Himanshu Thapliyal

2025-2027 Distinguished Visitor Speaker

Himanshu Thapliyal (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. He has authored over 200 journal articles/conference papers with over 7200 citations (H-index of 51) and holds three U.S. patents. His research interests include spintronics circuits, quantum computing, and hardware-assisted cybersecurity for consumer electronics.,Dr. Thapliyal received the Distinguished Graduate Achievement Award for his Ph.D. degree. He has been ranked in the top 30 among scientists throughout the world in the field of computer hardware and architecture for the calendar year 2023. He was a recipient of the 2019 NSF CAREER Award and the 2020 IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Very Large Scale Integration (TCVLSI) Mid-Career Research Achievement Award. In March 2022, he was selected to the Inaugural Class of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors. In January 2025, he was selected as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. He received the Best Poster/Late Breaking Research (LBR) Award at the 2023 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. He received best paper awards at 2012 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2017 Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISR), 2020 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, and the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). He is serving as the Section Editor for the Computer Science (Springer Nature) and is leading two sections. He has served/serving on editorial boards for journals, including IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and the Microelectronics Journal.