Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Distinguished Professor
Duke University, USA


Krishnendu Chakrabarty received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1995. He is the William H. Younger Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science, at Duke University.

Prof. Chakrabarty is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, the IEEE Transactions on CAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award (2015), the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems Best Paper Award (2017), and over a dozen best paper awards at major conferences. He is also a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2015), the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award (2017), and the Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Award (2018). He is a Research Ambassador of the University of Bremen (Germany) and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is a 2018 recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship in the "Short Term S: Nobel Prize Level" category.

Prof. Chakrabarty's current research interests include: testing and design-for-testability of integrated circuits and systems; microfluidic biochips; data analytics for fault diagnosis, failure prediction, anomaly detection, and hardware security; neuromorphic computing systems. He is a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society. Prof. Chakrabarty served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Design & Test of Computers during 2010-2012 and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems during 2010-2015. Currently he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems.