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Ashok Krishnamurthy

OSC Senior Director of Research

Ashok K. Krishnamurthy, Ph.D. is the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Senior Director of Research and is an associate professor in The Ohio State University (OSU) Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

Krishnamurthy conducts research in signal/image processing, high performance computing, parallel high level language applications and computational models of hearing.

In the past, he served as the academic lead for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program in the Integrated Modeling and Test area. He has designed and provided numerous training courses for the DoD User Groups on all aspects of the MATLAB programming language.

On an entrepreneurial leave of absence from OSU, Krishnamurthy started a design center in Dublin, Ohio for Ecrio Inc., a Silicon Valley startup. He led a team of engineers at the design center developing wireless and handheld communication applications.

As a consultant, he has worked on the development of micro-controller and microprocessor based products, and has assisted in the development of strategic plans to introduce Application-Specific Standard products for multimedia and telephony applications such as speech coders, caller-ID receivers etc.

He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India in 1979. He received his master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Florida in 1981 and 1983, respectively.

Areas of Expertise
America competitiveness initiatives
Bioinformatics
Blue Collar Computing
Cyberinfrastructure
Data exploitation
Materials science applications of HPC
National Innovation Act of 2008
Remote instrumentation
Signal image processing
Software development

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