Dr. Dharanidhar Dang
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, College of AI, Cyber and Computing (CAICC), UTSA
Dr. Dang directs LUCENT, the Lab for Unconventional Computing using Emerging Nano-Technologies. His research builds sustainable AI hardware from the device level up — silicon photonics, memristive memories, and AI-driven hardware co-design. Before UTSA he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego working at the intersection of computing and bioinformatics, with publications in Nature Communications Biology and Frontiers in Physiology. He holds four patents and publishes regularly at DAC, ICCAD, ICCD, DATE, VLSID, GLSVLSI, ISVLSI, and IEEE Transactions on Computers.
- PhD, Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2018 (advisor: Dr. Rabi Mahapatra)
- B.Tech, Instrumentation & Electronics, CET Bhubaneswar, 2010
