Sanmukh Rao Kuppannagari is a James C. Wyant Assistant Professor at the Computer and Data Sciences Department at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Southern California (USC). He completed his PhD in 2018 in Computer Engineering from USC. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati in Computer Science and Engineering.

His research interests include parallel/reconfigurable computing, combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, and AI/ML acceleration. He is a PI/Co-PI on several funded National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health awards. He has published more than 50 papers with a couple of them receiving “Best Student Paper” awards.

Sanmukh Kuppannagari is also an NVIDIA DLI'S North America based ambassador and a certified NVIDIA instructor.