Two Indian American professors, Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Ravi Nath, one specializing in computer architecture and the other specializing in the genetics of aging and neurobiology of aging, are set to join Princeton University faculty next year.
The Princeton University Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Bhattacharjee as full professor and Nath as assistant professor with six other new faculty members.
Bhattacharjee joins in computer science from Sept. 1, 2026, while Nath joins in molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics in July 2026, according to a university release.
Bhattacharjee comes to Princeton from Yale University, where he has taught since 2019, most recently as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science.
Prior to that, he taught at Rutgers University from 2010 to 2018 and was a C.V. Starr Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute from 2017 to 2019. Bhattacharjee’s industry engagements include work as a researcher in Intel’s VSSAD group and Strategic CAD Labs in 2007 and 2008.
His research interests include memory address translation, virtual memory, computer and operating systems and brain sciences. Bhattacharjee’s work has been integrated into commercial operating systems, chips and microprocessors produced by companies including Nvidia and Meta.
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His research has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Meta and Intel, among many others. He received an NSF Career Award in 2013 and an ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award in 2023. He served as associate editor of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems from 2021 to 2022.
He is the author of more than 70 journal, conference and workshop papers and a textbook, “Architectural and Operating System Support for Virtual Memory” (2017), co-authored with NVIDIA scientist Daniel Lustig. He holds three patents and has served on the program committees and presented at numerous conferences around the world.
Bhattacharjee earned a Ph.D. from Princeton and a B.Eng. from McGill University.
Nath, who specializes in the genetics of aging and neurobiology of aging, holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.