Himanshu Thapliyal, Ph.D.
Inaugural Walden and Paula Rhines Endowed Quantum Informatics Professor
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Dr. Himanshu Thapliyal is the Inaugural Walden and Paula Rhines Endowed Quantum Informatics Professor in the Lyle School of Engineering at 51做厙 (51做厙), Dallas, Texas, USA. He is a Full Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Department of Computer Science (CS) at 51做厙.
Dr. Thapliyal leads a research team that was among the winners of the NIH Quantum Computing Biomedical Research Innovation Lab. Previously, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), he spearheaded the institution’s designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R) and developed new programs in cybersecurity, including a minor, concentration, and certification track.
He has been ranked in the top 20 most-cited scientists worldwide in the field of Computer Hardware and Architecture (Stanford/Elsevier dataset). His recognitions include the NSF CAREER Award (2019), the IEEE-CS TCVLSI Mid-Career Research Achievement Award (2020), the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Award (2022), and his selection as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (2025).
Dr. Thapliyal has authored 200+ journal and conference publications, holds 3 U.S. patents, and has received multiple Best Paper/Poster Awards at leading venues such as ISVLSI, GLSVLSI, ICCE, and the IEEE World Forum on IoT. His work has been cited more than 7,700 times with an h-index of 53.
He has held key leadership roles in premier conferences, serving on steering committees and as General Chair of the IEEE ISVLSI, ACM GLSVLSI, and the upcoming 19th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference. He also co-founded the IEEE International Workshop on Quantum Computing, served as Quantum Computing Track Chair at the 2025 Design Automation Conference (DAC), and is currently the Section Editor for Quantum Computing at Springer Nature. He has also edited a Springer book on Quantum Computing.
Dr. Thapliyal leads a research team that was among the winners of the NIH Quantum Computing Biomedical Research Innovation Lab. Previously, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), he spearheaded the institution’s designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R) and developed new programs in cybersecurity, including a minor, concentration, and certification track.
He has been ranked in the top 20 most-cited scientists worldwide in the field of Computer Hardware and Architecture (Stanford/Elsevier dataset). His recognitions include the NSF CAREER Award (2019), the IEEE-CS TCVLSI Mid-Career Research Achievement Award (2020), the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Award (2022), and his selection as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (2025).
Dr. Thapliyal has authored 200+ journal and conference publications, holds 3 U.S. patents, and has received multiple Best Paper/Poster Awards at leading venues such as ISVLSI, GLSVLSI, ICCE, and the IEEE World Forum on IoT. His work has been cited more than 7,700 times with an h-index of 53.
He has held key leadership roles in premier conferences, serving on steering committees and as General Chair of the IEEE ISVLSI, ACM GLSVLSI, and the upcoming 19th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference. He also co-founded the IEEE International Workshop on Quantum Computing, served as Quantum Computing Track Chair at the 2025 Design Automation Conference (DAC), and is currently the Section Editor for Quantum Computing at Springer Nature. He has also edited a Springer book on Quantum Computing.
Education
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FloridaResearch
- Quantum Computing
- Cybersecurity for IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and Critical Infrastructure
- Applied Computing: Quantum and AI in Healthcare and CPS
- Adiabatic and Reversible Computing for Energy-Efficient Systems
- Emerging Technologies in Computing and Systems
Publications
- M. S. H. Onim, T. S. Humble and H. Thapliyal, "Emotion Recognition in Older Adults with Quantum Machine Learning and Wearable Sensors," 2025 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Kalamata, Greece, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISVLSI65124.2025.11130356.
- S. Bhowmik, T. Perciano, and H. Thapliyal, “Quantum transfer learning to boost dementia detection,” in Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2025 (GLSVLSI ’25), New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, pp. 849–853. doi: .
- M. T. Nasab, W. Yang and H. Thapliyal, "Late Breaking Results: Novel Design of MTJ-Based Unified LIF Spiking Neuron and PUF," 2025 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/DAC63849.2025.11132831.
- M. T. Nasab, H. Thapliyal and G. S. Rose, "MTJ/CMOS-Based CLB Design for Low-Power and CPA-Resistant Secure Nonvolatile FPGA," in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1361-1372, May 2025, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2025.3539670.
- T. Cultice, J. Clark, W. Yang, and H. Thapliyal, “A Novel Hierarchical Security Solution for Controller-Area-Network-Based 3D Printing in a Post-Quantum World,” Sensors, vol. 23, no. 24, Art. no. 24, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.3390/s23249886.
- B. Gaur and H. Thapliyal, "Novel Optimized Designs of Modulo 2n+1 Adder for Quantum Computing," in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 1759-1763, Sept. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TVLSI.2024.3418930.
- J. Clark and H. Thapliyal, "Peephole Optimization for Quantum Approximate Synthesis," 2024 25th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/ISQED60706.2024.10528701
Honors and Awards
- Ranked among the Top 20 most-cited scientists worldwide in the subfield of Computer Hardware & Architecture for the calendar year 2024-2025.
- Winner of NIH Quantum Computing: New Frontiers in Biomedical Research Innovation Lab (2024-2025)
- IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (2025-2028)
- Springer Nature Computer Science Best Paper Award (2025)
- IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Award (2022).
- IEEE-CS TCVLSI Mid-Career Research Achievement Award (2020)
- NSF CAREER Award (2019)
- Steering Committee: ACM GLSVLSI (2023-Present), IEEE ISVLSI (2024-Present)
