Member Profile
N. Ranganathan
About Me
Nagarajan “Ranga” Ranganathan (S’81-M’88-
SM’92-F’02) received the BE (honors) degree in
electrical and electronics engineering from the
Regional Engineering College, National Institute
of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, University of Madras,
India, 1983, and the PhD degree in
computer science from the University of Central
Florida, Orlando, in 1988. He is a distinguished
university professor of computer science and
engineering at the University of South Florida,
Tampa. During 1998-1999, he was a professor of electrical and computer
engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research interests
include VLSI circuit and system design, VLSI design automation,
multimetric optimization in hardware and software systems, biomedical
information processing, computer architecture, and parallel computing.
He has developed many special purpose VLSI circuits and systems for
computer vision, image and video processing, pattern recognition, data
compression, and signal processing applications. He has coauthored
more than 225 papers in refereed journals and conferences, four book
chapters, and co-owns six US patents and two pending. He has edited
three books titled VLSI Algorithms and Architectures: Fundamentals and
VLSI Algorithms and Architectures: Advanced Concepts, IEEE CS
Press, 1993, VLSI for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence,
World Scientific Publishers, 1995, and coauthored a book titled Low
Power High Level Synthesis for Nanoscale CMOS Circuits, Springer,
June 2008. He was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 2002 for his
contributions to algorithms and architectures for VLSI systems. He is a
member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Circuits and Systems
Society, and the VLSI Society of India. He has served on the editorial
boards for the journals: Pattern Recognition (1993-1997), VLSI Design
(1994-present), IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (1995-1997), IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems (1997-1999), IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1997-2000), and ACM
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (2007-2009).
He was the chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
VLSI during 1997-2001. He served on the steering committee of the IEEE
Transactions on VLSI Systems during 1999-2001, the steering committee
chair during 2002-2003 and the editor-in-chief for two consecutive
terms during 2003-2007. He served as the program cochair for
ICVLSID ’94, ISVLSI ’96, ISVLSI ’05, and ICVLSID ’08, and as a general
cochair for ICVLSID ’95, IWVLSI ’98, ICVLSID ’98, ISVLSI ’05, and
ISVLSI ’09. He has served on technical program committees of
international conferences including ICCD, ICPP, IPPS, SPDP, ICHPC,
HPCA, GLSVLSI, ASYNC, ISQED, ISLPED, CAMP, ISCAS, MSE, and
ICCAD. He received the USF Outstanding Research Achievement
Award in 2002, the USF President’s Faculty Excellence Award in 2003,
the USF Theodore-Venette Askounes Ashford Distinguished Scholar
Award in 2003, the SIGMA XI Scientific Honor Society Tampa Bay
Chapter Outstanding Faculty Researcher Award in 2004, and the
Distinguished University Professor honorific title and the university gold
medallion honor in 2007. He was a corecipient of the Best Paper Awards
at the International Conference on VLSI Design in 1995, 2004, and 2006,
and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Transactions on VLSI
Systems in 2009.
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