Srinivas Devadas
Award Recipient
Srinivas Devadas is the Webster Professor of EECS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and was named a Distinguished Alumnus of UCB Electrical Engineering in 2025.
Devadas has worked in the fields of Computer-Aided Design (CAD), computer architecture, computer security, and applied cryptography. His awards include the ACM SIGDA-IEEE CEDA A. Richard Newton Technical Impact award in Electronic Design Automation (2015), the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award (2017), the IEEE Circuits and Systems Charles A. Received Technical Achievement Award (2018), and the ACM SIGSAC Award for Outstanding Innovation (2021). He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. Devadas is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and an Everett Moore Baker teaching award recipient, considered MIT's two highest undergraduate teaching honors.
Award
2026 Eckert-Mauchly Award Recipient
“For pioneering contributions to secure architectures with broad industrial and academic impact.”
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2017 W. Wallace McDowell Award Recipient
“For fundamental contributions that have shaped the field of secure hardware, impacting circuits, microprocessors, and systems.”
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2014 Technical Achievement Award
“For pioneering work in secure hardware, including the invention of Physical Unclonable Functions and single-chip secure processor architectures.”
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