Rajiv Joshi  Rajiv V. Joshi is an Indian-American prolific inventor and research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His work focuses on the development of integrated circuits and memory chips. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the Industrial Pioneer Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2013 and the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award in 2018. He holds 225 U.S. patents. Joshi holds a bachelor of technology in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. He came to the United States in 1977 to pursue a master's degree at MIT and a doctoral degree at Columbia University.