Viktor Prasanna#
| Membership Number: | 6142 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.usc.edu/prasanna/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1609-8589 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Distinguished Professor, Beihang University, PRC (Honorary appointment)
- 2016 - 2017 Division Director, Computer Engineering Division, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
- 2010 - present - Director, Center for Energy Informatics, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
- 2010 - 2012 - Associate Director, Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft), Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
- 2008 - 2015 - Executive Director, USC Infosys Center for Advanced Software Technologies (CAST)
- 2006 - present - Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
- 2000 - present - Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California (Courtesy appointment)
- 1994 - present - Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
- 1998 - present - Associate Member, Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS), University of Southern California
- 1994 - 1998 - Director, Computer Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering Systems, University of Southern California
Fields of Scholarship
- FPGA accelerators
- Big data applications
- Parallel computing
- Reconfigurable computing
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
- October 2018 - present Distinguished Professor, Beihang University, Beijing, China
- 2017 Use-Inspired Research Award, USC Viterbi School of Eng, for distinguished research on problems with practical significance
- December 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award, “For Outstanding Contributions to Research and Education in Parallel Computation,” University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India
- April 2015 W. Wallace McDowell Award, “For Fundamental Algorithmic and Application Specific Architectural Contributions to Reconfigurable Computing,” IEEE Computer Society
- April 2010 Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Computer Society
- 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2009 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award, Pennsylvania State University
- 2008 Outstanding Achievement Award, 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP ’09), in Recognition of His Leadership and Outstanding Research Contribution to Field of Reconfig. Compg.
- 2008 Fellow of the ACM
- 2007 Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
- 2007 Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Geneva
- 2005 Okawa Foundation Award
- 1996 Fellow of the IEEE
