Bio:

Ram K. Krishnamurthy is a Senior Principal Engineer with the Microprocessor Technology Labs, Corporate Technology Group, of Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, where he heads the high-performance and low-voltage circuits research group. He received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1998. He has been with Intel Corporation since 1998.
He serves as an adjunct faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Oregon State and Purdue Universities. He holds 72 issued patents and has published over 75 conference/journal papers and 2 book chapters on high-performance energy-efficient microprocessor design. He serves as Intel´s representative on the SRC Design Sciences Task Force and on the program committees of the ISSCC, CICC, and SOCC conferences. He served as the Technical Program Chair/General Chair for the 2005/2006 IEEE International Systems-on-Chip Conference.
He has received the 2002 Outstanding Industry Mentor Award from SRC, Intel Awards for most patents filed in 2001 and most patents issued in 2003, and the MIT Technology Review´s TR35 Innovator Award in 2006. He has received two Intel Achievement Awards, in 2004 and 2008, for the development and technology transfer of novel high-performance execution core arithmetic circuits and special-purpose hardware encryption accelerators. His research interests are in high-performance/low-power data-path, DSP and on-chip interconnect circuits. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.