Padma Raghavan

{{short description|Indian-born computer scientist}}

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| fields = Computer Science

| workplaces = Vanderbilt University

| alma_mater = {{ubl|Pennsylvania State University|Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur}}

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Padma Raghavan is a computer scientist who works as vice provost for research at Vanderbilt University.

Raghavan graduated in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.{{citation|title=Curriculum vitae|year=2015|url=http://www.cse.psu.edu/~pxr3/PadmaRaghavanCV2015.pdf|accessdate=2016-05-06}}.

She earned her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1991, with a dissertation on parallel algorithms for matrix decomposition supervised by Alex Pothen.{{mathgenealogy|id=59066}} She worked at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then returned as a faculty member to Penn State in 2000. At Penn State, she became a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering, associate vice president for research, and director of strategic initiatives. She moved to Vanderbilt as vice provost in 2016.{{citation|title=Vanderbilt names Padma Raghavan as vice provost for research|first=Melanie|last=Moran|url=http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/12/vanderbilt-names-padma-raghavan-vice-provost-for-research/|magazine=Research news @ Vanderbilt|publisher=Vanderbilt University|date=December 2015|accessdate=2016-05-06}}.

In 2002, Raghavan won a Maria Goeppert Mayer Distinguished Scholar award, funding her to visit Argonne National Laboratory.{{citation|title=On the move|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=March 5, 2002|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/03/05/computer-scientist-padma-raghavan-has-joined-the/}}. She was a Computing Research Association CRA-W Distinguished Lecturer in 2010.{{citation|title=Padma Raghavan Distinguished Lecture Series|url=http://archive.cra-w.org/ArticleDetails/tabid/77/ArticleID/258/Padma-Raghavan.aspx|publisher=Computing Research Association|date=October 12, 2010|accessdate=2016-05-06}}. She became a fellow of the IEEE in 2013. She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).{{Cite web |title=2022 AAAS Fellows {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |url=https://www.aaas.org/page/2022-fellows-0 |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=www.aaas.org |language=en}}

Raghavan's husband, mathematician Steve Simpson, moved with her from Penn State to Vanderbilt.