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Padma Raghavan

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Padma Raghavan
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsVanderbilt University

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] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[6]

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

References

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  1. ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), 2015, retrieved 2016-05-06.
  2. ^ Padma Raghavan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b c 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.
  6. ^ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
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