Presenter

Viktor Prasanna received the BS degree in electronics engineering from Bangalore University, the MS degree from the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. He is Charles Lee Powell chair in engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of computer science at the University of Southern California (USC). His research interests include high performance computing, parallel and distributed systems, and reconfigurable computing. He serves as the director of the Center for Energy Informatics at USC. He served as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers during 2003–06. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He was the founding chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. He is the steering chair of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) and is the steering chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC). He received the 2009 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award from the Pennsylvania State University, the 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University. He received the W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE Computer Society, in 2015 for his contributions to reconfigurable computing. He is a fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, and the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is an elected member of Academia Europaea.