Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay is an Indian cryptographer and professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is currently serving as the Associate Dean of Research & Development at IIT Kharagpur since August 2025. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in 2021 for his contributions to micro-architectural security and cryptographic engineering. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay’s research interests include Hardware security, Cryptographic Engineering, Design Automation of Cryptosystems, VLSI of Cryptosystems, and Cryptography. He has authored several textbooks, including Cryptography and Network Security, which has been cited 1,572 times, according to Google Scholar. He was elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2021. In 2025, he was elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (FNA), Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc), and was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to design and analysis of hardware security primitives.” He is also an invited Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) (2022). In 2025, he was named a Pingala Interactions in Computing (PIC) Laureate by ACM India.