Arijit Raychowdhury, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair at Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s (SRC) Aristotle Award honoring prominent educators.
First presented in 1995, it recognizes faculty whose “deep commitment to the educational experience of students has had a profound and continuing impact on their professional performance and, consequently, a significant impact for members over a long period of time.”
With a BS in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, the Indian American professor is just the second Georgia Tech faculty member to receive the honor,
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“Any credit here really belongs to the students,” Raychowdhury said. “Their curiosity, resilience, and willingness to dive into hard, unfamiliar problems are what make this kind of recognition possible in the first place. Watching them grow into researchers and engineers in their own right has been the most rewarding part of my career by far.”
Raychowdhury, who joined the ECE faculty in 2013 and became chair in 2021, leads one of the nation’s largest and highest-ranked electrical and computer engineering programs. Under his leadership, the School has continued to expand its impact in education, research, and workforce development.
His teaching spans foundational and advanced topics in integrated circuits, VLSI design, and embedded systems, combining theory and hands-on applications to prepare students for research and industry careers.
Raychowdhury’s own research sits at the frontier of energy-efficient and resilient computing, with contributions spanning energy-efficient integrated circuit design, power management for electronic systems, AI hardware accelerators, and emerging directions such as cryogenic and embodied AI silicon.
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As the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair, Raychowdhury has advanced new models for industry engagement in engineering education. This includes ECE’s Curriculum Partnership Initiative, which brings industry expertise directly into the curriculum through collaborative course development, industry-led instruction, and project-based learning opportunities.
Additionally, he serves as director of the Center for the Co-Design of Cognitive Systems (CoCoSys), one of six centers within the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0), an SRC-led public-private partnership with DARPA that supports hundreds of students across multiple universities.
Raychowdhury holds more than 27 U.S. and international patents and has published over 250 articles in journals and refereed conferences. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) and the site director for the DoD-sponsored SCALE Workforce development program in SoC Design.
He has been named a Fellow of the IEEE and the National Academy of Innovators and won the SRC Technical Excellence Award in 2021.