Ananth Kalyanaraman has been named director of the WSU’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Kalyanaraman has served as interim director of the school for the past year. He is a professor and Boeing Centennial Chair in computer science and holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is the director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture-funded Institute for Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support (AgAID Institute). He holds affiliate faculty positions in the Molecular Plant Sciences Graduate Program and the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health.
With WSU since 2006, he has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has received about $43.5 million in funding. His research interests include bioinformatics and computational biology; parallel algorithms and applications; AI for agriculture; and combinatorial pattern matching and graph algorithms. He is well-known in the international bioinformatics and high-performance computing research communities.
Kalyanaraman is a recipient of a Department of Energy Early Career award. He was also named the Voiland College of Engineering of Architecture’s Outstanding Researcher in 2019. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in Nagpur, India, and a doctoral degree from Iowa State University.
Kalyanaraman replaces Partha Pande, who has recently been named dean of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.
