CV

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (2017 – 2021)
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  • Advisor: Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan
  • Thesis Title: “Efficient Algorithms, Protocols and Hardware Architectures for Next-Generation Cryptography in Embedded Systems”
  • Dissertation Committee: Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Prof. Ronald L. Rivest, Prof. Vinod Vaikuntanathan
  • Minor: Quantum and Solid-State Physics
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (2015 – 2017)
  • S.M. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  • Advisor: Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan
  • Thesis Title: “Energy-Efficient Protocols and Hardware Architectures for Transport Layer Security”
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, WB, India (2009 – 2013)
  • B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
• Vivekananda Mission School, Kolkata, WB, India
  • Indian School Certificate (ISC) (2009)
  • Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) (2007)

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, KA, India (2021 - present)
• Graduate Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (2015 - 2021)
• Digital Design Intern, Analog Devices, Wilmington, MA, USA (2017)
• Associate Engineer, Qualcomm, Bengaluru, KA, India (2013 – 2015)
• Undergraduate Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, WB, India (2012 - 2013)
• Engineering Intern, Qualcomm, Bengaluru, KA, India (2012)

Awards and Fellowships

• Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, 2023
• ABB Research Award in Honor of Hubertus von Grünberg, 2022
• Pratiksha Trust Young Investigator Award, 2022
• Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2016 (and finalist in 2020)
• Irwin Mark Jacobs & Joan Klein Jacobs MIT Presidential Fellowship, 2015
• President of India Gold Medal, 2013
• KVPY Fellowship, 2007

Teaching

• Instructor, Efficient and Secure Digital Circuits and Systems (E0 217), IISc (Aug 2022 - present)
• Guest Lecturer, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits (6.374), MIT (Fall 2019 - present)
• Teaching Assistant, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits (6.374), MIT (Fall 2018)

Service

• Journal Editor:
  • Member of Editorial Board, IACR Communications in Cryptology
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Special Issue on 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, Special Section on 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
• Conference Technical Committee Member:
  • 2026 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Technical Program Committee, Security Subcommittee
  • 2026 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Student Research Preview Committee
  • 2025 International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE), Technical Program Committee
  • 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Co-Design and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), Technical Program Committee
  • 2025 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Technical Program Committee, Technologies and Circuits Track
  • 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Technical Program Committee, Security Subcommittee
  • 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Student Research Preview Committee
  • 2025 International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Technical Program Committee, Hardware Security Track Co-Chair
  • 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Technical Program Committee
  • 2024 International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE), Technical Program Committee
  • 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Co-Design and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), Technical Program Committee
  • 2024 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Technical Program Committee, Hardware and System Security Track
  • 2024 IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), Technical Program Committee, Design / System Technology Co-Optimization Track
  • 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Technical Program Committee, Security Subcommittee
  • 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Student Research Preview Committee
  • 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Technical Program Committee
  • 2023 International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptographic Engineering (SPACE), Technical Program Committee
  • 2023 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Special Session Program Committee
  • 2023 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Student Research Preview Committee
  • 2023 International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Technical Program Committee, Low Power Digital Architectures Track
  • 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Technical Program Committee
  • 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Student Research Preview Committee
• Conference Organizing Committee Member:
  • 2026 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Country Representative for India and Press Designate for Security Subcommittee
  • 2026 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Asia Pacific Regional Subcommittee
  • 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Country Representative for India and Press Designate for Security Subcommittee
  • 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Asia Pacific Regional Subcommittee
  • 2025 International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Student Research Forum Co-Chair
  • 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Asia Pacific Coordinator and Press Designate for Security Subcommittee
  • 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Asia Pacific Regional Subcommittee
  • 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES), Panel Co-Chair
  • 2023 IISc EECS Research Symposium, Co-Organizer and Faculty Coordinator
• Conference Special Session / Panel Organizer:
  • 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES), Special Session on “Efficient Chip Design for Emerging Applications”
  • 2023 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Special Session on “Quantum: from Circuits and Algorithms to Systems and Applications”
• Conference Session Chair / Co-Chair:
  • 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Session: Student Research Preview - Machine Learning, Cryogenic and Ising Machine
  • 2025 International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Session: Technical Track - Hardware Security
  • 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS), Session: SoC Building Blocks
  • 2023 International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Session: Technical Track - Low Power Digital Architectures
  • 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Session: Student Research Preview - Digital and Machine Learning
  • 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Session: Communication and Information Systems Security - Crypto II
• Conference Reviewer:
  • 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
  • 2023 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT)
  • 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
  • 2022 International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID)
  • 2021 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)
• Journal Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
  • IET Electronics Letters
  • IET Quantum Communication
  • IET Circuits, Devices and Systems
  • Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications
  • Wiley International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
• Member, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
• Faculty Advisor, IEEE IISc VLSI Student Branch Chapter (associated with the IEEE SSCS and CAS Societies, and CEDA and Systems Councils)