Srini Devadas is an Indian-American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) who conducts research on computer security, computer architectures, and applied cryptography.
His work has spanned topics such as analytical cache modeling, single-chip secure processors, and hardware information flow tracking. Among his research contributions is the invention of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), an important tool for device authentication and key generation.
Devadas graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in 1985. He earned both a master's and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, working under the supervision of Arthur Richard Newton. He has been a member of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department since 1988. He was previously a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[1] and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[2]
In 2014 Devadas received the IEEE Computer Society's Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for the invention of Physical Unclonable Functions and secure single-chip processor architectures. In 2017, he received the IEEE Computer Society's W. Wallace McDowell Award for "fundamental contributions that have shaped the field of secure hardware, impacting circuits, microprocessors, and systems".[3] In 2021, he received the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice for the development of Physical Unclonable Functions,[4] and the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award for fundamental contributions to secure microprocessors, circuits, and systems.[5]