Princeton University has announced the appointment of two Indian-origin academics Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Ravi Nath to its faculty. They are among eight new members approved by the Princeton University Board of Trustees, which includes three full professors and five assistant professors.
Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Abhishek Bhattacharjee will join as a professor of computer science, with his tenure beginning on September 1, 2026. His work focuses on computer architecture, a field that shapes how modern hardware and software work together.
He is a familiar name on Princeton’s campus. Bhattacharjee completed his Ph.D. at Princeton before earning a prominent academic career across top US institutions. He currently teaches at Yale University as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science. Earlier, he served as a faculty member at Rutgers University and even returned to Princeton as a visiting fellow at the Neuroscience Institute.
His contributions go beyond academia. His research has already made its way into real technology, influencing chips and processors developed by companies such as NVIDIA and Meta. His work has attracted major grants from leading scientific and industry bodies including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Meta and Intel. With over 70 publications and a widely-used textbook to his credit, Bhattacharjee is recognised with top honours, including the NSF Career Award and the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award.
Ravi Nath
Ravi Nath will join Princeton in July 2026 as an assistant professor in molecular biology and at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Nath studies aging at a genetic level, asking what exactly causes our bodies and brains to grow older. He focuses on the killifish, a tiny species that ages far faster than humans, helping researchers uncover clues about longevity and age-related diseases such as neurodegeneration.
He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University. Nath represents a new generation of scientists exploring some of the biggest questions in biology: How do we age? And can we age better? Bhattacharjee and Nath join a growing list of Indian-origin scholars taking up major roles at global universities. Princeton recently appointed Indian-American professor Sanjeev Kulkarni as dean of its Graduate School adding to this expanding presence.