Information
Membership Number: FCA3533
Membership Type: Fellowship
Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences
Corresponding Email: ***sanna@usc.edu
Homepage(s): https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Prasanna/Viktor
Present and Previous Positions
Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering, University of Southern California.
Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California.
Professor of Computer Science, School of Advanced Computing, University of Southern California.
Director, Center for Energy Informatics (CEI), University of Southern California.
Associate Member, Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS), University of Southern California.
Leader of Integrated Optimizations efforts at the USC-Chevron Center of Excellence for Research and Academic Training on Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft).
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (from 2011).
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Computers (2002–2006).
Steering Committee Co-Chair, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).
Steering Committee Chair, International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC).
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Parallel and Distributed Computing; High-Performance Computing; Reconfigurable Computing; Computer Architecture; FPGA and Accelerator Systems; Embedded and Cloud Computing; Data Science and Machine Learning Systems; Smart Grid and Smart Energy Systems; Energy Informatics
Professor Prasanna’s research spans a wide arc of modern computing systems research, but with a coherent intellectual center: the design of efficient computational methods and architectures for demanding, data-intensive, and performance-critical problems. His work has long been associated with parallel algorithms, heterogeneous architectures, configurable and reconfigurable systems, and the use of hardware-software co-design to achieve major gains in performance and efficiency. In more recent years, these interests have also extended into machine learning systems, edge and cloud platforms, and intelligent infrastructures.
A particularly distinctive feature of his career is the breadth of application domains to which he has brought advanced computing methods. In addition to foundational contributions to reconfigurable and parallel computing, he has led or helped lead important work in smart energy systems, smart grid optimization, and energy informatics at USC. This combination of theoretical, architectural, and application-oriented research gives his profile an unusually integrated character and helps explain his standing across several overlapping research communities.
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
Member, Academia Europaea.
Fellow of the IEEE.
Fellow of the ACM.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society (2015).
USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship (2024).
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Science (2019).
Distinguished Alumnus Award, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University.
Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award, Pennsylvania State University (2009).
Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Geneva (2007).
Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Computer Society (2010).
Use-Inspired Research Award, USC Viterbi School of Engineering (2017).
Selected Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4FQXSP8AAAAJ
Other Information
Prasanna CV Feb 2026.pdf