphic architecture. His group recently developed the first true ASIC flow for asynchronous circuits. Dr. Manohar was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, twelve best paper awards, and nine teaching awards, and was named MIT Technology Review's Top 35 Young Innovators Under 35 for his contributions to the low-power microprocessor design.

 
  
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