Kaushik Roy
{{Infobox scientist
| image = KaushikRoy.jpg
| name = 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.
| website = {{URL|https://engineering.purdue.edu/NRL/Group}}
}}
{{Short description|Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering}}
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{{Cite web|title=IEEE Fellows Directory - Alphabetical Listing|url=https://services27.ieee.org/fellowsdirectory/home.html#results_table|access-date=2021-04-18|website=IEEE}} and holds the position of Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor{{Cite web|title=Kaushik Roy|url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/People/ptProfile|access-date=2021-04-18|website=Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University|language=en}} of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Roy was the Director of the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing (C-BRIC),{{Cite web |title=Center for Brain-Inspired Computing |url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/C-BRIC |access-date= |website=Center for Brain-Inspired Computing}} and is currently the Director of the Institute of CHIPS and AI{{Cite web |title=Institute of Chips and AI - Purdue University |url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/CHIPSandAI/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=engineering.purdue.edu |language=en}} and lead researcher on the Microelectronics Commons{{Cite web |last= |title=Silicon Crossroads Microelectronics Commons Hub |url=https://microelectronicscommons.org/connect/silicon-crossroads-microelectronics-commons-hub/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=Microelectronics Commons |language=en-US}} "CHEETA: CMOS+MRAM Hardware for Energy Efficient AI" project.
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.{{Cite book |last=Roy |first=Kaushik |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/101595/bitstreams/361491/data.pdf |title=Timing verification and synthesis of circuits for delay fault testability |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |year=1990}}
Career
From 1990 to 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 over 100 Ph.D. dissertations and co-authored two books on Low Power CMOS VLSI Design (John Wiley & McGraw Hill).{{Cite web|title=Kaushik Roy|url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/NRL/Group|access-date=2021-04-19|website=Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory - Purdue University|language=en}}
As of March 2025, Roy had 24 patents and more than 1,000 publications in books, journals, and conferences that have been cited more than 73,000 times.{{Cite web|title=Kaushik Roy|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=to4P8KgAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2021-04-18|website=scholar.google.com}}
Honors and awards
His research was recognized with the Purdue University Arden L. Bement Jr. Award{{Cite web|title=Prof. Kaushik Roy receives 2020 Arden L. Bement Jr. Award|url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/News/2020/prof-kaushik-roy-receives-2020-arden-bement-award|access-date=2021-05-14|website=Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University|language=en}} for significant accomplishments in pure and applied science and engineering.
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