Keshab K. Parhi

Keshab Parhi is the Distinguished McKnight University Professor and inaugural Erwin A. Kelen Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota's College of Engineering. He has been a permanent faculty member since 1988 and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine.

• B.Tech., IIT Kharagpur (1982)
• M.S., University of Pennsylvania (1984)
• Ph.D., UC Berkeley (1988)

His research spans VLSI architecture design for signal processing, machine learning, biomedical systems, homomorphic encryption, and DNA/molecular computing. Key projects include high-speed transceivers, low-power bio-signal classification, and novel cryptographic architectures.

Recent publications focus on homomorphic encryption for privacy-preserving AI, hyperdimensional computing for energy-efficient classification, and neural network accelerators with pipelined architectures.

Scientific Awards

• IEEE Fellow (1996)
• IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2003)
• IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize (2001)
• ACM Fellow (2020)
• AIMBE Fellow (2022)
• National Academy of Inventors (2020)

Dr. Parhi has advised 52 PhD students and 65+ MS/MEng theses, while leading the Parhi Research Group. His work contributes to UN SDGs through advancements in low-power computing and medical diagnostics.