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Kanad Basu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), affiliated with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. He holds the title of Fellow, Eugene McDermott Distinguished Professor. Previously, he worked at IBM and Synopsys, and was an Assistant Research Professor at New York University. His research focuses on hardware security, AI hardware, quantum computing, and VLSI testing. Basu has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications, 2 patents, and received the Best Paper Award at the 2011 International Conference on VLSI Design.
Education: PhD and MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida (2012), BE in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, India (2007).
Research Interests: His work spans hardware security (e.g., side-channel attacks, hardware Trojans), functional safety in automotive systems, quantum computing EDA tools, and AI-driven verification techniques. Recent projects include secure assertion generation using LLMs, radiation hardening for edge AI, and quantum circuit equivalence checking.
Recent Achievements: Won NSF CAREER Award (2025), served on TPC for IEEE DATE 2026 and IEEE Quantum Week 2026, and led the TIES lab to win NSF CAREER funding. His lab has produced over 15 PhD graduates, many now in industry roles at Intel, NXP, and Oak Ridge National Lab.
Awards: Includes NSF CAREER (2025), IEEE Top Picks (2024/2023), and Blavatnik nomination (2019). Academic service roles include associate editorships for IEEE Design & Test and IET Computers.
Lab & Collaborations: The Trustworthy & Intelligent Embedded Systems (TIES) lab collaborates with NSF CHEST and TxACE. Ongoing projects involve quantum simulation frameworks (QuaSi), secure DNN acceleration (MENDNet), and radiation-aware functional safety.
