Vikram Jandhyala

Vikram Jandhyala is professor and chair of electrical engineering at UW and director of the applied computational engineering lab. He is the founder and chairman of Nimbic, Inc (formerly Physware), a cloud-based electronic design automation and electromagnetic simulation startup. His research interests include several aspects of large-scale simulation, physics-based computing algorithms, and electronic design automation. He has published approximately 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He received his BTech EE from IIT Delhi in 1993, and his MS and PhD in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He developed electromagnetic boundary element solvers at Ansoft Corporation, Pittsburgh, from 1998-2000 prior to joining UW in 2000. Honors include an NSF CAREER award, Chair’s award and Outstanding Research Advisor award at UWEE, a NASA inventor award, and graduate research awards from IEEE and UIUC. His research at UW has been funded by DARPA, NSF, NASA, SRC, INTEL, WRF, DoD, Air Force, Navy, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the SBIR program, and by several industrial grants.