NeuroComputing and Hardware Security (NeuroCHaSe) Group
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Principal Investigator
Shubham Sahay
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Post-doctoral Research Scholar, UCSB, CA, USA (Jul'18 - Mar'20)
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi (Mar'18)
B.Tech, Electronics Engineering, IIT BHU, 2014 (Inst. Gold Medalist)
Professional Activities
Editor: IETE Technical Review
Review Editor: Frontiers on Neuroscience - Neuromorphic Engineering, Frontiers in Electronics - Integrated Circuits and VLSI
Technical Program Committee Member: DAC 2022, IWPSD 2021, VDAT 2021, DevIC2021, VLSI DCS 2021
Senior Member: IEEE and Chair, IEEE EDS, UP section; Member of Technical Working Group (Digital processing), NIST Microelectronic and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MAPT) Roadmap, USA
Reviewer
Book Proposals: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis
Journals: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL), IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED), IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (JEDS), IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability (TDMR), IEEE Access, IEEE Journal of
Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits(JxCDC), IEEE Sensors Journal.
Elsevier Superlattices and Microstructures, Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, Elsevier Cryogenics, IETE Technical Review (TITR), Springer Journal of Computational Electronics (JCEL), Springer Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, IET Circuits, Devices and Systems, IET Micro and Nano Letters.
Conferences: IEEE EDTM'20, IEEE MWSCAS'18
Awards and Honors
IEEE EDS Early Career Award 2023
INAE Young Associate 2023
Editor of IETE Technical Review.
Received commendation letter from the Director, IITK for Excellence in Teaching for all the courses taught at IIT Kanpur between 2020 to 2022.
Appeared in the list of golden reviewers for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED) and IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL) from 2017-20.
Recipient of I.I.T. (B.H.U.), Varanasi Gold Medal for standing First at the B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering Examination, 2014.
Recipient of Late Prof. Nagesh Chandra Vaidya Gold Medal for standing First at the B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering Examination, 2014.
Recipient of Dr. (Late) Nandita Saha Roy Memorial Gold Medal for securing First position in B.Tech. Electronics Engineering Examination, 2014.
Recipient of C. Raja Gopal Memorial Gold Medal for securing highest marks (institute highest SGPA of 9.92 in absolute scale) in B.Tech. 4-Year Electronics Engineering Examination, 2014.
Recipient of Dr. Ayyagari Sambasiva Rao Prize for standing First at the B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering Examination, 2014.
Recipient of Late Prof. Manoranjan Sengupta Platinum Jubilee Merit Award for securing highest marks in B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering Examination, 2014.
Post-docs (coming soon)
Ph.D. Students
Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal in 2016 and M.Tech in VLSI & Embedded system specialization(EE Department) from I.I.T Patna in 2020. His Present research focuses on the Modeling and simulation of logic and memory devices. He likes to play cricket, listen to old songs and cook delicious food in his free time.
Email: amitkr20@iitk.ac.in
MD Salim Equbal (IITK-La Trobe University Ph.D. Fellowship)
MD Salim Equbal received his B.Tech and M.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi in 2018 and 2020, respectively. His present research focuses on in-memory computing primitives utilising emerging non-volatile memories. He likes to play cricket, badminton & chess in his free time and reads newspaper regularly to keep himself updated on the international affairs.
Email: equbal20@iitk.ac.in
Bhogi Satya Swaroop
Bhogi Satya Swaroop received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from G.M.R.I.T Rajam, Srikakulam (AP) in 2010 and M.E. in Digital Systems Engineering (DSE) from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 2020. His present research focuses on Neuromorphic Computing and Hardware Security. He likes to play cricket & carrom in his free time and he has a habit of collecting various covers on match boxes.
Email: swaroopb20@iitk.ac.in
Sateesh
Sateesh received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from F.G.I.E.T, Raebareli (UP) in 2016 and M.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from I.I.T(I.S.M) Dhanbad in 2019. His present research focuses on Analog IC Design for Neuromorphic computing and Hardware Security. He likes to play carrom, watches cricket and listens to music (mostly old classic melodies) in his free time.
Email: sateesh20@iitk.ac.in
Jasmine Kaur (Jointly with Dr. Sneh Saurabh, IIIT Delhi)
Jasmine Kaur received her B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar in 2017 and M.Tech in VLSI and Embedded systems from IIIT Delhi in 2020. Her present research focuses on Nanoelectronic Devices and Memories for Bayesian computing. She loves singing and listening to songs in her free time.
