Rajit Manohar

Rajit Manohar is the John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of computer science at Yale. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from Caltech. Manohar joined the Yale faculty in 2017, and his group conducts research on the design, analysis, and implementation of self-timed systems. He is the recipient of ten best paper awards, nine teaching awards, and was named to MIT Technology Review’s top 35 young innovators under 35 for contributions to low-power microprocessor design.

Manohar’s work includes the design and implementation of a number of self-timed VLSI (very large-scale integration) chips including the first high-performance asynchronous microprocessor, the first microprocessor for sensor networks, the first asynchronous dataflow FPGA (field programmable gate array), the first radiation hardened SRAM-based FPGA, and the first deterministic large-scale neuromorphic architecture. Prior to Yale, he was professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell. Manohar founded the Computer Systems Lab at both Cornell and Yale. He has served as the associate dean for research and graduate studies at Cornell Engineering, the associate dean for academic affairs at Cornell Tech, and the associate dean for research at Cornell Tech. He founded Achronix Semiconductor to commercialize high-performance asynchronous FPGAs.