Prabuddha Chakraborty

Prabuddha Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine. His research interest lies in the intersecting areas of Artificial Intelligence, Internet-of-Things, and system security. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He has worked within the Security Software Team at Texas Instruments and the FPGA acceleration R&D team at Xilinx. His research effort has so far led to more than 20 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles published or accepted in prestigious venues such as Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Neural Computing and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, International Test Conference, and Design Automation Conference. He has more than 10 US patents & copyrights filed/granted for different technologies he has developed. He is a recipient of the Certificate of Outstanding Merit from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida in 2021, for his academic and research excellence. He has also received several awards/honors for his research contributions including the TTTC’s E. J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis 2022 Award, Best Hardware Demo Award (at IEEE HOST 2019) and the Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security award 2021 (by IEEE HSTTC).

Research Interests:

  1. System Security:

    • Hardware Security (Trojans, Obfuscation, Side-Channel)

    • Hardware Software Co-Security (Software Analysis, Timing Side-Channel)

    • Applied Artificial Intelligence for Security

  2. Edge Intelligence and Internet-of-Things (IoT):

    • Applied Artificial Intelligence for efficient data storage @ edge/IoT

    • Optimal IoT system design generation for efficiency & security

    • Image Processing & Computer Vision for IoT systems

    • Intelligent Transport Systems