Rate My Professor Jana Doppa

Janardhan Rao (Jana) Doppa is the Huie-Rogers Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science and George and Joan Berry Distinguished Professor in Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University, where he joined the faculty in 2014. He currently serves as Chair of the EECS Graduate Studies Committee. Doppa holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University (2014) and an M.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (2006). Prior to his tenure-track position at WSU, he instructed courses in research methods, data structures, and programming at Oregon State University and IIT Kanpur.

Doppa's research centers on artificial intelligence, with a focus on machine learning techniques including structured prediction, sequential decision-making under uncertainty, robust learning, and adaptive experimental design. His work addresses high-impact applications in domains such as agriculture, materials discovery, additive manufacturing, healthcare, cybersecurity, hardware design, and sustainable computing. Doppa's contributions have earned him election as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2025 for advancements in structured machine learning and AI-driven acceleration of science and engineering. He is a Senior Member of AAAI (2023) and ACM (2022). Notable honors include the WSU Faculty Mid-Career Award (2024), Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher Award (2024), NSF CAREER Award (2019), Voiland College Outstanding Junior Faculty in Research Award (2020), Reid-Miller Teaching Excellence Award (2018), and multiple Best Paper Awards from conferences including AAAI (2013), ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week (2022, 2023), ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (2021), and ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (2023). He has delivered invited lectures such as the Bose Lecture on AI and contributes to research consortia like AgAID Institute and CySER. Doppa has advised numerous Ph.D. students who have secured faculty positions and industry roles.