Srinivas devadas biography of albert

Indian-American computer scientist

Srini Devadas is an Indian-American computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) who conducts research on computer security, computer architectures, and applied cryptography.

His work has spanned topics such as analytical cache modeling, single-chip secure processors, and hardware information flow tracking. Among his research contributions is the invention of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), an important tool for device authentication and key generation.

Devadas graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in 1985. He earned both a master's and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, working under the supervision of Arthur Richard Newton.

He has been a member of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department