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Jayadev Acharya

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Acharya joined Cornell in August 2016 as an Assistant Professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering, after spending two years as a postdoc at MIT. He was promoted to Associate Professor in June 2022. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego, and a B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.


 

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acharya@cornell.edu
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