School of Informatics, Indiana University
919 E 10th St
Bloomington, IN 47408
919 E 10th St
Bloomington, IN 47408
About
Raj Acharya, Ph.D. is associate vice president for research and AI innovation at Indiana University. Dr. Acharya served as Dean of the Luddy School from 2016-20. He cultivated and secured a $60 Million gift from Fred Luddy to name the School as Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. This is the second largest private gift in Indiana University's history and includes a $22 Million gift to create the Center for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to his tenure at IU, he was Founding Director, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (containing the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering respectively) and Head at Penn State for 14 years. During his tenure at Penn State, research expenditure improved from 64th (2001) to 8th (2016) in the nation. He also held an appointment at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory for conducting classified research. He was previously a Research Scientist at General Electric (Thomson) CSF Laboratory, Paris, France, and has been a Research Fellow at NASA Johnson Space Center, US Air Force Wright Labs, and US Army Center for Night Vision and Electro-Optics. He is on the board of Videomining, Indiana Ventures, and Techpoint.