Email: jasminek@iiitd.ac.in
Musaib Rafiq (Prime Minister Research Fellowship), jointly with Prof. Y. S. Chauhan
Musaib received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar in 2020. He firmly believes in the mantra: 'Work Hard, Play Hard'. Needless to say, he is a sport's freak plying his trade in basketball wherein he had the honour to represent NIT Srinagar's basketball team at both state and the national level. His current research focuses on neuromorphic computing platforms utilizing ferro-electric FETs. In the free time, he also likes to play FIFA.
Email: musaib20@iitk.ac.in
Naheeda Reshi (Jointly with Dr. Amit Verma)
Naheeda received her B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Kashmir University, Jammu and Kashmir in 2014 and M.Tech in ECE with specialization of VLSI from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 2019. Her present research focuses on system of coupled oscillators for computing. Apart from academics, she likes to explore new places.
Email: naheedar21@iitk.ac.in
MD Yasir Bashir
Yasir received his B.Tech and M.Tech in Electronics Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, in year 2017 and 2021, respectively. He qualified both NET and JRF in electronic science in year 2020 and got JRF fellowship for PhD. His current research focuses on design and fabrication of RRAMs. Apart from academics, he has keen interest in electronics from childhood. He loves to watch new electronics related stuff mostly on EEVBLOG and Samzeloof YouTube channels in his free time.
Email: yasirb21@iitk.ac.in
Arka Chakraborty
Arka received his B.Tech from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) in 2021. His present research focuses on stochastic computing techniques. In his leisure time, he enjoys reading adventure comics like Tintin. His hobbies include writing stories and patriotic poems in Bengali. He also keeps an eye on the recent advancements in the field of electronics.
Email: arkac21@iitk.ac.in
Himanshu Yadav (Jointly with Dr. Tanmoy Maiti, MSE)
Himanshu Yadav received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from PSIT, Kanpur, in 2014 and his M.Tech in ECE with a specialization in Digital Systems from MMMUT, Gorakhpur, in 2018. His current research work focuses on fabrication and characterization of emerging non-volatile memories. He qualified for UGC NET-JRF 2021 in Electronic Science and got JRF fellowship for Ph.D. Apart from academics, he is a musician, cricket fanatic, and movie buff and always ready for something exciting and up for new learning experiences.
Email: himanshuy22@iitk.ac.in
Sanjay Sharma (Jointly with Dr. Rik Dey)
Sanjay Sharma received his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from Madhav Institute of Technology Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in 2010 and his M.Tech in Microelectronics specialization (EC Department) from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi in 2014. His Present research focuses on the Modeling and Simulation of Parasitic Capacitance and Resistance in modern Field Effect Transistors (FETs). He likes to play Badminton, listen to devotional songs, have general discussions with friends, and gardening in his free time.
Email: sanjaysh@iitk.ac.in
M.S.(R) Students
Apoorva Dixit (internship at Qualcomm)
Apoorva received her B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI), Kanpur in 2018. She likes traveling, singing, playing guitar, reading novels, and writing (manuscripts). She has won several inter-college badminton tournaments. Needless to say, she loves badminton and has also ventured recently into creating youtube content.
Email: apoorvad20@iitk.ac.in
Munoon Jain
Munoon received his B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from BIT MESRA, Ranchi in 2019. He likes dramatics and has performed in many stage plays and nukkad nataks during his B.E and school days. His present research interests include in-memory computing for image sensors.
Email: munoonj20@iitk.ac.in
Sharang Dhar Patel
Sharang received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad in 2019. His present research focuses on exploratory devices and circuits for neuromorphic computing. He likes to play Chess (and knows how to make moves with novel devices to checkmate the energy-draining GPUs) and listens to music (mostly old classic melodies) in his free time.
Email: sharang20@iitk.ac.in
Saurabh Sahu
Saurabh received his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology, Allahabad in 2019. His present research focuses on the analysis of exploratory devices for advanced technology nodes. He likes to play cricket, valleyball and badminton (while smashing the physical mechanisms degrading performance of the advanced CMOS technology) and listens to music in his free time.
Email: saurabsahu20@iitk.ac.in
Rahul Kumar Gupta
Rahul received B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication from The Institute of Engineering & Technology - DAVV (IET-DAVV), Indore in 2021. His current research focusses on fabrication of flexible RRAMs for neuromorphic computing. His motto: Love Yourself (BTS fan). He loves playing basketball and dancing (he participated in many school and college events). In his free time, he usually listens to music and cooks.
Email: rahulkg21@iitk.ac.in
M.Tech Students
Raushan Kumar (M.Tech'21; Joined Qualcomm)
Raushan received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from National Institute of Technology (N.I.T), Arunachal Pradesh in 2018. His current research focuses on the developement of analytical and compact model for neuromorphic computing.
Raushan enjoys playing cricket when he is not modeling (memories).
