Nagarajan Ranganathan received the B.E. (Honors) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli, University of Madras, India, 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, Orlando in 1988. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa.During 1998-99, he was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso.

His research interests include VLSI System Design, Design Automation, Energy and Power Optimization, Biomedical Information Processing, Crisis Management and Homeland Security Applications, Computer Architecture, and Parallel Computing. He has developed many special purpose VLSI systems for computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, data compression and signal processing applications. He has published over 200 papers in reputed journals and conferences and is a co-owner of five U.S. patents.

Dr. Ranganathan is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He served on the editorial boards for the journals: Pattern Recognition (1993-97), VLSI Design (1994-present), IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (1995-97), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (1997-99), and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1997-00). He was the chair of the IEEE Computer Society technical Committee on VLSI during 1997-01. He served as the steering committee chair of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems during 2001-02 and is serving as the Editor-in-Chief for 2003-04. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 2002 for his contributions to algorithms and architectures for VLSI Systems. Recently, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award at the University of South Florida, Tampa.