Samarjit Chakraborty

Short CV

Samarjit Chakraborty is a William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics at UNC. Prior to coming here, from 2008 - 2019 he was a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where he held the Chair of Real-Time Computer Systems. From 2003 - 2008 he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2003. 

He served/s on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems, Leibnitz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Design Automation of Embedded Systems, and Springer’s Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering. In addition to funding from several governmental agencies, his research has also been supported by multiple grants from General Motors, Intel, Google, BMW, Audi, Siemens, and Bosch. 

He has been actively involved in various IEEE & ACM conferences and committees – as an Executive Committee Member of ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), as the General Chair of the Embedded Systems Week, as the Chair of the ACM SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award Committee, as a member of the ACM SIGBED Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award Committee, and as a member of the Board of Directors of ACM SIGBED. He was elected to serve as the Chair of ACM SIGBED (ACM’s Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems) from 2025.

Selected Awards

• 2023, ACM Distinguished Speaker
• 2023, Alexander von Humboldt Professorship offer
• 2022, IEEE Fellow
• 2021, Best Paper Award of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) for the paper “Energy Modeling for the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol”, 19(2), March 2020
• 2019, Best Paper Award of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) for the paper “Security in Automotive Networks: Lightweight Authentication and Authorization”, 22(2):25, March 2017
• 2018, ACM Recognition of Service Award
• 2017, Best Paper Award at the 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) for the paper “Estimating the Limits of CPU Power Management for Mobile Games”
• 2017, Best Paper Award at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) for the paper “Effectively Utilizing Elastic Resources in Networked Control Systems”
• 2017, Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) for the paper “Battery Assignment and Scheduling for Drone Delivery Businesses”
• 2013, Best Demo Award at the 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys) for a demo on “Power Management using Game State Detection on Android Smartphones”

Selected Publications

• Bineet Ghosh, Clara Hobbs, Shengjie Xu, F. Donelson Smith, James H. Anderson, P. S. Thiagarajan, Benjamin Berg, Parasara Sridhar Duggirala, Samarjit Chakraborty: Statistical verification of autonomous system controllers under timing uncertainties. Real Time Systems 60(1): 108-149 (2024)
• Philipp H. Kindt, Trinad Chakraborty, Samarjit Chakraborty: How reliable is smartphone-based electronic contact tracing for COVID-19? Communications of the ACM 65(1): 56-67 (2022)
• Clara Hobbs, Bineet Ghosh, Shengjie Xu, Parasara Sridhar Duggirala, Samarjit Chakraborty: Safety Analysis of Embedded Controllers Under Implementation Platform Timing Uncertainties. IEEE Trans. Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 41(11): 4016-4027 (2022)
• Debayan Roy, Licong Zhang, Wanli Chang, Dip Goswami, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Samarjit Chakraborty: Tool Integration for Automated Synthesis of Distributed Embedded Controllers. ACM Trans. Cyber-Physical Systems 6(1): 3:1-3:31 (2022)
• Qing Rao, Samarjit Chakraborty: In-Vehicle Object-Level 3D Reconstruction of Traffic Scenes. IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems 22(12): 7747-7759 (2021)