Dr. Ram K. Krishnamurthy is Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation, Intel Labs, Office of the CTO. In this role, he is responsible for research in high performance energy efficient integrated circuits for future CPUs, GPUs, AI processors and accelerators across data center to edge computing platforms. He has 27+ years of experience and deep expertise in Systems-on-Chip (SOC) design in leading-edge semiconductor technologies. Since 1997, he led circuit technology research and made major contributions to Intel data center, client, GPU, FPGA, edge IoT, and AI products portfolio spanning twelve generations of silicon processes.
Dr. Krishnamurthy has filed more than 350 patents and holds over 200 issued patents. He has published 200 papers in premier IEEE conferences and journals. He is a recipient of two Intel Achievement Awards (Intel Corporation’s highest technical award), Intel Labs Gordon Moore Award, Intel inventor awards for highest number of patents filed and issued, Distinguished paper award from IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, Outstanding industry mentor award from Semiconductor Research Corporation, Best paper award from IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, Distinguished alumni award from State University of New York, Alumni recognition award from Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Technology Review TR35 innovator award. He was recognized as a top contributor in IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference’s 70 years publication history. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Krishnamurthy served as Chair of Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Advisory Board AMS-CSD. He was General Chair and Technical Program Chair of IEEE International Systems-on-Chip Conference and is currently on the Steering Committee. He served as guest editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and on the technical program committees of ISSCC, CICC, ESSCIRC, and SOCC conferences. He was distinguished lecturer of IEEE Solid State Circuits Society and adjunct faculty of electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University, where he taught advanced VLSI design. He is a board member on various industry advisory boards. Dr. Krishnamurthy received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, in 1993, M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994, and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997.