Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan

Dr. Varadarajan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 2000. He is the Director of the Center for High-End Computing Systems at Virginia Tech and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Varadarajan is the recipient of the ComputerWorld Honors Award in the Science Category 2004, the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the New Century Technology Council Technology Innovation Award and a Faculty Fellow award from the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech.

In 2004, he was honored by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 100 (TR100) young innovators transforming technology. Dr. Varadarajan is the architect of System X, the 2200 processor System X supercomputer located at Virginia Tech.