Padma Raghavan

Padma Raghavan is a computer scientist who works as vice provost for research at Vanderbilt University.

Padma Raghavan
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsVanderbilt 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]

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

References
  1. Curriculum vitae (PDF), 2015, retrieved 2016-05-06.
  2. Padma Raghavan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 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.
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