Padma Raghavan
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Padma Raghavan is a computer scientist who works as vice provost for research at Vanderbilt University.
Raghavan graduated in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.[1] She earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1991, with a dissertation on parallel algorithms for matrix decomposition supervised by Alex Pothen.[2] She worked at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then returned as a faculty member to Penn State in 2000. At Penn State, she became a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering, associate vice president for research, and director of strategic initiatives. She moved to Vanderbilt as vice provost in 2016.[3]
In 2002, Raghavan won a Maria Goeppert Mayer Distinguished Scholar award, funding her to visit Argonne National Laboratory.[4] She was a Computing Research Association CRA-W Distinguished Lecturer in 2010.[5] She became a fellow of the IEEE in 2013.[3] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[6]
Raghavan's husband, mathematician Steve Simpson, moved with her from Penn State to Vanderbilt.[3]
