Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds a joint appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He is coauthor or coeditor of six books, and the author or coauthor of more than 200 refereed technical articles. His research interests center around architectures, methodologies, software techniques, and tools for design of signal processing systems. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He has held industrial positions as a Researcher at the Hitachi America Semiconductor Research Laboratory (San Jose, California), and Compiler Developer at Kuck & Associates (Champaign, Illinois).
Dr. Bhattacharyya is director of the Maryland DSPCAD Research Group. He serves as associate editor for the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, and Journal of Signal Processing Systems. He has also served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Systems, and guest editor for the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, IEEE Computer Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
Dr. Bhattacharyya serves as Director of Membership Services for the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010-2012). He has served as Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (2008-2009). He has served as General Chair or Co-chair for the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (2010); International Workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (2004); IEEE International Conference on Application Specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (2003); IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (2007); International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (2002); and International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (2008). He has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (2006); the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (2009); IEEE International Conference on Application Specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (2002); IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (2008); IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (2008); and International Workshop on Embedded Software Optimization (2006). He has served as Topic Co-Chair (Compilers and Code Generation for Embedded Systems) for the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (2008-2010).
Dr. Bhattacharyya's co-authored and co-edited books include the Handbook of Signal Processing Systems (Springer, 2010); Embedded Multiprocessors: Scheduling and Synchronization (second edition: CRC Press, 2009, first edition: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000); Embedded Computer Vision (Springer, 2008); Memory Management for Synthesis of DSP Software (CRC Press, 2006); Domain-Specific Processors: Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2003); and Software Synthesis from Dataflow Graphs (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996).
Dr. Bhattacharyya is a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to design optimization for signal processing." He has been a Nokia Distinguished Lecturer (Finland) and Fulbright Senior Specialist (Austria and Germany). He has received the NSF Career Award (USA). He has received Best Paper Awards at the International Workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation; and IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems.