Global Partnerships and Programs Directory

Vijay Raghunathan is the Vice President of Global Partnerships and Programs and oversees the international initiatives of the university. He is also the Director of Semiconductor Education at Purdue and co-founded Purdue’s Semiconductor Degrees Program, the university’s flagship semiconductor workforce initiative that has received wide recognition as a model for the nation in addressing the urgent semiconductor workforce challenge. He is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he leads the Embedded Systems and IoT Lab. His research interests include edge computing, embedded systems, and wearable and implantable electronics. Professor Raghunathan is an accomplished researcher with a number of award-winning research innovations that have been translated into industry. He is most proud of the exceptional graduates from his research group who are now consequential change makers in academia and industry. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.