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BACKGROUND

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), and is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and the Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center (MCRIC).

He is an author of seven books, and over 400 papers in the areas of signal processing, embedded systems, biomedical engineering, machine learning, wireless communication, and wireless sensor networks. 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.

Dr. Bhattacharyya has previously held industrial positions as a Researcher at the Hitachi America Semiconductor Research Laboratory (San Jose, California), and Compiler Developer at Kuck & Associates (Champaign, Illinois). He has held a visiting research position at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (Rome, New York). From January 2021 through December 2024, he held a part-time visiting position as Chair of Excellence in Design Methodologies and Tools at the National Institute for Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rennes, France. From September 2018 through December 2020, he held a part-time position as International Research Chair, joint with INSA/IETR, and INRIA in Rennes, France. From January 2015 through December 2018, he was a part time visiting professor in the Department of Pervasive Computing at the Tampere University of Technology (now Tampere University), Finland, as part of the Finland Distinguished Professor Programme (FiDiPro).

Dr. Bhattacharyya is director of the Maryland DSPCAD Research Group. He serves as co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Signal Processing Systems. He has previously served as Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Systems, and as Guest Editor for several other journals.

Dr. Bhattacharyya has served as Director of Membership Services for the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010-2012), and Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (2008-2009). He has also served in chairing roles for many technical conferences. 

Dr. Bhattacharyya is director of the Maryland DSPCAD Research Group. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS). He has previously served as co-Editor-in-Chief for JSPS, and Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Systems, and as Guest Editor for several other journals.

Dr. Bhattacharyya has served as the Founding Director of Membership Services for the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010-2012), and Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (2008-2009). He has also served in chairing roles for many technical conferences.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Fulbright Senior Specialist (Austria 2009 and 2015, Germany 2005) 
• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2011) 
• FiDiPro Professor, Finland Distinguished Professor Programme,  awarded by TEKES, The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Finland, 2015–2017)
• Jimmy Lin Award for Entrepreneurship, (University of Maryland, 2012)

Signal processing, embedded systems, biomedical engineering, machine learning, wireless communication, and wireless sensor networks.