Tushar Krishna is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Institute of Technology, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. He held the ON Semiconductor (Endowed) Junior Professorship in ECE at Georgia Tech from 2019-2021. He has also been a visiting professor at MIT EECS + CSAIL, Harvard University CS and a researcher at Intel’s VSSAD group. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2014), a M.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2009), and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (2007).
Dr. Krishna’s research spans computer architecture, interconnection networks, networks-on-chip (NoC), and AI/ML accelerator systems – with a focus on optimizing data movement in modern computing platforms. His research is funded via multiple awards from NSF, DARPA, IARPA, SRC (including JUMP2.0), Department of Energy, Intel, Google, Meta/Facebook, Qualcomm and TSMC. His papers have been cited over 21,000 times. He has been a recipient of multiple IEEE Micro’s Top Picks and best paper awards across computer architecture and design-automation conferences. He is part of the Halls of Fame of all three of the premier computer architecture conferences: MICRO, HPCA and ISCA. He was a recipient of the “Under 40 Innovators Award” at DAC in 2025.
Dr. Krishna currently serves as an Associate Director for the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) – a cross-disciplinary research center at Georgia Tech. He is also a co-chair of the Chakra Execution Traces and Benchmarks Working group within ML Commons.
