Biography
Preeti Ranjan Panda received his B. Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and his M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has previously worked at Texas Instruments, Bangalore, and the Advanced Technology Group at Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
His research interests are: Embedded Systems Design, CAD/VLSI, Post-silicon Debug/Validation, System Specification and Synthesis, Memory Architectures and Optimisations, Hardware/Software Codesign, and Low Power Design. He is the author of two books: Memory issues in Embedded Systems-on-chip: Optimizations and Exploration (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) and Power-efficient System Design (Springer, 2010). He received an Honourable Mention Award at the International Conference on VLSI Design, Bangalore, 1992. He is a recipient of an IBM Faculty Award (2007) and a Department of Science and Technology Young Scientist Award (2003).
Prof. Panda has served on the program committees and chaired sessions at several conferences in the areas of Embedded Systems and CAD/VLSI, including DAC, ICCAD, DATE, CODES+ISSS, etc. He is a present/past member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) , ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) , and International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP).