
Prof. Krishnendu Chakrabarty received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1990, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1992 and 1995, respectively. During 1995-1998, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He joined Duke University in September 1998 as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in December 2002, and to full Professor in January 2007. His current research is focused on design and test of system-on-chip integrated circuits, microfluidics-based biochips, circuits and systems based on DNA self-assembly, and wireless/sensor networks.
Prof. Chakrabarty is a recipient of the 1999 National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) Award, the 2001 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Mercator Professor award from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany, for 2000-2002, and best paper awards at the 2001 IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design. He served as a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society for 2005-2007, and as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for 2006-2007. He is also a recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, in 2003. He is an Editor of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems. He serves on the editorial board of IEEE Design & Test of Computers.
Prof. Chakrabarty is a Fellow of IEEE and a Senior Member of ACM. He is a recipient of the 2008 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring at Duke University.
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