Dr. Saibal Mukhopadhyay received a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2006. He is currently a Joseph M. Pettit Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. His research interests include design of energy-efficient, intelligent, and secure systems. Dr. Mukhopadhyay’s research explores a cross-cutting approach to design spanning algorithm, architecture, circuits, and emerging technologies. He is the director of “CogniSense: A Center on Cognitive Multispectral Sensing,” one of the seven national centers under the Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP2.0) program sponsored by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency.

Dr. Mukhopadhyay was a recipient of the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2012, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2011, the IBM Faculty Partnership Award in 2009 and 2010, the SRC Inventor Recognition Award in 2008, the SRC Technical Excellence Award in 2005, and the IBM PhD Fellowship Award for years 2004 to 2005. He has received multiple best paper awards in various IEEE/ACM conferences and has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers in refereed journals and conferences and holds five U.S. patents. Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a Fellow of IEEE.