Saurabh Bagchi is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is the founding Director of a university-wide resilience center at Purdue called CRISP (2017-present). He is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2018), the Adobe Faculty Award (2017), the AT&T Labs VURI Award (2016), the Google Faculty Award (2015), and the IBM Faculty Award (2014). He was elected to the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors for the 2017-19 term. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist (2013), a Senior Member of IEEE (2007) and of ACM (2009), and a Distinguished Speaker for ACM (2012). He is a co-lead on the $39M WHIN-SMART center at Purdue and was previously a co-PI on the NSF NEES center (2009-14).
Saurabh's research interest is in dependable computing and distributed systems. He is proudest of the 21 PhD students who have graduated from his research group and who are in various stages of building wonderful careers in industry or academia. In his group, he and his students have way too much fun building and breaking real systems. Along the way this has led to 10 best paper awards or nominations at IEEE/ACM conferences. Saurabh received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BS degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, all in Computer Science. He was selected as the inaugural International Visiting Professor at IIT Kharagpur in 2018.