Ayan Palchaudhuri is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E&ECE) of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He has received the M.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), IIT Kharagpur, in 2015. He has over two-and-a-half years of work experience as a Junior Project Assistant in the Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur. His research interests include VLSI Architecture Design and Computer Arithmetic. He is the co-author of two conference papers, one journal, one book chapter and a patent has been filed based on his research work. His research work has been recognized with the Best Poster Award in the Student Research Symposium of the 21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) 2014.
Rajat Subhra Chakraborty is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, U.S.A.) and a B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University (India) in 2005. He has work experience at National Semiconductor and AMD. His research interests include: Hardware Security, VLSI Design and Design Automation and Reversible Watermarking for digital content protection. He is the co-author of two published books, four book chapters and over 50 publications in international journals and conferences of repute. He is one of the recipients of the "IBM Faculty Award" for 2012, and a "Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.) Fellowship" in 2014. He holds 1 U.S. patent, and 2 more international patents and 3 Indian patents have been filed based on his research work. Dr. Chakraborty is a member of IEEE and ACM.