Bio-sketch

Dr. Prasun Ghosal is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University), Shibpur, India. He has been a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, USA during 2013 - 2014 (under Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship from UGC, GOI) and a Heidelberg Laureate Post Doctoral Fellow (visited University of Heidelberg, Germany) in 2013. He received the PhD degree (Engg) from Bengal Engineering and Science University in 2011, M.Tech. and B.Tech. in Radio Physics and Electronics from Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India in 2005 and 2002 respectively, B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics in 1999 from University of Calcutta, India.

His research is in Performance Centric, Power-Aware Nanoscale Electronic System Design and Computing including Performance Centric Layout Design of 3D Integrated Circuits, Performance-centric, Power-Aware Design of Networks-on-Chips (NoC), and Post Silicon Nanoscale Technologies and Computing viz. Memristors, DNA Computing, Reversible Circuit Synthesis etc. His research has been funded by AICTE, DIT, MCIT, Govt of India, IEI etc. He has contributed more than 100 research articles in several peer-reviewed avenues of international journals and conferences. Besides a patent he has also contributed towards several book chapters in edited volumes from different publishers including CRC press, and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg etc.

He is a recipient of Young Scientist Research Award 2011 from Indian Science Congress Association, recipient of several Best Paper Awards in IEEE iNIS 2016, ICAEE - 2014 from IEEE CS, ADCONS - 2011 etc., Best Paper Award Nominee in ISVLSI - 2008.

He served as the Vice Chair of the Steering Committee [2014 - 2017] and one of the Founding members of IEEE iNIS (IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems). He has served/is serving as General Chair/Program Chair/Track Chair/TPC member in several conference committees including GLSVLSI, ISVLSI, IEEE iNIS, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE TENSYMP, ICIT, VDAT, IEEE TechSym etc. He has served as the Vice Chair, Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on VLSI (2014-2017), Associate Editor, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (2015-2017), Associate Editor, VLSI Circuits and Systems Letter (2015-2017), Guest Editor, ELSEVIER Integration, The VLSI Journal. He is serving as the Editor, IEEE Ethics and Policy in Technology eNewsletters (IEEE Internet Initiative newsletter and IEEE Future Directions newsletter). Dr. Ghosal is actively involved in activities of several professional bodies as Senior Member, ACM, Member, IEEE, CSTA, ACM, IAENG, CSI, ISCA, EN etc.

Professional Association

Honours, Awards, Recognitions

• Best Paper Award in 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (IEEE iNIS 2016) - 2016 for the following paper.
  • Pratima Chatterjee, Mayukh Sarkar and Prasun Ghosal, "Computing in Ribosomes: Implementing Sequential Circuits using mRNA-Ribosome System", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS 2016), [double blind review], December 19-21, 2016, Gwalior, India.
• Elected to serve the Executive Committee of IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) Technical Committee on VLSI (TCVLSI) as Vice Chair [2014 - 2017].
• Awarded Outstanding Reviewer status by ELSEVIER. For details please click here. Achieved: July 2014.
• Heidelberg Laureate Forum Fellowship from Heidelberg Laureate Fellowship Foundation, Germany.
  • Duration of 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum: September 22 to 27, 2013
  • Venue: Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Coverings: Travel (USD 1600 approx.), boarding, lodging, health insurance etc.
• Senior Member Grade from ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) in 2013.
• Raman Fellowship for Post Doctoral Research (one year) for Indian Scholars in United States for the year 2013-14 awarded by University Grants Commission, India.
  • Duration: June, 2013 - June, 2014. .
• Young Scientist Research Award (National) for the year 2010-11 from Indian Science Congress Association in the area of Information and Communication Science & Technology (including Computer Science).
• Best Paper Award with a cash prize from IEEE Computer Society and Best presentation award in Soft Computing Section in International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE) - 2014 for the following paper.
  • Md Zeeshan Ashraf, Dheeraj Kumar Chouwdhary, Rohan Lal Das, and Prasun Ghosal, "An Efficient and Optimized Recommendation System Using Social Network Knowledge Base", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE '14), Vellore, India, January 9-11, 2014.
• Bronze Leaf Certificates for following two papers in IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PrimeAsia) - 2012.
  • Prasun Ghosal, and Arunava Biswas, Hexagonal Minimum Steiner Tree Construction for Y Architecture: A Case of Non-Manhattan Routing, In Proceedings of IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PrimeAsia 2012), BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India, Dec 05-07, 2012.
  • Prasun Ghosal, and Tuhin Subhra Das, L2STAR: A Star Type Level-2 2D Mesh Architecture for NoC, In proceedings of IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PrimeAsia 2012), BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India, Dec 05-07, 2012.
• Best Paper Award in International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security (ADCONS) - 2011 for the following paper.
  • Prasun Ghosal, Hafizur Rahaman, Satrajit Das, Arindam Das, and Parthasarathi Dasgupta, "Obstacle Aware Routing in 3D Integrated Circuits", In proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security (Adcons-2011), December 16-18, 2011, NITK-Surathkal, Mangalore, India, pp. 573-578.
• Best Paper Award Nominee in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Montpellier, France, April 2008 for the following paper.
  • Prasun Ghosal, Tuhina Samanta, Hafizur Rahaman, and Parthasarathi Dasgupta, "Thermal Aware Placement of Standard Cells and Gate Arrays: Studies and Observations", In Proceedings of the IEEE CS International Symposium on VLSI Design (ISVLSI 2008), Montpellier, France, April 2008, pp. 369-374.
• National Merit Scholarship for B.Sc. (Major in Physics) Examination, 1999.
• National Merit Scholarship for Madhyamik Examination, 1994.

