Padma Raghavan

Padma Raghavan is a computer scientist who works as vice provost for research at Vanderbilt University.

Raghavan graduated in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.[1] She earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1991, with a dissertation on parallel algorithms for matrix decomposition supervised by Alex Pothen.[2] She worked at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then returned as a faculty member to Penn State in 2000. At Penn State, she became a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering, associate vice president for research, and director of strategic initiatives. She moved to Vanderbilt as vice provost in 2016.[3]

In 2002, Raghavan won a Maria Goeppert Mayer Distinguished Scholar award, funding her to visit Argonne National Laboratory.[4] She was a Computing Research Association CRA-W Distinguished Lecturer in 2010.[5] She became a fellow of the IEEE in 2013.[3]

Raghavan's husband, mathematician Steve Simpson, moved with her from Penn State to Vanderbilt.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae (PDF), 2015, retrieved 2016-05-06.
  2. ↑ Padma Raghavan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 3 Moran, Melanie (December 2015), "Vanderbilt names Padma Raghavan as vice provost for research", Research news @ Vanderbilt (Vanderbilt University), retrieved 2016-05-06.
  4. ↑ "On the move", Chicago Tribune, March 5, 2002.
  5. ↑ Padma Raghavan Distinguished Lecture Series, Computing Research Association, October 12, 2010, retrieved 2016-05-06.

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