Dhireesha Kudithipudi, PhD

Director of MATRIX AI Consortium & NUAI Lab

Professor, Departments of ECE/CS, UTSA

In Fall 2019, Dhireesha started as a Robert F McDermott Endowed Chair in Engineering and professor with joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is also the founding Director of the MATRIX AI Consortium for Human Well-Being. Before that, she has enjoyed 13 years working at Rochester Institute of Technology as a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Graduate Program Chair, and founding director of the Center for Human-Aware AI (CHAI).

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She is interested in designing the next-generation AI systems that can solve problems similar to humans in the most energy efficient way. Her team has been paving a path for bio-inspired AI systems and accelerators over the past decade. Her current research interests are in neuromorphic computing, brain-inspired algorithms, novel computing substrates (eg: memristors), energy efficient machine intelligence, and AI accelerators. She has led several technical workshops and tutorials in neuromorphic computing and AI and panelist at DOD & AFOSR roundtables for Neuromorphic Computing. Her teams research was recently featured in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

From her post as director of the Matrix: AI Consortium For Human Well-Being, she has pulled together researchers from various academic disciplines from UTSA, UT Health San Antonio, Southwest Research Institute and Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Their mission: “To conduct transformative research in the design, use, and deployment of A.I. that enhances human life, and to offer rigorous research training opportunities that transcend disciplinary boundaries”. Matrix has also partnered with MISI Dreamport and BigBear.ai, both from Maryland, to run a symposium on A.I. and quantum computing to discuss how the technologies will fundamentally change how people interact with data.