Viktor K. Prasanna (V. K. Prasanna Kumar) is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC). He is also a member of the NSF supported Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and an associate member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS) at USC. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Network Computing and Embedded Systems. He received his BS in Electronics Engineering from the Bangalore University, MS from the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science and Ph.D in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University.
Prasanna has published extensively and consulted for industries in the above areas. He is the Steering Committee Co-Chair of the International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) [merged IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS) and Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP)]. He is the Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. He was the founding chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
