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Princeton University names two Indian-origin faculty members
Abhishek Bhattacharjee has been appointed as a professor in computer science and Ravi Nath as an assistant professor in molecular biology, with their respective tenures starting next year.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Sun, 07, Dec 2025
- 23:54 EST
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Abhishek Bhattacharjee (left) and Ravi Nath (right) / Yale University and Princeton University
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has named Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Ravi Nath in their appointment of eight faculty members, including three full professors and five assistant professors.
Bhattacharjee has been appointed as a professor in computer science, specializing in computer architecture, and his tenure will begin on September 1, 2026.
Bhattacharjee has earned a Ph.D. from Princeton and a B.Eng. from McGill University. He will join Princeton as a professor from Yale University, where he has taught since 2019, most recently as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science.
Previously, he has also taught at Rutgers University from 2010 to 2018 and was a C.V. Starr Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute from 2017 to 2019.
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Bhattacharjee’s research work has been integrated into commercial operating systems, chips, and microprocessors produced by companies including NVIDIA and Meta. His research has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Meta, and Intel, among many others.
He has been the recipient of an NSF Career Award in 2013 and an ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award in 2023. He served as associate editor of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems from 2021 to 2022.
Bhattacharjee is the author of over 70 journal, conference, and workshop papers and a textbook, “Architectural and Operating System Support for Virtual Memory” (2017), co-authored with NVIDIA scientist Daniel Lustig.
Ravi Nath will be joining Princeton as an assistant professor in molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics in July 2026.
Nath, who specializes in the genetics of aging and neurobiology of aging, holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.
He studies longevity in the killifish using quantitative biology approaches and in vivo functional genetic screens of vertebrate aging and neurodegeneration.
The six other appointees approved by the Princeton University Board of Trustees are Will Dobbie, Crystal Yang, Claire Bedbrook, Chris Hamilton, Kaiyi Jiang, and Ewin Tang.
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