Editorial Boards

• Editor, IEEE Ethics and Policy in Technology eNewsletters (IEEE Internet Initiative newsletter and IEEE Future Directions newsletter).
• Guest Editor, ELSEVIER Integration, The VLSI Journal, Special Issue On: Hardware Assisted Techniques for IoT and Big Data Applications
• Associate Editor, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (Hardware Technology for CE) [2015-2017]
• Associate Editor, VLSI Circuits and Systems Letter (Letter of Technical Committee on VLSI, IEEE-CS) [2015-2017]

Reviewer Panel

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.

Reviewer, IEEE Access

Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Reviewer, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing (JETC)

Reviewer, ELSEVIER Integration, The VLSI Journal

Reviewer, ELSEVIER International Journal on Computers and Electrical Engineering (Awarded Outstanding Reviewer status in July 2014).

Reviewer, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems

Reviewer, IET Networks

Reviewer, Algorithmica, Springer

Reviewer, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers

Reviewer, IETE Journal of Research

Invited Talks

• Invited talk on "Internet of Things: Expectations vs. Reality" at Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India on March 26, 2018.
• Invited talk on "Are We Ready for a Biomolecular Computer? Present Status and Challenges" at Future Institute of Engineering and Management, West Bengal, India on March 29, 2017 in Recent Trends in Bio-Electronics and DNA Computing (RTBDC 2017).
• Invited talk on "Key Research Challenges on Future Generation Technologies for Nanoscale System Design and Computing" at ABV-IIITM, Gwalior, India on November 18, 2016 during 4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE (IWCCMP 2016), November 18-20, 2016.
• Invited talk on "IoT and Hardware Security" at Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering, Bankura, West Bengal, India on September 23, 2016 during Five Days National Workshop on Systems and Security (NWSS), September 22-26, 2016.
• Invited talk on “Emerging VLSI Architectures and Technologies for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications” at Calcutta Institute of Technology, Howrah, India (July 17, 2015).
• Invited talk on “Future Generation Nanoscale System Design and Computing: Key Issues, Studies, and Observations” at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) attached to Laboratoire of Informatique, Robotique, Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM) in junction with University of Montpellier, France (July 07, 2015).
• Invited talk on "3D NoC: A Promising Alternative For Tomorrow's Nanoscale System Design" at JIS College of Engineering, India during September 2014. (pdf)
• Couples of guest lectures as a part of the course on Advanced Topics in VLSI Systems (CSCE 6933) during Winter 2013 at Department of CSE, University of North Texas, USA.
  • "Challenges During Placement in 3D Integrated Circuits" (pdf)
  • "Placement and Routing in VLSI - Practices and Challenges" (pdf)
• Invited talk on "Challenges during Placement in 3D Integrated Circuits" at IIT Roorkee, India, February, 2013.
• Invited talk on "How to do research?" in 5-day Workshop on "Research Competency Development" (July 17-21, 2012 at MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah, India) (pdf).
• International Workshop on Embedded Computing and Communication (IWECC) - 2011, Kochi, India, Invited Speaker
• Invited talk on "A Journey from SoC to NoC" in 5-day International Workshop on "CHALLENGES IN VLSI DESIGN: CUTTING EDGE PERSPECTIVE" - 2008.
• Invited talk on "Managing Hot Spots in VLSI Design: Some Results" in an 1-day Workshop on "VLSI INTERCONNECT ROUTING IN THE NANOMETRIC REGIME" - 2008, IIM Calcutta, India. (pdf)