Email: raushank@iitk.ac.in
Kaustubh Deepak Chakkarwar (M.Tech'21; Joined Intel)
kaustubh received his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETC) from Maharashtra Institute of Technology (M.I.T), Pune in 2016. He also worked in Inautix Technologies as an Application Developer after his bachelors. His current research focuses on neuromorphic computing platforms based on spintronics. Kaustubh is a carrom player and also plays chess apart from juggling with the spin devices.
Email: kaudc@iitk.ac.in
Tanveer Kaur (M.Tech'21, Jointly with Prof. Y. S. Chauhan; Joined Qualcomm)
Tanveer received her B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (N.I.T), Jalandhar in 2018. Her current research focuses on neuromorphic computing platforms utilizing ferro-electric FETs. Tanveer is an avid reader, likes driving and meditation (focussing her mind on FeFETs) and sharpens her survival skills by playing PUBG.
Email: tanveer@iitk.ac.in
Ankita Bansal (M.Tech'22; Selected for I.E.S, AIR - 18)
Ankita completed her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) Indore in 2018. Her current research focuses on neuromorphic computing platforms. She likes to play badminton, listens to music for relaxing and refreshment and loves to solve puzzles for keeping her mind active.
Email: ankiban20@iitk.ac.in
Anmol Anand (M.Tech'22, Joined CIL)
Anmol completed his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (I.S.M) Dhanbad in 2018. He worked as an Assistant Manager in Vedanta Ltd. for one year. His current research focuses on 3D NAND flash memory. He likes to hit the gym regularly, sketches beautiful paintings (of 3D NAND flash arrays) and listens to Punjabi songs to relax his mind.
Email: anmolanand20@iitk.ac.in
Anupam Kumar Jaiswal (M.Tech'22, Joined Texas Instruments)
Anupam completed his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technical University (H.B.T.U) Kanpur in 2019. His current research focuses on the anamalous behavior of ferroelectric materials. He likes to play chess and solves sudoku to sharpen his mind (so that he can utilize it fully for research). He is also a big fan of sci-fi movies.
Email: anuwal20@iitk.ac.in
Rajib Das (M.Tech'22, Joined Juniper Networks)
Rajib completed his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from College of Engineering and Management, Kolaghat in 2019. His current research focuses on the analysis of dopingless devices. He is an avid reader (and reads a lot of literature on dopingless devices apart from novels) and likes to watch/play cricket and explore new places.
Email: rajibd20@iitk.ac.in
Praveen Kumar (M.Tech'22, Joined Intelligence Bureau)
Praveen completed his B. Tech in electronics engineering from Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur in 2019. His current research focuses on Nanotube FETs. His hobbies are playing/watching cricket and listening music.
Email: panthpra20@iitk.ac.in
Himanshu Mewara (M.Tech'22, Joined NTPC)
Himanshu graduated in Electrical Engineering from IIT Mandi in 2019. Thereafter, He worked as a Manager (Electrical) Grade A in Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL) for 11 months. His current research focusses on spiking neural networks. In his free time, Himanshu likes to watch anime and movies.
Email: himanshu20@iitk.ac.in
Pritish Sharma (M.Tech'23, Internship at Qualcomm)
Pritish received B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Chandigarh College of Engg. & Technology in 2021. His current research focuses on hardware implementation of Binary Neural Networks. He plays Table Tennis, Football and meditates regularly. He is fluent in Gif and a huge Dwight Schrute fan (The Office).
Email: pritishs21@iitk.ac.in
Kudipudi Sushma VL (M.Tech'23)
Sushma received B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Andhra University College of Engineering,Vizag(AP) in 2021. Her present research focuses on novel capacitorless DRAM design. She enjoys listening to music. Her hobbies are singing,dancing and playing badminton. She watches comic stuff on youtube for relaxation in free time (especially when she is stressed).
Email: sushmavl21@iitk.ac.in
B.Tech/M.Tech Dual-Degree Students
Tejas Ketkar (IEEE EDS UG Fellowship'22; Intern at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Texas instruments, Jointly with Prof. A. Dutta)
Tejas is a graduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering. His current research focuses on the hardware implementation of spiking neural networks and modeling cryogenic devices for quantum computing. Tejas is a fitness (and SNN) fanatic and enjoys calisthenics, running and weightlifting apart from tuning weights for NNs.
Email: tejask@iitk.ac.in
B.Tech Students
Ayush Saxena (B.Tech'22, Joined Goldman Sachs)
Ayush is an undergraduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering. His current research focuses on hyper-dimensional computing. Ayush likes to play table tennis and enjoys listening to music (while decoding the notes in their hyperdimensional space).
