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<title>Saurabh Bagchi's Candidature for IEEE Computer Society Vice President</title>
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<p>At the IEEE CS North America Student Challenge Competition 2024 in Washington DC with the finalists and co-organizers/judges Deborah, Eric, and Haoliang.</p>
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<p>Awarded the winners of the IEEE CS North America Student Challenge Competition 2024 at a Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.</p>
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<p>Doing something that I love doing, teaching and learning (in my class in Fall 2024)</p>
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<p>At the CS awards ceremony in 2019.</p>
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<p>With my team of the NSF CHORUS Center, at Purdue in 2024. </p>
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<h1>IEEE Computer Society Election 2025 </h1>
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<p>I am a candidate for Vice President of the IEEE Computer Society. I share here my track record in leadership roles, including within IEEE, my rationale for running and my plans to make our computing community even more impactful.</p>
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<li><a href="#who">Who am I?</a></li>
<li><a href="#leader">My track record as a leader</a></li>
<li><a href="#plans">My plans for our computing community</a></li>
<li><a href="#honors">Honors and recognitions</a></li>
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<i> The opinions on this page are mine and are not necessarily those of the IEEE Computer Society or the IEEE. </i>
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<h2 id="who">Who am I?</h2>
<p>I am a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at <b>Purdue University in the US</b>. I am also the <b>Co-Founder and CTO of a cloud computing startup KeyByte</b> (2022-present). My research contributions lie in secure and reliable computing.</p>
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Starting from my <b>undergraduate days at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur</b> where I led the IEEE Student Chapter, I have been involved with IEEE in both participatory and leadership roles. I lead the <b>CS Student Challenge Competitions</b>
(for undergraduate and graduate students the world over), academia-industry visioning workshops at various CS conferences (laying the roadmap for security in distributed systems, assured autonomy, and cyber-physical systems (CPS) resilience), and am the
<b>Co-Chair of the CS Juniors Program</b> (for organizing computing events for K-12 students the world over). Saurabh has led in various organizational roles with the IEEE Technical Community on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT), such as organizing
the DSN Conference and founding the Rising Stars program in 2020 to recognize outstanding contributions from young researchers.
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In my academic capacity, I lead the <b>National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded center CHORUS</b> (2024-present) on resilient CPS, involving 4 universities and 5 industry partners. I lead the <b>Army's Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (A2I2)</b> (2020-present)
on assured autonomous operations, a partnership of 3 universities. I am <b>a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)</b> (2022), <b>an inducted member of IFIP</b> (2020), <b>IEEE CS Golden Core Member</b> (2017) and Distinguished Contributor (2021),
and <b>a Humboldt Fellow</b> (2018).
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I am proudest of the <b>25 PhD and 30 Masters thesis students</b> who have graduated from our research group and who are in various stages of building wonderful careers in industry or academia. I received my <b>MS and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</b>
and my <b>BS degree from IIT Kharagpur, all in Computer Science</b>. I maintain strong connections to my birth land, India, serving as International Visiting Faculty at IIT Kharagpur and IIT Bombay. On a personal level, I have been a 20+ year volunteer with Asha for Education,
an organization that has branches at all major US universities, and that has been providing basic education to underprivileged children in India since 1991. I love my treks on paths all across the globe, trodden and untrodden, with his family.
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<h2 id="leader">My track record as a leader</h2>
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I have been fortunate to have led several teams and efforts that have led to tangible positive impacts in our world. I use this saying as my touchstone: "There are no losers on a winning team, and no winners on a losing team." (Fred Brooks Jr.)
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<b>Chair, Computer Society Student Challenge Competition (2021-current):</b>
The challenge competitions provide a platform for students to create innovative solutions to real-world problems based on real-world datasets, provided by academic and industry teams. These competitions alternately focus on the global student community and the
North America-based student community. For the last Global Student Competition, 500 students registered and for the last North America Competition (2024), 43 teams registered. Each was financially sponsored by IEEE CS and private industry, organized with two other
Board member colleagues (Prof. Deborah Silver and Prof. Joaquim Jorge), and the final happened at an IEEE CS conference.
