Malathi Veeraraghavan (July 11, 1962 – May 11, 2020) was an Indian and American electrical engineer specializing in

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s, including

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networks,

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s, and

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. She worked as a researcher for

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and as a professor at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...

Life and work

Veeraraghavan was born on July 11, 1962, and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from

IIT Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has ...

in 1984. She went to Duke University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1988. Her dissertation, ''Modeling and Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Multiple Processor Systems'', was supervised by

Kishor S. Trivedi Kishor Shridharbhai Trivedi is an Indian-American computer scientist who is currently the Hudson Chaired Professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. Education Kishor S. Trivedi was born in India. He grad ...

. She became a researcher and member of the technical staff of

, starting in 1988 in

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and moving in 1992 to

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. Her work there involved the development of distributed call processing technology for

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services. She was named a distinguished member of the technical staff in 1994. In 1999 she returned to academia as an associate professor at

Brooklyn Polytechnic The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United St ...

(now part of

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). She moved to the University of Virginia in 2003, as the founding director of a new graduate program in computer engineering, jointly offered by the departments of computer science and electrical and computer engineering. She was promoted to full professor in 2007. She died on May 11, 2020.

Recognition

Veeraraghavan was named an

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, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to control-plane architectures, signal protocols and hybrid networks".

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