Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University has appointed two faculty members of Indian origin, marking a significant addition to its academic team. Abhishek Bhattacharjee will join as a professor of computer science, while Ravi Nath has been named assistant professor of molecular biology. Both appointments will take effect next year.
The university’s Board of Trustees approved the appointments as part of a broader hiring initiative that includes eight new faculty members, comprising three full professors and five assistant professors.
Bhattacharjee, an expert in computer architecture, will begin his professorship on September 1, 2026. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University. Prior to returning to Princeton, Bhattacharjee served as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science at Yale University since 2019. He also taught at Rutgers University from 2010 to 2018 and was a visiting fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute between 2017 and 2019.
His research has contributed to innovations in commercial microprocessors, operating systems, and chips, collaborating with companies like NVIDIA and Meta. His work has been funded by organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Meta, and Intel. Among his accolades are the NSF Career Award (2013) and the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award (2023). He has published over 70 research papers and co-authored the textbook Architectural and Operating System Support for Virtual Memory in 2017 with NVIDIA scientist Daniel Lustig.
Ravi Nath, who will start in July 2026, specializes in the genetics and neurobiology of aging. He holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University. Nath’s research focuses on lifespan and neurodegenerative processes in vertebrates, using the killifish as a model through quantitative biology and functional genetic screening techniques.
The six other newly appointed faculty members include Will Dobbie, Crystal Yang, Claire Bedbrook, Chris Hamilton, Kaiyi Jiang, and Ewin Tang.
