Gayathri Ananthanarayanan is currently an Assistant Professor at the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Karnataka.

She has completed her Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi under the
supervision of Prof M.Balakrishnan and Prof. Smruti R. Sarangi. Her doctoral
dissertation dealt with the study and analysis of  the different factors that affect the scaling trends of many core processors. Her research mainly focused on studies linking various factors such as Performance, Power consumption, Temperature and Process Variations.

After completing her Ph.D, she was a Post doctoral Fellow at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Instrumentation and a Master's Degree in Embedded Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

Her research interests lie in the broad areas of computer architecture and embedded systems. Currently, her research focuses on Hardware Performance analysis, Efficient deployment of Edge-AI applications on Heterogenous Multi-processor Platforms (HMPSoCs) and security aspects of  AI applications in the context of Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).