Biography

Tushar Krishna is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. He held the ON Semiconductor (Endowed) Junior Professorship in ECE from 2019–2021, and has been a visiting professor at MIT EECS + CSAIL and Harvard CS, and a researcher in Intel's VSSAD group. He earned his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT (2014), an M.S.E. from Princeton (2009), and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi (2007).

Krishna's research spans computer architecture, interconnection networks, networks-on-chip, and AI/ML accelerator systems — with a focus on optimizing data movement in modern computing platforms. His research has been funded by awards from NSF, DARPA, IARPA, SRC (JUMP 2.0), the Department of Energy, Intel, Google, Meta, Qualcomm and TSMC. His papers have been cited ~24,000 times, and he is a member of the Halls of Fame of all three premier computer architecture conferences — MICRO, HPCA, and ISCA.

Krishna won the 2026 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award “for outstanding contributions to architectures and modeling tools for large-scale AI systems,” and was a recipient of the “Under 40 Innovators Award” at DAC in 2025. At Georgia Tech, he has been honored by the “Roger P. Webb Outstanding Mid-career Faculty Award” and “Roger P. Webb Outstanding Junior Faculty Award” from the School of ECE in 2024 and 2021 respectively, the “Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Junior Teacher Award” in 2023, and the “Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award” in 2018.

Dr. Krishna currently serves as a Co-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. He served as Program Vice-Chair for ISCA 2023 and Program Co-Chair for MICRO 2026.

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Professional Service