Ph.D. Candidate Arnab Raha has received the 2016 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award and the 2016 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. The Bilsland Fellowship, awarded by the Purdue Graduate School to outstanding Ph.D. candidates in their final year, is highly competitive and recognizes the student's academic abilities and scholarly achievements.

Awarded by the Purdue College of Engineering, the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award is given to an ECE student who has demonstrated excellence in research through peer-reviewed publications, awards for research, leadership, academic achievements, and participation in professional societies.

Arnab's dissertation is titled "Input-adaptive and quality-configurable approximate computing". 

Many emerging applications exhibit the property of intrinsic error resilience, which is their ability to produce outputs of acceptable quality even when some of their underlying computations are performed in an approximate manner. Approximate computing is a new design paradigm that leverages this intrinsic error resilience to improve the energy consumption and performance of the computing systems that execute these applications. Arnab's dissertation research proposes techniques to perform these approximations in an 'input-aware' and 'quality-configurable' manner, which results in a superior energy vs. quality trade-off compared to prior work. His work has been published in several premier journals and conferences in the area of embedded systems.

Arnab is advised by Professor Vijay Raghunathan.