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Krishnamurthy retires after 26 years

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Ashok Krishnamurthy
Ashok Krishnamurthy, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has retired after 26 years of service to The Ohio State University. He has been named deputy director of Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

“Dr. Krishnamurthy has always worked to benefit the department,” says Robert Lee, chair of electrical and computer engineering. “In addition to his research, teaching and service, he went out of his way to develop strong collaborations between our department and the Ohio Supercomputer Center during his years there. I wish him well in his future career path and hope he will think about us as he develops national partners in his new position.”

Krishnamurthy conducts research in signal/image processing, high performance computing, parallel high-level language applications and computational models of hearing. He was one of six Ohio State faculty working to scale up the capabilities of fully autonomous vehicles so that they are capable of operating in mixed-traffic urban environments, with funding from a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Physical Systems program. He created a learning, probabilistic framework that analyzes vehicle data in order to deduce what the driver is going to do.

In addition to his role as a professor, Krishnamurthy was senior director of research at the Ohio Supercomputer Center and served as interim co-exective director of the center from 2009-2012.

In the past, he served as the academic lead for the U.S. Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program in the Integrated Modeling and Test area. He has designed and provided numerous training courses for the DoD User Groups on all aspects of the MATLAB programming language.

On an entrepreneurial leave of absence from Ohio State, Krishnamurthy started a design center in Dublin, Ohio, for Ecrio Inc., a Silicon Valley startup. He led a team of engineers at the design center developing wireless and handheld communication applications.

As a consultant, he has worked on the development of micro-controller and microprocessor based products and has assisted in the development of strategic plans to introduce Application-Specific Standard products for multimedia and telephony applications, such as speech coders, caller-ID receivers, etc.

Krishnamurthy received his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Florida in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1979 from the Indian Institute of Technology.
 
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