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Vijay Janapa Reddi

Vijay Janapa Reddi is Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard, where his research spans computer architecture, machine learning systems, autonomous agents, and edge computing. He earned degrees at Santa Clara, Colorado, and Harvard, joined UT Austin's ECE faculty in 2011, and became a Harvard associate professor in 2019. His work includes MLPerf benchmarking, Harvard's TinyML certificate course, and the 2023 Adversarial Nibbler challenge for text-to-image safety. He received the Intel Early Career Award in 2013, the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award and National Academy of Engineering's Gilbreth Lecturer Honor in 2016, and was inducted into the MICRO and HPCA Halls of Fame in 2018 and 2019. An October 2026 development preview of Introduction to Machine Learning Systems presents AI engineering as a discipline for building intelligent systems for real-world use; he is Vice President and co-founder of MLCommons, oversees MLCommons Research, and is on sabbatical at ETH Zurich.

Works
295
Citations
14,195
h-index
45
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2003–2010

    Degrees at three universities

    He earns a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University in 2003, an MS from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD in computer science at Harvard in 2010.

  2. September 2011

    Joining Texas ECE

    In September 2011, he joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at The University of Texas at Austin.

  3. 2013–2019

    Research honors and halls of fame

    He receives the Intel Early Career Award in 2013. In 2016, the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award recognizes his contributions in mobile computing and resilient architectures, and he receives the National Academy of Engineering's Gilbreth Lecturer Honor. He enters the MICRO Hall of Fame in 2018 and the HPCA Hall of Fame in 2019.

  4. 2019

    Associate professor at Harvard

    He becomes an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard SEAS in January 2019.

  5. June 2019

    Describing MLPerf

    In June 2019, he describes MLPerf as a collaborative effort to build a fair benchmark for machine learning systems.

  6. August 2020

    Co-teaching TinyML

    Harvard SEAS announces its Tiny Machine Learning Professional Certificate Program in August 2020. Reddi co-teaches its course, which uses hands-on training with a TinyML kit and real-world application case studies.

  7. 2023

    Adversarial Nibbler

    He coauthors Adversarial Nibbler in 2023, a challenge that asks participants to crowdsource text-to-image failure modes and find safety vulnerabilities in current models.

  8. October 2026

    AI engineering book preview

    An October 2026 development preview of Introduction to Machine Learning Systems presents AI engineering as the discipline of building intelligent systems that operate in the real world, then develops its ML systems foundation on a single compute node.

  9. As of October 2026

    Gordon McKay Professor

    As of October 2026, he is the Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard and is on sabbatical at ETH Zurich. His research spans computer architecture, machine learning systems, autonomous agents, and edge computing. He serves as Vice President and co-founder of MLCommons, where he oversees the MLCommons Research organization and helped lead development of MLPerf, an industry-standard benchmark suite for evaluating machine learning systems at scale.

Career

  1. NowHarvard UniversityGordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering
  2. NowETH ZurichSabbatical visitor
  3. NowMLCommonsCo-founder
  4. NowMLCommonsVice President, overseeing MLCommons Research
  5. From 2019Harvard UniversityAssociate Professor of Electrical Engineering
  6. From 2011University of Texas at AustinFaculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

  1. 2010Harvard UniversityPhD in computer science
  2. 2003Santa Clara UniversityBS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  3. University of Colorado BoulderMS in Computer Engineering

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  1. Five new faculty join SEAS seas.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi receives the 2016 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award ece.utexas.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. UT ECE Welcomes Dr. Vijay Reddi to Faculty ece.utexas.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. Vijay Janapa Reddi | Harvard University pll.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Vijay Reddi - The Salata Institute salatainstitute.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. Setting the standard for Machine Learning seas.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. Harvard launches TinyML professional certificate seas.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. Adversarial Nibbler: A Data-Centric Challenge for Improving the Safety of Text-to-Image Models arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  9. Introduction to Machine Learning Systems harvard-edge.github.io. Checked 27 October 2026.
  10. Introduction to Machine Learning Systems (Volume I) mlsysbook.ai. Checked 27 October 2026.
  11. Vijay Janapa Reddi | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences seas.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  12. Vijay Janapa Reddi | Harvard SEAS vijay.seas.harvard.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  13. Vijay Janapa Reddi - AI for Good aiforgood.itu.int. Checked 27 October 2026.