Debayan Das, PhD candidate in Purdues School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Debayan Das, PhD candidate in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been awarded the 2020-2021 Predoctoral Achievement Award, given by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). This award is the highest honor presented to PhD students by the IEEE SSCS and recognizes unique contributions in advancing the state-of-the-art in circuit design. Das is the first Purdue student to receive this honor since its inception in 1983.

Das is a 5^th year Ph.D. student at the Sparc Lab, advised by Prof. Shreyas Sen. His research has focused on mixed-signal IC design for hardware security. At the IEEE ISSCC 2020 conference, Das presented the design of a generic low-overhead circuit-level countermeasure that achieved 100x improvement in side-channel resilience against hardware side-channel attacks compared to the prior works.

Recently, Das received the 2020-21 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, which is awarded to outstanding PhD candidates in their final year to recognize the student's academic abilities and scholarly achievements. Over the last year, he was also won third place in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at the ICCAD 2020 conference. Das, advised by Prof. Sen, has received Best Paper and Demo Awards at IEEE HOST Symposium, for 4 consecutive years 2017-2020.

These research works have been funded by NSF and Intel Corporation. Das’s research outcomes have gained significant traction with both semiconductor industry as well as academia.