Debendra Das Sharma

Dr. Debendra Das Sharma is an Intel Senior Fellow and co-GM of Memory and I/O Technologies in the Data Platforms and Artificial Intelligence Group at Intel Corporation. He is a leading expert on I/O subsystem and interface architecture. Dr. Das Sharma is a member of the Board of Directors for the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) and a lead contributor to PCIe specifications since its inception. Dr. Das Sharma is responsible for the development of several, industry-impacting standards including CXL and UCIe. He co-invented and is a founding member of the CXL Consortium, co-leading the CXL Board Technical Task Force. He also co-invented the UCIe chiplet interconnect standard and acts as Chair of the UCIe Consortium. Dr. Das Sharma holds a bachelor’s in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur as well as a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a frequent keynote speaker at various conferences and a Distinguished Lecturer in leading Universities and IEEE. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2019, the Outstanding Engineer Award by IEEE Region 6 in 2021, and the Industrial Pioneer Award by IEEE Circuits and Systems in 2022.