Email: saxenaa@iitk.ac.in
Nakul Singh (B.Tech'22, Joined Oracle)
Nakul is an undergraduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering. His current research focuses on Ising machines. He loves to play basketball and is an avid reader of DC comics (he wants to develop the Ising machine to increase the popularity of DC over Marvel).
Email: nakulsh@iitk.ac.in
Honey Nikam (B.Tech'22, Awarded Best B.Tech Project Award at IITK, Joining University of California, San Diego for MS in CSE)
Honey is an undergraduate student in the department of Mechanical Engineering(/Electrical Engineering). Her current research focuses on the hardware implementation of Recurrent Neural Networks. Honey is an avid reader, with ‘'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' as one of her all time favourites. She also likes writing, not just code but poetry as well.
Email: honeyn@iitk.ac.in
Nakula Neeraje (B.Tech'23)
Nakula is an undergraduate student in the department of Electrical Engineering. His current research focuses on Hardware Security Primitives based on Phase Change Memory. He is an avid puzzle enthusiast and enjoys solving Rubik's cubes. (Thankfully, puzzle solving is deterministic and free from variations!)
Email: nakula@iitk.ac.in
Rishabh Katiyar (B.Tech'23)
Rishabh is an undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His current research focuses on Reinforcement Learning. He likes reading novels, doing exercise, and running. He knows that running a lot (of simulations) produces great results.
Email: rkatiyar@iitk.ac.in
Sandeep Perikala (B.Tech'22, Joined Intel)
Sandeep is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is currently working on design and analysis of Tunnel FET based biosensors. He follows all the major events of Cricket, Chess and Tennis. He played a lot of chess during the lockdown. He follows and studies super GMs games to improve his tactics. He also watches lots of movies and web-series in his free time and listens to music (mostly pop) when he is stressed.
Email: perikala@iitk.ac.in
Debaditya Bhattacharya (B.Tech'23, Internship at Cornell University)
Debaditya is an undergraduate student from the Department of Physics. His current research focuses on modelling artificial neurons. Although he is deeply inquisitive about everything, he is wildly intrigued about how computers function and how the brain operates. When not tinkering or surfing YouTube, he can be found engineering massive factories in Factorio and Minecraft or talking to friends and family.
Email: debbh@iitk.ac.in
Shorya Kumar (B.Tech'23)
Shorya is an undergraduate student in the department of Electrical engineering. His current research focuses on Hardware security primitives based on Random telegraph Noise. He is a curious person and loves to explore new things. He likes to read when alone and engages to connect when in company. When not involved with algorithmic puzzles, you can find him binging movies or talking to people about their interests.
Email: shoryak@iitk.ac.in
Research Associates (coming soon)
Research Interns
Sean Lee (B.S'20, University of California, Santa Barbara; Joining Utah State University for Brain and cognition PhD Program)
Sean is a graduating senior at University of California, Santa Barbara majoring in Statistics and Data Science. His ultimate research goal is to reveal the biggest secrets of the human brain and transfer its architectures and models to new computer systems to pursue better quality of human life. His current research interests are in statistical/mathematical modeling of the human brain, neuro/brain imaging, and the human brain inspired computer architecture.
Email: hanbyullee@ucsb.edu
Arpan De (B.Tech'22, Jadhavpur University, Joining University of Washington for PhD)
Arpan is a third year undergraduate student in the department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETCE), Jadavpur University. His current research focuses on the hardware implementation of bio-mimetic algorithms. Apart from exploring unique neurobiological behavior of different organisms, he likes to play cricket, listens to music and spends time with Agatha Christie.
Email: arpantukan@gmail.com
Dipanjan Sen (M.Tech'21, Jadhavpur University; Joining Penn-state University for Material Science and Engineering PhD Program)
Dipanjan received his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology (M.S.I.T), Kolkata in 2018. He is currently pursuing M. Tech in VLSI Design and Microelectronics Technology from Jadavpur University. His current research focuses on the design and simulation of label-free biosensors based on emerging nano-devices.
Email: sendipanjan10@gmail.com
Amirtha Varshini K (B.Tech'21, NIT Trichy, Joined Micron)
Amirtha is a final year undergraduate student in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli. She is highly interested in the emerging electronic technologies and her current area of research is VLSI design and nanoelectronics. She is an avid learner and loves experimenting. She also likes to play badminton and enjoys listening to music.
Arjun Tyagi (B.Tech'23, BITS Pilani, Goa campus)
Arjun Tyagi is a final year undergraduate student at BITS Pilani, majoring in Electronics & Instrumentation. His areas of interest are Analog Circuit Design, Neuromorphic Computing & Emerging Memory Technology. He has worked upon several projects in the above fields at Arizona State University, IIT Bombay & IIT Kanpur. Apart from this, he loves to go on long distance runs or hit the gym to keep his mind & body fresh.