ACME Leadership

Director: Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Krishnendu Chakrabarty received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1990, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is now the Fulton Professor of Microelectronics in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). He is also the CTO of the SWAP Hub for the Department of Defense Microelectronics Commons, and Director of the ASU Center for Semiconductor Microelectronics (ACME). Before moving to ASU, he was the John Cocke Distinguished Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering 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 IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Prize Paper Award (2021), the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems Best Paper Award (2017), multiple IBM Faculty Awards and HP Labs Open Innovation Research Awards, 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), the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vitold Belevitch Award (2021), the Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Award (2018), the Semiconductor Research Corporation Aristotle Award (2022), the IEEE-HKN Asad M. Madni Outstanding Technical Achievement and Excellence Award (2021), and the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council Bob Madge Innovation Award (2018). He is a Research Ambassador of the University of Bremen (Germany) and he was a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany during 2016-2019. He is a 2018 recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellowship in the “Short Term S: Nobel Prize Level” category. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.