Profile

Bipin Rajendran is a Reader in Engineering at King’s College London (KCL). He received a B. Tech degree from I.I.T. Kharagpur in 2000, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He was a Master Inventor and Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York during 2006-’12 and has held faculty positions in India and the US. His research focuses on building algorithms, devices, and systems for brain-inspired computing. He has co-authored 89 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, one monograph, one edited book, and 59 issued U.S. patents. He has also delivered 7 tutorials and 42 invited talks at top-tier universities and conferences. He is a recipient of the IBM Faculty Award (2019), IBM Research Division Award (2012), and IBM Technical Accomplishment Award (2010). He was elected a senior member of the US National Academy of Inventors in 2019. While he was a Researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (2006-’12), he was a Lead Investigator of the Phase 0 and Phase 1 of the DARPA SyNAPSE program. His research was supported by prestigious funding agencies, including the U.S. National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, and the Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Scientific Research, as well as by industries such as Intel, IBM, and Cisco.