Shubhendu Mukherjee

Shubhendu Mukherjee is a Distinguished Engineer at Cavium Networks and Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and recipient of the 2009 Maurice-Wilkes Award for outstanding contributions to computer architecture. His career spans leadership roles at Intel and Compaq, where he pioneered fault-tolerant microarchitectures and performance modeling innovations.

• Education: PhD (1998) and MS (1993) in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.Tech (1991) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur.

Research Interests
Mukherjee specializes in computer architecture, soft error modeling, and fault-tolerant design. His work includes Redundant Multithreading (RMT), architectural vulnerability modeling, and on-chip interconnect optimization. Recent publications focus on cache soft error anomalies, quantized AVF analysis, and architectural core salvaging for hard error tolerance.

Scientific Awards

• Maurice-Wilkes Award (2009)
• IEEE Fellow (2009)
• ACM Fellow (2011)
• IEEE Top Picks Awards (2003, 2004)
• Intel Divisional Recognition Awards (2002–2009)

Professional Activities
Mukherjee served as General Chair of ASPLOS 2004, Program Chair of HPCA 2011, and editorial board member for IEEE Micro, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. He also led Intel's SPEARS group (2001–2010), driving architectural innovations in enterprise processors.