Dr. Debendra Das Sharma

Dr. Debendra Das Sharma is an Intel Senior Fellow and Chief I/O Architect in the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation. He is a member of NAE, Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of International Academy of AI Sciences (AAIS). He is a leading expert on I/O subsystem and interface architecture. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG®). He is a co-inventor, founding member, and chair of the UCIe and CXL consortia. He has been a lead contributor to PCIe, CXL, and UCIe specifications since their inception.

Das Sharma has a bachelor’s in technology (with honors) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.​ He holds 230+ US patents and 500+ patents world-wide. He is a frequent keynote speaker, plenary speaker, distinguished lecturer, invited speaker, and panelist at the IEEE Hot Interconnects, IEEE Cool Chips, IEEE 3DIC, SNIA SDC, PCI-SIG Developers Conference, CXL consortium, Open Server Summit, Open Fabrics Alliance, Flash Memory Summit, Intel Innovation, various Universities (CMU, Texas A&M, UIUC), and Intel Developer Forum. He has been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2019, the IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award in 2021, the first PCI-SIG Lifetime Contribution Award in 2022, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Industrial Pioneer Award in 2022.