Swarup Bhunia

Director, Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World 
Preeminence Professor & Semmoto Endowed Professor of Internet of Things 

Email: swarup@ece.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-5989
Mailing Address: PO Box 116200, Gainesville FL 32611-6200
Office Locations Benton 317

EXPERTISE

Devices, Electronics, Signals & Systems

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Hardware Security and Trust, with emphasis on: System-on-chip security, IoT  
  • Intelligent Edge Computing, including Wearable Systems 
  • Food, Medicine, Dietary Supplement Safety, using spectroscopy and authentication 
  • Adaptive Nanocomputing with emerging technologies 
  • Computing at Extreme, with emphasis on: nanomechanical logic and memory  
  • Low-power and Robust Electronics 

ABOUT

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AWARDS

  • IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS) Best Paper Nomination (2024)
  • UFRF Professorship Award (2024)
  • HACK@DAC 2024, First Place, Hardware security challenge, Faculty Advisor of UF Student Team (2024)
  • IEEE Fellow (2023)
  • IEEE Hardware Oriented Security and Test (HOST) Hall of Fame (2023)
  • University of Florida (UF) 2022 Innovator of the year (2022)
  • HWCOE doctoral dissertation advisor/mentoring award (2022)
  • University of Florida (UF) ECE Department Staff Choice Award for Faculty (2022)
  • Top Picks in Hardware Security, IEEE CEDA/HSTTC (2021)
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (January 2020)
  • Best Poster Award, International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering (SPACE) (December 2020)
  • IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (DV) Program (January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2022)
  • Term Professorship for three-year period, University of Florida (Aug 1, 2019 – July 31, 2022)
  • Best Hardware Demo Award (First Place, out of 31 demos), IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2019 
  • Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2018 Faculty Award for Excellence in Innovation (2018)
  • Research Promotion Initiative award, University Relations, University of Florida (2018)
  • ECE Research Excellence Award, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida (2018)
  • Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
  • Best Hardware Demo Award (Third Place, out of 24 demos), IEEE Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2018 
  • Best Poster Award (First Place), 2nd Workshop on Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE), 2018, co-located with HOST 2018 
  • IEEE-CS TCVLSI Distinguished Research Award for “contributions to VLSI design and test/validation, including innovative algorithms, architecture, circuit design methodologies and automation tools for low-power and secure electronic hardware.” (2018)
  • Distinguished Speaker of the ACM (Aug 2017 – Aug 2020) 
  • IEEE TTTC Service Award (2017)
  • Selection of co-authored paper in 21st Annual Best of Computing, Notable Books & Articles by ACM and ThinkLoud (2017)
  • Best Paper Award, The IEEE 2016 Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) (2016)
  • Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) Fellowship, India (2016)
  • Excellence in Research Award, EECS, Case Western Reserve University (2013)
  • IBM Faculty Award (2013)
  • Appointment for T. and A. Schroeder Chair Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering (2013)
  • Best paper award, 25th International Conference on VLSI Design (2012)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) career development (CAREER) award (2011)
  • Mike Mesarovic award for extraordinary impact, EECS, Case Western Reserve University (2011)
  • Best paper candidate, IEEE Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (HOST) (2010)
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Inventor Recognition Award (2009)
  • Best paper nomination in Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf. (ASP-DAC) (2006)
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence award (as team member) (2005)
  • E.J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award by Test Tech. Technical Council (TTTC), 3rd place (2005)
  • Best paper award in International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) (2004)
  • Best paper award in Latin American Test Workshop (LATW) (2003)

EDUCATION

  • PhD – Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2005, Thesis: “Power and Yield-Aware Design and Test of Nano-Scale CMOS Circuits”, Advisor: Dr. Kaushik Roy, Dissertation Committee: Kaushik Roy (chair), Cheng Kok Koh, Khurram Muhammad, and T.N. Vijaykumar 
  • M.Tech – Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1997, Thesis: “Design and Simulation of an ASIC for Fractal Image Compression”, Advisor: Dr. Partha Pratim Das  
  • B.E. – Computer Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 1995