Biography 

Himanshu Thapliyal received the B.Tech. degree in Computer Engineering from G.B. Pant University, India, in 2004, the M.S. degree in VLSI and embedded systems from IIIT Hyderabad, India, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of South Florida, Tampa, in 2011. For one year (2006-2007), he was a Research Assistant in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he was engaged in reversible/adiabatic computing for DSP architectures. He has authored or coauthored more than 40 articles in refereed conferences and journals and is a co-owner of a U.S. patent issued recently. In 2009, he received the Distinguished Graduate Achievement Award from the Graduate and Professional Student Council at USF for outstanding research and academic achievement. In 2010, the IEEE Computer Society awarded him with the Richard E. Merwin Scholarship in recognition of his contributions to student chapter activities, academic achievement and for serving as a student ambassador. In 2011, he received 2010 UPE/CS Award for Academic Excellence from the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society for the Computing Sciences and the IEEE computer Society. His Ph.D. dissertation work on reversible logic has been featured in MIT Technology Review, ACM TechNews, New Scientist Magazine, insideHPC, Softpedia News, etc.

Dr. Thapliyal current research interests include reversible logic, 3D ICs, conservative logic, emerging technologies, Vedic mathematics, design of efficient arithmetic units, design of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) architectures for emerging nanotechnologies, and FPGA-based system design. Two of his research publications were student best paper award finalist at the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) 2006. He was the Workshop Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Future Computing (FC 2006), Las Vegas, NV. He was awarded Rs. 100 000 by the State Government of Uttaranchal, India, for his research on Vedic mathematics. He is currently serving as the IEEE Computer Society representative in IEEE GOLD.