Prasun Kumar Raha

2026 Distinguished Alumni Award

For pioneering leadership in autonomous vehicle systems and silicon architecture, advancing complex hardware and technology platforms from architectural design through large-scale deployment.

Prasun Kumar Raha is the Vice President of Autonomy Systems at Rivian, where he leads the architecture design, technology roadmap, and volume ramping for multiple generations of full-stack autonomous vehicle platforms. An executive engineering leader with deep expertise in silicon architecture, hardware systems, and sensor integration, Dr. Raha has spent his career driving complex hardware and platform architectures from early architectural concept to mass-production deployment.

Prior to leading autonomy systems at Rivian, Dr. Raha held key engineering and executive leadership roles across leading semiconductor and computing platforms. He served as Sr. Director of Systems Validation and Applications at AMD, where he drove systems validation for AI platforms, and held senior engineering leadership roles at Tabula, Texas Instruments, and Intel. Earlier in his career, he contributed to foundational hardware design and signal integrity at Texas Instruments and Agilent Technologies.

Dr. Raha earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997. He also holds an M.S. from Old Dominion University, a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, and completed executive education at Stanford University. Beyond his executive leadership, he remains actively engaged with the Grainger College of Engineering community. Prasun Kumar Raha Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Prasun Kumar Raha is the Vice President of Autonomy Systems at Rivian, where he leads the architecture design, technology roadmap, and volume ramping for multiple generations of full-stack autonomous vehicle platforms. An executive engineering leader with deep expertise in silicon architecture, hardware systems, and sensor integration, Dr. Raha has spent his career driving complex hardware and platform architectures from early architectural concept to mass-production deployment. Prior to leading autonomy systems at Rivian, Dr. Raha held key engineering and executive leadership roles across leading semiconductor and computing platforms. He served as Sr. Director of Systems Validation and Applications at AMD, where he drove systems validation for AI platforms, and held senior engineering leadership roles at Tabula, Texas Instruments, and Intel. Earlier in his career, he contributed to foundational hardware design and signal integrity at Texas Instruments and Agilent Technologies. Dr. Raha earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997. He also holds an M.S. from Old Dominion University, a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, and completed executive education at Stanford University. Beyond his executive leadership, he remains actively engaged with the Grainger College of Engineering community.

Current as of 2026.