Kaushik Roy (engineer)
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 and holds the position of Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Roy was the Director of the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing, and is currently the Director of the Institute of CHIPS and AI and lead researcher on the Microelectronics Commons "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.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.
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.