She is the William Blakemore II Regents Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Ramachandran earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from Princeton University, with a dissertation Studies in VLSI Layout and Simulation supervised by Richard Lipton.
[1] She joined the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor in 1983, and moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 1989.
She was named the William Blakemore II Regents Professor in 1995.
[2] In 2013, the University of Delhi named Ramachandran as an honorary professor.