Priya Panda

Priya Panda

Dr. Priya Panda is a Lloyd F. Hunt Early Career Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Southern California. Prior to her appointment at USC, she was an Assistant Professor at Yale University in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department from 2019-2025. She has been a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google DeepMind in 2024-25. Her research interests lie in Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Efficient AI/ML, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Networks. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2019 and undergraduate degree from B.I.T.S. Pilani, India, in 2013. During her internship at Intel Labs in 2017, she developed large scale spiking neural network algorithms for benchmarking the Loihi chip. She is the recipient of the 2019 Amazon Research Award, 2022 Google Research Scholar Award, 2022 DARPA Riser Award, 2023 NSF CAREER Award, 2023 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the inaugural 2024 Purdue Engineering 38 under 38 award, 2025 Google Systems and ML Award, 2025 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award and 2025 DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award. She has also received the 2022 ISLPED Best Paper Award, 2022 IEEE Brain Community Best Paper Award, 2024 ASP-DAC Best Paper Nomination and 2025 IEEE TCAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award.

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    University of Southern California
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    Lloyd F. Hunt Early Career Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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