Saraju Mohanty is an American professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the director of the Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory, at the
University of North Texas
The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School, ...
in Denton, Texas. Mohanty received a Glorious India Award – Rich and Famous NRIs of America in 2017 for his contributions to the discipline. Mohanty is a researcher in the areas of "consumer electronics for smart cities", "application-Specific things for efficient edge computing", and "methodologies for digital and mixed-signal hardware". He has made significant research contributions to security and IP protection of consumer electronic systems, hardware-assisted security and protection,
high-level synthesis
High-level synthesis (HLS), sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that takes an abstract behavioral specification of a digital ...
of digital signal processing (DSP) hardware, and
mixed-signal integrated circuit
A mixed-signal integrated circuit is any integrated circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits on a single semiconductor die.computer-aided design and electronic design automation. Mohanty has been the editor-in-chief (EiC) of the ''IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine'' since 2016.IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, http://cesoc.ieee.org/publications/ce-magazine.html He has held the Chair of the
IEEE Computer Society
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College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar
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Indian Institute of Science
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in Bangalore, India. His thesis mentors at IISc were Professor K. R. Ramakrishnan and Professor Mohan Kankanhalli (
IEEE
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Fellow) with whom he co-authored his first peer-reviewed paper. Mohanty earned a PhD in computer engineering from the
University of South Florida
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in 2003. His PhD mentor was Professor N. Ranganathan (
IEEE
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Contributions to security and IP protection of consumer electronic systems
Mohanty has worked on the Secure Digital Camera (SDC) for real-time security and IP protection at the source end of the information. In the Internet of Things (IoT) framework the SDC can be a sensor node (aka thing) for real-time trustworthy sensing. The SDC can have applications where still image or video digital cameras are needed, such as secure digital video broadcasting, secure video surveillance, electronic passport, and identity card processing. The secure digital camera (SDC) has been adopted by various researchers worldwide.
Contributions to
high-level synthesis
High-level synthesis (HLS), sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that takes an abstract behavioral specification of a digital ...
of digital signal processing (DSP) hardware
Mohanty has worked to
high-level synthesis
High-level synthesis (HLS), sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that takes an abstract behavioral specification of a digital ...
(HLS) or architecture-level synthesis of digital signal processing (DSP) hardware. His methods address energy consumption and power fluctuation in DSP hardware which are heart of consumer electronic systems such that battery life and battery efficiency increases. His nanoelectronic-based
High-level synthesis
High-level synthesis (HLS), sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that takes an abstract behavioral specification of a digital ...
techniques addresses the issue of process variations, the primary issue of nanoelectronic technology, during the high-level synthesis itself before the digital design moves to the detailed and lower levels of design abstractions, such as logic-level or transistor-level.
Contributions to analog electronics and mixed-signal circuits
Mohanty has worked on design space exploration and optimization of analog/mixed-signal system on a chip (AMS-SoC) which is essentially the technology representation of a consumer electronics such as a smart mobile phone. The key feature of these design flows is the need for only two manual layout (or physical design) iterations which saves significant design effort. These fast design flows rely on accurate metamodels of the analog and mixed-signal circuit components. This research advances the state-of-the art in Design for Excellence (DfX) or
Design for X
Design for Excellence or Design For Excellence (DfX or DFX), are terms and expansions used interchangeably in the existing literature, where the ''X'' in ''design for X'' is a variable which can have one of many possible values. In many fields (e. ...
, such as Design for Variability (DfV) and Design for Cost (DfC).
Selected editor and conference chair positions
* Editor-in-chief of the
IEEE
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Consumer electronics
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Magazine (MCE).
* Founding editor-in-chief of the
VLSI
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Circuits and Systems Letter, IEEE-CS TCVLSI.
* Steering committee member, IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2018—present.
* Associate editor,
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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(TCAD)
* Associate editor, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
* Associate editor, ''IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology'' (TNANO)
* Associate editor, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems Journal (CDS)
* Steering Committee Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS)
* Steering Committee vice-chair, IEEE-CS Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
* Steering Committee vice-chair, OITS International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT)
* General Chair, 36th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), January 12–14, 2018, Las Vegas, USA.
Awards
* Fulbright Specialist Award by U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and World Learning in 2020.
* IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Outstanding Service Award for 2019 for leadership contributions to the IEEE Consumer Electronics society.
* IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chester Sall Award in 2020 for the Second place best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics in 2018.
* The PROSE Award for best Textbook in Physical Sciences & Mathematics category from the
Association of American Publishers
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(AAP) in 2016.
* The UNT Toulouse Scholars Award for outstanding scholarship and teaching achievements in 2016–2017.Toulouse Scholar Award, https://vpaa.unt.edu/fs/recognition/list/toulouse