Amit Acharyya

Professor Amit Acharyya is a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. Previously he served as Associate Professor (2017–2022) and Assistant Professor (2012–2017) at the same institution, and earlier as Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati and as Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. He currently leads the AESICD Lab and is actively engaged in cutting-edge research spanning VLSI systems, low-power design, machine-learning hardware, biomedical devices, digital arithmetic, hardware security, and electric-vehicle battery monitoring.

Education:

• PhD – University of Southampton, UK

Research Interests:

Professor Acharyya’s work centers on the design of resource-constrained VLSI systems with emphasis on ultra-low power techniques, hardware accelerators for machine learning, and edge-computing solutions. His group is developing application-specific chips for remote health monitoring targeting cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, autism spectrum disorder, neurological disorders, and orthopaedic challenges. Additional thrust areas include hardware–software co-design for accelerated cancer diagnostics, efficient digital arithmetic circuits, hardware security primitives, real-time battery-health monitoring for electric vehicles, and nanomagnetic logic systems.

Scientific Awards & Recognition:

• Digital Trail Blazer Award, Digital Technology Conclave 2016
• Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Fellowship 2015–16
• Young Engineer Award, IEI 2015
• Visiting Research Fellowships, University of Southampton (2015–2017) & Newcastle University (2016–2017)
• Summer Fellowship, University of Liverpool 2015

Advising & Funding:

He has mentored 15 current PhD scholars and 13 graduated students, many funded by DST, government R&D labs, and industry partners. Research projects span VLSI DSP, IoT for healthcare, structural health monitoring, AI-based fault-tolerant IC design, hardware security, and battery-management systems.

Research Laboratory:

He heads the Application-Specific Integrated Circuits & Devices (AESICD) Laboratory at IIT Hyderabad, which focuses on developing next-generation low-power SoCs and domain-specific accelerators.