Professor Tulika Mitra is Vice Provost (Special Projects) and the Dean of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she supports university-wide strategic initiatives under the Provost’s Office. She is Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Prior to her current appointment, Tulika served as Vice Provost (Academic Affairs) from 2021 to 2025. She was also Chair (2020-2025) and Deputy Chair (2018-2019) of the University Promotion and Tenure Committee (UPTC), and Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department (2016-2018). As Vice Provost and UPTC Chair, she led initiatives to uphold academic excellence while championing a more inclusive and forward-looking culture for faculty recruitment and development. She joined NUS in 2001 after receiving her PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Tulika is recognised internationally for her pioneering research in hardware-software codesign of computing systems, with a focus on real-time embedded systems and energy-efficient AI accelerators. She currently leads an NRF Competitive Research Programme on low-power reconfigurable edge accelerators (2021-2026) and an MOE Tier-3 programme on Green AI (2025-2030). She also actively collaborates with global industry research partners such as ARM, AMD, and Meta to achieve real-world impact.
Her research has received several accolades, including best paper awards at top conferences and the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) Test-of-Time Award 2022. She has delivered multiple plenary keynotes and been invited as a distinguished speaker at flagship international conferences.

Tulika has served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Member of the ACM Publications Board, General Chair of ESWEEK, and General/Program Chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Her service to the research community has been recognized with the IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Recognition Award and ACM SIGDA Distinguished Service Award. She also serves on the DSTA Board of Directors, the Scientific Advisory Boards of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and Barkhausen Institute, international expert panels of Inria (France), KTH (Sweden), and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

As an educator, Tulika has been instrumental in establishing the multi-disciplinary Computer Engineering programme (CEG) at NUS, a unique collaborative effort between the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Computing. She was the Chair and Co-Chair of the CEG Joint Academic Committee (2011-2017) and received the School of Computing Teaching Excellence Award. Committed to mentoring the next generation of researchers, she has supervised around 25 PhD students, all of whom are now well-established in academia or industry.