Cybersecurity and Quantum Biomedical Interdisciplinary Technologies (Cy-QuBIT) Lab

Dr. Himanshu Thapliyal is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 2011 where he received the ‘Distinguished Graduate Achievement Award’. From 2012-14, he worked as a designer of processor test solutions at Qualcomm, where he received the Qualcomm QualStar Award for contributions to memory built-in self-test. He joined as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA in 2014 where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. He has been ranked in the top 30 among scientists throughout the world in the field of Computer Hardware and Architecture (Stanford/Elsevier published dataset). He received the 2019 NSF CAREER award and the 2020 IEEE-CS TCVLSI Mid-Career Research Achievement Award. In March 2022, he was selected to the Inaugural Class of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors which recognizes his distinguished contributions to society and the profession. In January 2025, he was selected as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor among 20 chosen from more than 140 technology leaders and innovators nominated.

He has authored over 200 journal/conference articles with over 7300 citations (h-index of 51), 3 US Patents, and received Best Paper/Poster awards at IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things,  Cyber and Information Security Research Conference. He served/serves on the steering committee and was the general chair of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI and the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. He has edited a Springer book on Quantum Computing. He co-founded the IEEE International Workshop on Quantum Computing. He is the track chair of Quantum Computing in the 2025 Design Automation Conference (DAC). He is serving as the Section Editor of the Springer Nature Computer Science and is leading two sections: (i) Quantum Computing and Emerging Technologies, and (ii) Emerging Trends in Sensors, IoT and Smart Systems. He served as the Senior Editor of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, the Associate Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and the editorial board member of the Microelectronics Journal. He is currently serving as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems.

Dr. Thapliyal’s students have received several awards including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for outstanding Ph.D. student, the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Outstanding Master’s Student, ECE Outstanding Masters research award, ECE outstanding undergraduate research awards, and the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant. His recent Ph.D. graduate in quantum computing has joined academia as the tenure track Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA. His students have secured positions in companies such as Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, Lexmark, United Launch Alliance.

Research Interests:

Quantum Computing

Cybersecurity of Cyber-physical Systems (CPS)

Applied Machine Learning for Healthcare and CPS

Adiabatic and Reversible computing

Emerging Technologies

My Reversible Philosophy:
“If everything in this world would be reversible then no pain, no sorrow, nothing to lose can get back everything again. Minimum disturbance, Minimum entropy”

Contact:

Dr. Himanshu Thapliyal, Director

Cybersecurity and Quantum Biomedical Interdisciplinary Technologies (Cy-QuBIT) Lab

EECS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Distinguished Contributor and Distinguished Visitor, IEEE Computer Society

2025 IEEE Quantum Computing Workshop: https://tinyurl.com/quantumworkshop1

Section Editor I (Section EiC): SNCS Quantum Computing and Emerging Technologies

Section Editor II (Section EiC): SNCS Emerging Trends in Sensors, IoT and Smart Systems

Email: hthapliyal@utk.edu