Services to Conference Committees

• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2018), Technical Program Committee Member, July 9-11, 2018, Hong Kong SAR, China.
• IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2018), Technical Program Committee Member, May 27 - 30, 2018, Florence, Italy.
• IEEE PerAwareCity 2018 – Third IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation Systems("Smarter Cities for Better Social Good") Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018 [March 19-23], Technical Program Committee Member, March 19, 2018, Athens, Greece.
• 1st IEEE International Workshop on Artificially Intelligent Smart SocieTies (AIST 2017), Technical Program Committee Member, [co located with 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2017)], May 29, 2017, Hong Kong, China.
• IEEE International 5G SUMMIT Kolkata (IEEE 5G SUMMIT 2017), Publicity Chair (Academics), March 17-18, 2017, SENSES Hotel, Kolkata, INDIA.
• 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (IEEE ATC 2017), Technical Program Committee Member, August 4-8, 2017, San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
• 1st IEEE International Workshop on Artificially Intelligent Smart SocieTies (AIST 2017), Publicity Chair, [co located with 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2017)], May 29, 2017, Hong Kong, China.
• 7th ACM Workshop on MobileHealth (MobileHealth 2017), General Chair, [co located with 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2017)], July 10-14, 2017, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
• 3rd IEEE International Conference on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS 2017), Vice Chair, Steering Committee, General Chair, December 18-20, 2017, Bhopal, India.
• IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2017), Technical Program Committee Member, May 28 - 31, 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2017) Organizing Committee as Publication Chair, Technical Program Committee Member, July 3-5, 2017, Bochum, Germany.
• 13th International IEEE India Conference IEEE INDICON 2016, Technical Program Committee Member, December 16-18, 2016, Bengaluru, India.
• Advisory Board for special session “Methodologies for VLSI System Optimization and Recent Advances” in conjunction with IEEE TENCON 2016, Technologies for Smart Nation, November 22 - 25, 2016, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
• IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS 2016), Vice Chair, Steering Committee, TPC Chair, December 19-21, 2016, Gwalior, India.
• 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2016 - Privacy and Security in Smart City Environment track), Technical Program Committee Member, July 18-21, 2016, Toulouse, France.
• 20th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT 2016), Technical Program Committee Member, May 24-27, 2016, Guwahati, India.
• 26th edition of ACM Great Lakes VLSI Symposium (GLSVLSI 2016), Technical Program Committee member, May 18 - 20 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2016), Technical Program Committee member, May 22 - 25, 2016, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2016) Organizing Committee as Publication Chair, Technical Program Committee Member, July 11-13, 2016, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS 2015), Vice Chair, Steering Committee, TPC Chair, December 21-23, 2015, Indore, India.
• The 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2015), Technical Program Committee Member, August 10-14, 2015, Beijing, China.
• 2nd International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security System (ACSS 2015), Technical Program Committee Member, Kolkata, India during 23-25 May, 2015.
• 25th edition of ACM Great Lakes VLSI Symposium (GLSVLSI 2015), Program Committee Member, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA during May 20-22, 2015.
• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2015), Publicity Chair, Technical Program Committee Member.
• IEEE TENSYMP 2015, Technical Program Committee Member, Ahmedabad, India during 13-15 May, 2015.
• 13th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT 2014), Publication Chair, Technical Track Chair, Session Chair, Bhubaneswar, India during 22-24 December, 2014.
• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2014), Publication Chair, Program Committee Member, Session Chair
• 24th edition of ACM Great Lakes VLSI Symposium (GLSVLSI 2014), Program Committee Member, Session Chair
• The Fourth International Conference on Networks & Communications (NETCOM 2012), Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Control (ICAC3)-2013, Program Committee Member
• International Symposium on Electronic Design (ISED) - 2012, Publicity Chair, Session Chair, Organizer.
• 2nd National Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Design Techniques (NCACD2012), Technical Committee Member
• International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC-2012), Program Committee Member
• International Conference on Eco-friendly Computing and Communication Systems (ICECCS), Program Committee Member
• VLSI Design and Test Symposium (VDAT) - 2012, Keynote Chair, Session Chair, Organizer.
• National Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Design Techniques (NCACD) - 2011, Technical Committee Member
• Workshop on Embedded Computing and Communication (IWECC) - 2011, Invited Speaker, Program Committee member.
• IEEE TechSym 2011 - Technical Committee Member

Services to Other Workshops/Symposia/Short Term Courses

• Invited talk on “Emerging VLSI Architectures and Technologies for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications” at Calcutta Institute of Technology, Howrah, India (July 17, 2015).
• Invited talk on “Future Generation Nanoscale System Design and Computing: Key Issues, Studies, and Observations” at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) attached to Laboratoire of Informatique, Robotique, Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM) in junction with University of Montpellier, France (July 07, 2015).
• 5-day Workshop on "Research Competency Development" (July 17-21, 2012 at MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah, India) - Invited Speaker
• One day seminar on "Wireless Health" and one day workshop on "Low Power Embedded Systems Using MSP430" (January 27, 2012 at BESU, Shibpur), Organizing Chair.
• All India Seminar on "ROLE OF ICT IN IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE" (March 26-27, 2010 at Sir R N Mukherjee Auditorium, IEI and BESU Campus, Shibpur Organized by The Computer Engineering Division, The Institution of Engineers (India) jointly with Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur) - Technical Track Chair, Program Committee member.
• 5-day International Workshop on "CHALLENGES IN VLSI DESIGN: CUTTING EDGE PERSPECTIVE" - 2008, Chair, Organizing Committee Member, Technical Session Chair and Speaker.
• 1-day Workshop on "VLSI INTERCONNECT ROUTING IN THE NANOMETRIC REGIME" - 2008, Invited Speaker.
• 5-day Short Term Course on "FORMAL LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY" - 2006, Convener, Organizing Committee Member.

Other Activities

• First e-magazine in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur from Department of Information Technology named as EPITOME - Founder and Chief Editor.