Biography

Binoy Ravindran is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bradley Senior Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech, where he leads the Systems Software Research Group. His research is in computer systems, with a focus on security, performance, energy-efficiency, and timeliness, spanning the subdisciplines of concurrent, heterogeneous, distributed, and real-time computing. His early work focused on real-time computing using the (non-traditional) notion of time/utility functions, pioneered in the Alpha real-time operating system. These results influenced software standards including Real-Time CORBA 2.0's Dynamic Scheduling specification and the (failed) JSR-50/Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java.

Together with his students, postdocs, research faculty members, and collaborators, Prof. Ravindran has published more than 340 papers, which have been honored with nine best paper awards or nominations. He has mentored 11 research assistant professors, 25 postdoctoral scholars, and 26 PhD students, 18 of whom are tenured or tenure-track faculty members at universities including Edinburgh, Houston, Illinois-Chicago, Lehigh, Manchester, Penn State, and Twente. Prof. Ravindran is a two-time recipient of the Virginia Tech Engineering Dean’s Award of Excellence in Research (2020 and 2026), an ACM Distinguished Scientist, IEEE CS Distinguished Contributor, ACM Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Distinguished Visitor, and a US Office of Naval Research Faculty Fellow at the US Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and previously served in the same role at journals including ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and IEEE Design & Test.