Raghavendra Pothukuchi
Assistant Professor, Beginning July 2025
William R. Kenan Jr. Fellow
Ph.D. 2020, Illinois. Computer architecture and systems, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), quantum computing, brain-inspired AI hardware, cognitive modeling, formal control, energy and power efficiency, security, machine learning, datacenters and cloud, compilers.
Biography
Raghav’s vision is to build computer systems that connect natural intelligence with artificial intelligence, advancing the brain sciences, healthcare, and computing. His research is on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), quantum and classical frameworks to accelerate cognitive models, and biologically inspired computer architectures. Prior to UNC, he was an Associate Research Scientist and an NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow at Yale University with Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Jonathan D. Cohen (Princeton, neuroscience). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with Josep Torrellas, and a B.E. (Hons.) in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) in Pilani, India. Raghav has received several awards for his work, including the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists by The New York Academy of Sciences, selection as a young researcher at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, rising star in computer architecture, a Best Paper award at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), two IEEE Micro Top Picks in Computer Architecture selections, a Best Paper nomination at the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), and other honors by ACM, IEEE, UIUC, and BITS Pilani.