Kaushik Roy Explained

Kaushik Roy
Birth Place:India
Work Institutions:Purdue University
Alma Mater:Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Field:Cognitive algorithms, circuits and architecture for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing/machine learning and neuro-mimetic devices
Awards:NSF Career Development Award
SRC Technical Excellence Award, SRC Inventors Award, SRC Aristotle Award, and SRC Innovation Award
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Achievement Award, IEEE TCVLSI Distinguished Research Award
Indian Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumnus Award
Purdue University Arden L. Bement Jr.

Kaushik Roy is a researcher and educator in the area of electrical and computer engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[1] and holds the position of Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor[2] of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Roy is the Director of the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing (C-BRIC).[3]

Education

Roy earned his B.Tech. degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from the IIT, Kharagpur India in 1983. He earned his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Jacob Abraham in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990.[4]

Career

From 1990-1993, Roy was a member of the technical staff in the Semiconductor Process and Design Center at Texas Instruments in Texas. He joined Purdue University in the College of Engineering in 1993 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering on the West Lafayette campus in Indiana. In 1997, he was promoted to associate professor. He was promoted to full professor in 2001 and was named the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 2012, he was named the Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor.

He has supervised 100 Ph.D. dissertations and co-authored two books on Low Power CMOS VLSI Design (John Wiley & McGraw Hill).[5]

As of April 2021, Roy had 20 patents and more than 800 publications in books, journals and conferences that have been cited more than 59,000 times.[6]

Honors and awards

His research was recognized with the Purdue University Arden L. Bement Jr. Award[7] for significant accomplishments in pure and applied science and engineering.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: IEEE Fellows Directory - Alphabetical Listing. 2021-04-18. IEEE.
  2. Web site: Kaushik Roy. 2021-04-18. Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University. en.
  3. Web site: Center for Brain-Inspired Computing . Center for Brain-Inspired Computing.
  4. Web site: Kaushik Roy. 2021-04-18. Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University. en.
  5. Web site: Kaushik Roy. 2021-04-19. Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory - Purdue University. en.
  6. Web site: Kaushik Roy. 2021-04-18. scholar.google.com.
  7. Web site: Prof. Kaushik Roy receives 2020 Arden L. Bement Jr. Award. 2021-05-14. Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University. en.