Erwin Gianchandani, the U.S. National Science Foundation's assistant director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, leads the recently established TIP Directorate.

Gianchandani has worked at NSF since 2012. Before becoming the NSF assistant director for TIP, he served as the senior advisor for Translation, Innovation and Partnerships for over a year, where he helped develop plans for the new NSF TIP Directorate in collaboration with colleagues across NSF, other government agencies, industry and academia.

During the previous six years, Gianchandani was the NSF deputy assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (NSF CISE), twice serving as acting assistant director. Gianchandani's leadership and management of NSF CISE included formulating and implementing the directorate's $1 billion annual budget, strategic and human capital planning and oversight of daily operations for a team of over 130.

Gianchandani has led the development and launch of several new NSF initiatives, including the Smart and Connected Communities program, Civic Innovation Challenge, Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program.

Before joining NSF in 2012, Gianchandani was the inaugural director of the Computing Community Consortium, providing leadership to the computing research community in identifying and pursuing bold, high-impact research directions such as health information technology and sustainable computing.

Gianchandani has published extensively and presented at international conferences on computational systems biology. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and master's and doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering, all from the University of Virginia.

In 2021, Gianchandani received the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award, awarded to members of the federal government's Senior Executive Service for sustained extraordinary accomplishment. In 2018, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award from the University of Virginia.