Srinivas Devadas

Srinivas Devadas is the Webster Professor of EECS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and was named a Distinguished Alumnus of UCB Electrical Engineering in 2025.

Devadas has worked in the fields of Computer-Aided Design (CAD), computer architecture, computer security, and applied cryptography. His awards include the ACM SIGDA-IEEE CEDA A. Richard Newton Technical Impact award in Electronic Design Automation (2015), the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award (2017), the IEEE Circuits and Systems Charles A. Received Technical Achievement Award (2018), and the ACM SIGSAC Award for Outstanding Innovation (2021). He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. Devadas is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and an Everett Moore Baker teaching award recipient, considered MIT's two highest undergraduate teaching honors.