Dr. Priya Panda is an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Southern California starting Fall 2025. Prior to her appointment at USC, she was an Assistant Professor at Yale University in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department from 2019-2025. Dr. Panda has been a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google DeepMind in 2024-25. Her research interests lie in Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Efficient AI/ML, Neuromorphic Computing and Spiking Neural Networks. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2019. She received the B.E. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and the M.Sc. degree in Physics from B.I.T.S. Pilani, India, in 2013. She was the recipient of outstanding student award in physics for academic excellence. From 2013-14, she worked in Intel, India on RTL design for graphics power management. She has also worked with Intel Labs, USA, in 2017 and Nvidia, India in 2013 as research intern. During her internship at Intel Labs, she developed large scale spiking neural network algorithms for benchmarking the Loihi chip.