Dhireesha Kudithipudi, PhD

Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

In 2019, UT San Antonio embarked on a cluster hiring initiative in AI, which resulted in the hiring of seven researchers in the fields of construction science, information systems and cyber security, electrical and computer engineering, and computer science. Dhireesha Kudithipudi was recruited to lead and coordinate the university's efforts in AI initiatives across colleges and departments as the Founding Director of the MATRIX AI Consortium at UT San Antonio.

Kudithipudi is also the Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science at UT San Antonio. She most recently served as professor, graduate program chair in the Department of Computer Engineering, director of the Neuromorphic AI Lab and the director of the Center for Human-Aware AI at the Rochester Institute of Technology. 

Over the past decade, her research team has paved a path to creating artificial intelligence platforms inspired by the brain. Her research lab developed neuromemristive AI platforms with continual learning capabilities.  

Her current research interests are in neuromorphic computing, brain inspired neural algorithms, novel computing substrates (memristors and 3D-ICs), energy efficient machine intelligence, and AI-on-Chip.  

Kudithipudi received her BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nagarjuna University, MS in Computer Engineering from Wright State University, and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT San Antonio in 2006.