Faculty

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering

W323 Westgate
University Park, PA

Email vxn9@psu.edu
Phone 814-863-0392

Areas of Expertise

Field Programmable Gate Arrays Computer Science
Energy Consumption Computer Science
Ferroelectric Field-effect Transistor (FeFET) Keyphrases
Transistor Computer Science
Energy Consumption Keyphrases
In-memory Keyphrases
Power Consumption Computer Science
Caching Keyphrases

Revisiting Pebble Games for Modeling and Efficient Use of Disaggregated Memory Systems
Anusha Devulapally, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Bruno Jacob, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Andres Marquez, Jan 29 2026, In: MEMSYS 2025 - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems
Date: Jan 29 2026

FPGA-based accelerator for adaptive banded event alignment in nanopore sequencing data analysis
Yilin Feng, Zheyu Li, Gulsum Gudukbay Akbulut, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Chita R. Das, Dec 2025, In: BMC bioinformatics
Date: Dec 2025

Demonstration of high-reconfigurability and low-power strong physical unclonable function empowered by FeFET cycle-to-cycle variation and charge-domain computing
Taixin Li, Xinrui Guo, Franz Müller, Sukhrob Abdulazhanov, Xiaoyang Ma, Hongtao Zhong, Yongpan Liu, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Huazhong Yang, Kai Ni, Thomas Kämpfe, Xueqing Li, Dec 2025, In: Nature communications
Date: Dec 2025

DESTformer
Sadia Anjum Tumpa, Anusha Devulapally, Chonghan Lee, Chita R. Das, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Nov 26 2025, In:
Date: Nov 26 2025

NaviSense
Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Fuli Qiao, Nelson Daniel Troncoso Aldas, Yanpei Shi, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Laurent Itti, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Oct 22 2025, In: ASSETS 2025 - Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Date: Oct 22 2025

Multi-Dimensional ML-Pipeline Optimization in Cost-Effective Disaggregated Datacenter
Pingyi Huo, Anusha Devulapally, Hasan Al Maruf, Nandhini Chandramoorthy, Meena Arunachalam, Gulsum Gudukbay Akbulut, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Oct 17 2025, In: MICRO 2025 - 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Date: Oct 17 2025

Ferroelectric Memory Technology for Big Data Applications
Nikhil Shukla, Kai Ni, Sam Stevenson, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Oct 10 2025, In: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Date: Oct 10 2025

MLAM
Jihyun Ryoo, Gulsum Gudukbay Akbulut, Huaipan Jiang, Xulong Tang, Suat Akbulut, John Sampson, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Aug 27 2025, In: Performance Evaluation Review
Date: Aug 27 2025

Enhancing Parallelism in Commercial PIM DRAM with LUT-Based Design
Prapti Panigrahi, Rudra Biswas, Alexandar Devic, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Jun 29 2025, In: GLSVLSI 2025 - Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2025
Date: Jun 29 2025

KALAHash
Shu Zhao, Tan Yu, Xiaoshuai Hao, Wenchao Ma, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Apr 11 2025, In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Date: Apr 11 2025

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Leakage Current
Nam Sung Kim, Todd Austin, David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, Krisztián Flautner, Jie S. Hu, Mary Jane Irwin, Mahmut Kandemir, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dec 2003, In: Computer
Citations: 1,087

Design and use of SimplePower
W. Ye, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mahmut Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin, Jan 1 2000, In: Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
Citations: 362

Design and management of 3D chip multiprocessors using network-in-memory
Feihui Li, Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, Thomas Richardson, Yuan Xie, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mahmut Kandemir, 2006, In: Proceedings - 33rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture,ISCA 2006
Citations: 307

Analysis of error recovery schemes for networks on chips
Srinivasan Murali, Theocharis Theocharides, N. Vijaykrishnan, Mary Jane Irwin, Luca Benini, Giovanni De Micheli, Sep 2005, In: IEEE Design and Test of Computers
Citations: 284

ViChaR
Chrysostomos A. Nicopoulos, Dongkook Park, Jongman Kim, N. Vijaykrishnan, Mazin S. Yousif, Chita R. Das, 2006, In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-39
Citations: 271

Architecture exploration for ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors
Kaisheng Ma, Yang Zheng, Shuangchen Li, Karthik Swaminathan, Xueqing Li, Yongpan Liu, Jack Sampson, Yuan Xie, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mar 6 2015, In: 2015 IEEE 21st International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA
Citations: 237

A novel dimensionally-decomposed router for on-chip communication in 3D architectures
Jongman Kim, Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, Dongkook Park, Reetuparna Das, Yuan Xie, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Mazin S. Yousif, Chita R. Das, 2007, In: ISCA'07
Citations: 228

Temperature-dependent I-V characteristics of a vertical In <sub>0.53</sub>Ga<sub>0.47</sub> tunnel FET
Saurabh Mookerjea, Dheeraj Mohata, Theresa Mayer, Vijay Narayanan, Suman Datta, Jun 2010, In: IEEE Electron Device Letters
Citations: 225

Effective capacitance and drive current for tunnel FET (TFET) CV/I estimation
Saurabh Mookerjea, Ramakrishnan Krishnan, Suman Datta, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, 2009, In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Citations: 223

On enhanced miller capacitance effect □ in interband tunnel transistors
Saurabh Mookerjea, Ramakrishnan Krishnan, Suman Datta, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Oct 2009, In: IEEE Electron Device Letters
Citations: 222

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