PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Amit Acharyya

Amit Acharyya is an electrical engineering professor whose AI research links machine-learning hardware and VLSI systems with healthcare. He worked as a Scientist-B at DRDO in Hyderabad, earned a PhD at Southampton in 2011, and held a research fellowship there before taking assistant professor posts at IIT Guwahati and IIT Hyderabad. His coauthored work includes PP-Net for estimating blood pressure and heart rate from PPG signals, a reconfigurable VLSI architecture for deep-learning-based forelimb and hindlimb gesture recognition in rehabilitation, and an inductive GNN method for estimating ASIC power from RTL simulation. He received the Institution of Engineers, India’s Young Engineer Award in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 2015; as of October 2026, he is a professor in Electrical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Hyderabad, with research interests in embedded AI and VLSI systems for next-generation healthcare.

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Timeline

  1. 2005–2011

    From DRDO to Southampton

    From September 2005 to June 2007, he works as a Scientist-B at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Hyderabad. He completes a PhD in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton in 2011.

  2. 2011–2012

    A fellowship and IIT Guwahati

    From January 2011 to July 2011, he works as a research fellow at the Pervasive Systems Centre in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. In August 2011, he becomes an assistant professor in IIT Guwahati’s Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

  3. 2012

    Assistant professor at IIT Hyderabad

    In July 2012, he joins IIT Hyderabad as an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering.

  4. 2015

    A Young Engineer Award

    The Institution of Engineers, India gives him its Young Engineer Award in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 2015.

  5. 2020

    PP-Net for vital signs

    In 2020, he coauthors PP-Net, a deep-learning framework for estimating blood pressure and heart rate from PPG signals.

  6. June 2023

    Rehabilitation gesture recognition

    In June 2023, he coauthors a reconfigurable VLSI architecture for deep-learning-based forelimb and hindlimb gesture recognition in rehabilitation.

  7. 2025

    Inductive GNN for ASIC power

    In 2025, he coauthors an inductive GNN method for estimating average power in synthesized ASIC designs from RTL simulation.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at IIT Hyderabad

    From November 2017, he serves as an associate professor in IIT Hyderabad’s Department of Electrical Engineering, then becomes professor there in September 2022. As of October 2026, he is also a professor in Artificial Intelligence, with research interests in machine-learning hardware, embedded AI, and VLSI systems for next-generation healthcare.

Career

  1. Since 2012Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadAssistant Professor, Professor
  2. 2011University of SouthamptonResearch Fellow
  3. 2011–2012Indian Institute of Technology GuwahatiAssistant Professor
  4. 2005–2007Ministry of DefenceScientist-B

Education

  1. 2011University of SouthamptonPhD

From the biography.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Southampton. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Dr. Amit Acharyya, EE, IITH people.iith.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Amit Acharyya - IEEE TNANO tnano.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Dr. Amit Acharyya, EE, IITH people.iith.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Amit Acharyya csauthors.net. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Amit Acharyya | IIT Hyderabad iith.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Faculty – Department of Artificial Intelligence ai.iith.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.