Nagarajan Ranganathan

Nagarajan Ranganathan (30 Mar 1961 – 25 October 2018) was a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa, United States.

[2] He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 2002 for his contributions to algorithms and architectures for VLSI systems.

degree with honors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli), formerly affiliated University of Madras, India and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, Orlando in 1988.

For a brief period, he was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso during 1998–99.

He has co-authored over 295 papers in refereed journals and conferences, five book chapters and co-owns eight U.S. patents and two pending.

Ranganathan at ISVLSI 2012 with some of his former students including Saraju Mohanty and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan . [ 5 ]