Tulika MITRA
Provost's Chair ProfessorDean, Dean's Office
Vice Provost (Special Projects)
Dean (School of Computing)
- Ph.D. (Computer Science, Stony Brook University, New York, 2000)
- M.E. (Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science, 1997)
- B.E. (Computer Science, Jadavpur University, 1995)
Professor Tulika Mitra is the Dean of the School of Computing and Vice Provost (Special Projects) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she supports university-wide strategic initiatives under the Provost’s Office. She is Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Prior to her current appointment, Tulika served as Vice Provost (Academic Affairs) from 2021 to 2025. She was also Chair (2020-2025) and Deputy Chair (2018-2019) of the University Promotion and Tenure Committee (UPTC), and Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department (2016-2018). As Vice Provost and UPTC Chair, she led initiatives to uphold academic excellence while championing a more inclusive and forward-looking culture for faculty recruitment and development. She joined NUS in 2001 after receiving her PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Tulika is recognised internationally for her pioneering research in hardware-software codesign of computing systems, with a focus on real-time embedded systems and energy-efficient AI accelerators. She currently leads an NRF Competitive Research Programme on low-power reconfigurable edge accelerators (2021-2026) and an MOE Tier-3 programme on Green AI (2025-2030). She also actively collaborates with global industry research partners such as ARM, AMD, and Meta to achieve real-world impact. Her research has received several accolades, including best paper awards at top conferences and the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) Test-of-Time Award 2022. She has delivered multiple plenary keynotes and been invited as a distinguished speaker at flagship international conferences. Tulika has served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Member of the ACM Publications Board, General Chair of ESWEEK, and General/Program Chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Her service to the research community has been recognized with the IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Recognition Award and ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service Award. She also serves on the DSTA Board of Directors, the Scientific Advisory Boards of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Barkhausen Institute, international expert panels of Inria (France), KTH (Sweden), and Chinese University of Hong Kong. As an educator, Tulika has been instrumental in establishing the multi-disciplinary Computer Engineering programme (CEG) at NUS, a unique collaborative effort between the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Computing. She was the Chair and Co-Chair of the CEG Joint Academic Committee (2011-2017) and received the School of Computing Teaching Excellence Award. Committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers, she has supervised around 25 PhD students, all of whom are now well-established in academia or industry.
RESEARCH AREAS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Real-Time Embedded Systems
Design Automation
Low Power Design
Power Management
Heterogeneous Computing
RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH GROUPS
TEACHING INNOVATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Muthukaruppan, Thannirmalai Somu, Mihai Pricopi, Vanchinathan Venkataramani, Tulika Mitra, and Sanjay Vishin. "Hierarchical power management for asymmetric multi-core in dark silicon era." In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference, p. 174. ACM, 2013.
- Somu Muthukaruppan, Thannirmalai, Anuj Pathania, and Tulika Mitra. "Price theory based power management for heterogeneous multi-cores." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pp. 161-176. ACM, 2014.
- Pathania, Anuj, Qing Jiao, Alok Prakash, and Tulika Mitra. "Integrated CPU-GPU power management for 3D mobile games." In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Design Automation Conference, pp. 1-6. ACM, 2014.
- Jayaseelan, Ramkumar, Tulika Mitra, and Xianfeng Li. "Estimating the worst-case energy consumption of embedded software." In Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2006. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE, pp. 81-90. IEEE, 2006.
- Li, Xianfeng, Yun Liang, Tulika Mitra, and Abhik Roychoudhury. "Chronos: A timing analyzer for embedded software." Science of Computer Programming 69, no. 1-3 2007: 56-67.
- Liang, Yun, Huping Ding, Tulika Mitra, Abhik Roychoudhury, Yan Li, and Vivy Suhendra. "Timing analysis of concurrent programs running on shared cache multi-cores." Real-Time Systems 48, no. 6 2012: 638-680.
- Suhendra, Vivy, Chandrashekar Raghavan, and Tulika Mitra. "Integrated scratchpad memory optimization and task scheduling for MPSoC architectures." In Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems, pp. 401-410. ACM, 2006.
- Yu, Pan, and Tulika Mitra. "Scalable custom instructions identification for instruction-set extensible processors." In Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems, pp. 69-78. ACM, 2004.
AWARDS & HONOURS
IEEE Distinguished Visitor 2018-2020
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Prof. S. K. Chatterjee Outstanding Woman Researcher Award 2017
Best Paper Award, 11th IEEE International Conference of Field Programmable Technology (FPT) 2012
Best Paper Candidate: DATE'17, DAC'16, CASES'16, VLSI'13, DAC'12, DAC'09, CODES+ISSS'08, FPL'07, ECRTS'07, CASES'07, CASES'04
School of Computing, National University of Singapore Teaching Excellence Award 2006
Computer Society Medal for first position, CS Department, Indian Institute of Science 1997
Dr. B. C. Roy Memorial Medal for first position, Engineering Faculty, Jadavpur University 1995
University Medal for first position, CS Department, Jadavpur University 1995
COURSES TAUGHT