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Himanshu Thapliyal

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Dr. Himanshu Thapliyal is an Inaugural Walden and Paula Rhines Endowed Quantum Informatics Professor in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Texas, USA. He is a full professor in both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Department of Computer Science (CS) at SMU. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 2011, where he received the ‘Distinguished Graduate Achievement Award’. From 2012 to 14, he worked as a designer of processor test solutions at Qualcomm, where he received the Qualcomm QualStar Award for contributions to memory built-in self-test. He joined as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, in 2014, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. From 2021 to 2025, he was an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. He has been ranked in the top 30 among scientists throughout the world in the field of Computer Hardware and Architecture (Stanford/Elsevier published dataset). He received the 2019 NSF CAREER award and the 2020 IEEE-CS TCVLSI Mid-Career Research Achievement Award. In March 2022, he was selected to the Inaugural Class of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors, which recognizes his distinguished contributions to society and the profession. In January 2025, he was selected as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor among 20 chosen from more than 140 technology leaders and innovators nominated.

He has authored over 200 publications including more than 70 journal articles with over 7600 citations (h-index of 53). He has received Best Paper awards at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2020 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2017 Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISR), and 2012 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI). He is the steering committee vice-chair of the IEEE Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems. He is serving as the Program Chair of the 2022 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). He served as the General Chair of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES). He has served as the Program Chair of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2019 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), and 2018 IEEE Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES). He co-founded the IEEE International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems Automation and Applications (QC-CSAA). He is serving as the Section Editor of the Springer Nature Computer Science and is leading two sections: (i) Quantum Computing and Emerging Technologies, and (ii) Emerging Trends in Sensors, IoT and Smart Systems. He served as the Senior Associate Editor of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and the editorial board member of the Microelectronics Journal. His research interests include hardware security of IoT and vehicles, the circuit design of emerging technologies including quantum computing, and smart healthcare.

Dr. Thapliyal’s students have received several awards including the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for outstanding Ph.D. student, the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for outstanding Master’s student, ECE outstanding Masters research award, ECE outstanding undergraduate research awards, and the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant. His recent Ph.D. graduate in quantum computing has joined academia as the tenure track Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA. His students have secured positions in companies such as Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, Lexmark, United Launch Alliance.

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