World-leaders in Cryptography: Srini Devadas

Srini Devadas an Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His current research interests are in applied cryptography, computer security and computer architecture. Srini was awarded an a master's and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley - under the supervision of Arthur Richard Newton. He was an inventor of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), and, In 2014, he received the IEEE Computer Society's Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for the invention of PUFs and secure single-chip processor architectures. In 2018, Srini received the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award for the development of PUFs and enabling the deployment of secure circuits, processors and systems. In 2021, he received the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice for the development of PUF, and the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award for fundamental contributions to secure microprocessors, circuits, and systems. In 2016, Srini won the Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Also, in 2016, he was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow considered MIT's highest undergraduate teaching award.