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<b>Board of Governor Member (2017-20, 2022-24):</b>
I took on various participatory and leadership roles during my stints on the board. These were largely focused on two overarching goals — energizing students and young professionals, and creating synergies between academic and industry professionals. Specific roles
were leading student activities within the Geographical Activities Committee (GAC), IEEE CS representative to IEEE Biometrics Council, Charter Member of CS Distinguished Contributor Recognition Program, and member of Ad-Hoc Committee on expansion of CS activities.
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<b>Distinguished Visitor, IEEE Computer Society (2021-24):</b>
I was selected as a Distinguished Visitor and gave 6 talks (including two keynote talks) at various campuses (IISc Bangalore, University of Lisbon, University of Glasgow, etc.) and CS conferences (keynotes at ISSRE, InC4). Topics included "Turning Padawans to
Jedi Knights: Best practices for training our computing students", "How to have a Terrific or a Terrible Life During Your First Three Years as Faculty", and "Dependability and Data Analytics: A Match Made in the Cloud".
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<b>Co-Chair, IEEE CS Juniors Program (2025); Member (2024):</b>
This is a global program, started in 2024, meant to inspire K-12 students to explore and excel in computing activities. The goal of the program is to spark curiosity in computer science and build lasting relationships with students, educators, and communities.
As Co-Chair, my responsibilities include defining the rubric for selection of projects, coordinating evaluation of the proposals for events, and helping the organizers with the successful execution of the events.
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<b>Steering Committee and Organizing Committee of TCFTC and DSN Conference (7 times in the last 10 years):</b>
I have been a core member of the IEEE CS Technical Community on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFTC). I have been in the Organizing Committee of the primary conference of the TC, Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 7 times in the last 10 years,
including in prominent roles like Founder of the Rising Star Award (2020), Workshop Chair (2021, 2025), Steering Committee (2018-19), and PC Chair (2011).
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<h2 id="plans">My plans for our computing community</h2>
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I have lofty goals to make Computer Society an even better representative for our technical community. My goals are ambitious but grounded in tangible plans to accomplish them.
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<b><i>First,</i> I will energize our organization to become even more of a trusted independent voice in technology matters.</b>
This means we will train our members to enhance their impact through their leading technical contributions and through greater cooperation with standards making bodies (including IEEE) and policy makers. I am bullish that in this time of great technological disruption,
doomsayers about the future of our profession are wrong. Researchers and practitioners like us will grow and flourish and professional societies like ours have a pivotal role to play in harnessing our creativity and passion. I will put in place mentoring and
training programs to enable us to reach this destination.
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As part of this, I will elevate the impact of CS by leading <b>roadmapping efforts in technologies</b> that are being rapidly developed and commercialized. Thus, I will guide these technologies toward serving the greatest good of the greatest number.
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<b><i>Second,</i></b> while I have been on the Board of Governors, I have worked fruitfully to <b>make CS the natural locus for industry and academia to collaborate</b>. I will put in place programs and events where they can come together to undertake joint activities, such as, roadmapping efforts, standards and prototype building, and challenge competitions. These joint activities will further their short-term goals as well as contribute to the long-term flowering of our technical communities.
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<b><i>Third,</i> I will make CS more agile in vetting technologies and promoting the most promising ones that offer solutions to our pressing societal problems.</b>
Through this, I will underline my firm belief that technology is a force for good, and CS needs to be a leader in this movement. I will achieve this through further streamlining of our operations and making sure we are constantly listening to voices outside our board rooms and absorbing and acting upon the cogent pieces of feedback.
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<b><i>Finally,</i> I will be the voice for the thousands of our members</b>
from all across the globe to whom IEEE is but a distant presence. I will achieve this through local member-driven events and at a global level, highlighting that most of technology is human centered. I will demonstrate through collective leadership how we can enhance the human aspects of our technology, both as designers and implementers and as users.
