Prof V Rajaraman Chair

About

The Prof V Rajaraman Chair Professorship has been established to promote excellence in the EECS division at IISc, honoring the distinguished academic contributions of Professor V Rajaraman, who taught and had a great influence on Rajagopalan Srinivasan (ME 1988 (ECE)), who has established this chair professorship. Dr Srinivasan has also supported several other initiatives at three departments of IISc – Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE), Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) and Computer Science and Automation (CSA). In ECE, he has established a PhD medal that recognizes the ‘Best PhD Thesis in Devices, Circuits & System’.

Nomination Procedure

• The Chair would be awarded to a nominated faculty member with stellar performance. The selection committee for this purpose will be a national level committee that will be headed by a Divisional Chair and will include two distinguished experts external to IISc. Each term of the award is of three years duration. Additional terms could be awarded (in exceptional cases) to the same candidate faculty (if the faculty member gets nominated again) based on the recommendation of the selection committee.
• The nominator should be a Full Professor at the Institute.
• It will be awarded to a Professor in the EECS division.
  ln case of no suitable candidates found by the selection committee at the Professor level, fresh applications will be invited from Associate Professors with a minimum of three years of service. The quantum of support in this case will be lower for the entire term of the position.

Benefits

• The selected incumbent will occupy the Chair for a period of three years. A monthly top-up salary and an annual research grant will be provided, with the quantum of support being proportional to the faculty’s position.
• The Chair Associate Professor/Professor will be required to submit a brief annual report to the Director, IISc on the research activities conducted with the financial support received.

Rajagopalan Srinivasan

“Hi, I’m Rajagopalan Srinivasan from ME batch 1988 from ECE department and my professors were Professor BS Sonde from ECE department and Professor B Rajaraman from Computer Science Department, and I worked on my ME project on VLSI design.

After IISc, I went on to do PhD at the University of Southern California, graduated in ’94, and I started my career at the Sun Microsystems in the Bay Area, and then I relocated to New Jersey because my wife is a physician and she started her residency program in New Jersey. I worked in Lucent Bell Labs for four years and then I joined Intel in New Jersey. Then I moved back to Intel Folsom, and in 2009 I joined NVIDIA, which was a very small company during that time, and eventually I retired from NVIDIA last month.”