Vijay Janapa Reddi is an Associate Professor at Harvard University.

Vijay Janapa Reddi is an Associate Professor at Harvard University, Vice President, and Founding Member of MLCommons (mlcommons.org), a nonprofit organization devoted to accelerating machine learning (ML) innovation for all. He co-chairs the MLCommons Research organization and sits on the board of directors of MLCommons. He co-led the development of the MLPerf Inference benchmark for IoT, mobile, edge, and datacenter applications.

Before moving to Harvard, he was an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He specializes in developing mobile and edge computing platforms, as well as the Internet of Things. His work is largely based on runtime systems, computer architecture, and applied machine learning methods.

Numerous accolades and awards have been awarded to Dr. Janapa-Reddi, including the Gilbreth Lecturer Honor from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2016, the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award (2016), the Intel Early Career Award (2013), the Google Faculty Research Awards in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2020, the Best Papers at the 2020 Design Automation Conference (DAC), the 2005 International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), and the 2009 International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). Additionally, he has won various honors and awards, including IEEE Top Picks in Computer Architecture (2006, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023). The MICRO and HPCA Halls of Fame include him (inducted in 2018 and 2019, respectively).

He is strongly devoted to expanding access to applied machine learning for STEM, diversity, and the application of AI for social good. To merge embedded systems and machine learning, he developed the Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) series on edX, a massive open online course (MOOC) that thousands of students worldwide can access and audit for free. Additionally, he oversaw the Austin Hands-on Computer Science (HaCS) program, which the Austin Independent School District used to teach CS to students in grades K-12.

Dr. Janapa-Reddi holds degrees in computer science from Harvard University, electrical and computer engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and computer engineering from Santa Clara University. Dr. Janapa-Reddi's life's passion is dedicated to helping individuals and teams succeed while making the world a better place, one bit at a time.