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<h2 id="honors">Honors and Recognitions</h2>
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<p class="c10"><span class="c1">The top-10 list, enabled by a wonderful team of students, post-doctoral scholars, and collaborators from academia and industry, plus the well-wishes of many. </span></p><p class="c10 c12"><span class="c2 c0 c22"></span></p><ol class="c8 lst-kix_1z0jf09j7rzr-0 start" start="1"><li class="c10 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>Spanning the years:</i></b> </span><span class="c1">13 best paper awards or runners-up awards at IEEE/ACM conferences and a <b>Test of Time Award</b>, from the IEEE Technical Committee on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT). This award is given to the work published 10 years back that has had the greatest impact in the area of dependable computing. </span></li><li class="c3 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>June 2024:</i></b></span><span> Awarded as PI and</span><span><a class="c13" href="https://www.choruscomputes.xyz"> </a></span><span class="c14 c0"><a class="c13" href="https://www.choruscomputes.xyz">Director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Center</a></span><span>, from the Computing Directorate. The Center called CHORUS, is for $7M over 5 years, and involves 4 universities (Purdue, Georgia Tech, University of Southern California, and University of Wisconsin at Madison), and 7 industry partners. This is the first NSF CISE-funded center with Purdue as the lead.</span><span class="c17"> </span></li><li class="c21 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>June 2023:</i></b> </span><span>Selected to </span><b>Chair the USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2024</b><span class="c1">, the flagship conference of the USENIX professional society.</span></li><li class="c21 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>June 2023: </i></b></span><span>Selected to the </span><b>Steering Committee of the ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference</b><span class="c1">. This is a conference in the computer systems area, running since 1998. </span></li><li class="c21 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>October 2024, June 2022: </i></b></span><span class="c1"> IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) recognitions</span></li></ol>
<ul class="c8 lst-kix_1z0jf09j7rzr-1 start" start="1"><li class="c9 li-bullet-0"><b>2024:</b><span> Finalist for the</span><span><a class="c13" href="https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-prizes-and-scholarships/achievement-awards/achievement-medals"> </a></span><span class="c14 c0"><a class="c13" href="https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-prizes-and-scholarships/achievement-awards/achievement-medals">IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) Achievement Medal</a></span><span class="c1">. There were 8 finalists. The Achievement Medal is a mid-career award given across all engineering disciplines with finalists being selected from among 100+ nominations across the world. </span></li><li class="c9 li-bullet-0"><span class="c0"><b><i>2022: </i></b></span><span class="c1"> Elevated to <b>Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)</b>. The grade represents only 5% of the active members of IET, which numbers 147,000 engineering and technology professionals.</span></li></ul>
<ol class="c8 lst-kix_1z0jf09j7rzr-0" start="6"><li class="c10 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c0 c2"><b><i>August 2022: </i></b></span><span> Selected a </span><b>Purdue Societal Impact Fellow</b><span class="c1">, one of seven from across campus. This annual recognition is for faculty whose proposed activities in research, learning, or engagement most strongly demonstrate societal impact. </span></li><li class="c3 c7 li-bullet-0"><span> </span><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>October 2021: </i></b></span><span class="c2"> </span><span>Our vulnerability discovered in Android TV and our resultant fix are accepted by Google and lead to changes to the</span><b>Android TV OS</b><span class="c1"> and gets a CVE, CVE-2021-0889. This is now running in 100M+ Android TVs around the world. </span></li><li class="c3 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>December 2020: </i></b></span><span>Selected as </span><b>IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (DV)</b> for January 2021 through December 2023 (subsequently extended through December 2024). These are selected as “the most accomplished leaders in tech” who are sponsored by IEEE to be speakers at IEEE chapter events. </li><li class="c7 c21 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>July 2020: </i></b></span><span>Selected as member of the </span><b>International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)</b><span class="c1">, Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. The group consists of a select set of research leaders in the field of dependable computing. Membership is by invitation only, upon the nomination of a group member, discussion and a majority vote by the members. Its current membership is at 60 with 1-2 new members being added each year.</span></li><li class="c3 c7 li-bullet-0"><span class="c2 c0"><b><i>February 2019: </i></b></span><span> Purdue College of Engineering <b>Faculty Excellence Award for Graduate Student Mentorship</b>. One faculty member is awarded from among the 400+ in the College of Engineering each year. </span></li></ol>
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