Dr. Jeyavijayan "JV" Rajendran, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University was awarded the 2021 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) CEDA Kuh Early Career Award for his contributions to secure and trustworthy integrated circuits in the field of electronic design automation. The award, which is the highest honor for young faculty in the field of electronic design automation, was presented at the 2021 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, held in Munich, Germany, on Nov. 5.
Each year, the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award honors one individual who has made innovative and substantial technical contributions to the area of electronic design automation in the early stages of his or her career (within eight years of getting the highest educational degree). The award is named in honor of the late Ernest S. Kuh, who made pioneering contributions to circuit theory, electronic design automation and engineering education.
The hardware security community has been particularly kind and very helpful to young academics.
“I feel honored and humbled, and feel grateful to the students, mentors, colleagues and staff in the department and the college at large,” Rajendran said. “The hardware security community has been particularly kind and very helpful to young academics – be it the faculty working on the same research problem at a different university or program managers. They always have provided me with great feedback to shape my research. Though my name is on the award, I believe it belongs to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M and the hardware security community.
Rajendran’s research interests are in hardware security with a specific focus on supply chain vulnerabilities and bug detection. His research has won many awards, such as the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation Outstanding Young Faculty Award and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research.