Keshab Parhi is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and holds the Erwin A. Kelen Chair in Electrical Engineering within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, an Engineering faculty institution. He has been with the department since 1988, starting as Assistant Professor until 1992, then Associate Professor until 1995, and Professor since 1995. Additional appointments include Edgar F. Johnson Professor of Electronic Communication from 1997 to 2022, Director of Graduate Studies for Electrical Engineering from 2008 to 2011, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor since 2000. Parhi received his B.Tech. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1982, M.S. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1984, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He founded Leanics Corp. serving as Chief Scientist from 2005 to 2012, and held short-term positions at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, NEC Corporation as NSF Japan Fellow, Broadcom Corp., and Medtronic Corp., as well as visiting professorships at Delft University, Lund University, Fudan University, and Stanford University.

Parhi's research specializations include VLSI architectures for signal processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, communications, biomedical systems, error control coders, cryptography, high-speed transceivers, stochastic and secure computing, and molecular/DNA computing, with current emphases on energy-efficient AI, homomorphic encryption, and quantum codes. He authored VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation (Wiley, 1999), co-edited Digital Signal Processing for Multimedia Systems (CRC Press, 1999), and published monographs like Pipelined Adaptive Digital Filters (Springer, 1994) and Digit-Serial Computation (Springer, 1995). With over 750 journal and conference papers and 36 US patents, his work on high-level transformations of iterative data-flow computations and multi-gigabit transceivers has significantly influenced the field. Awards include IEEE Fellow (1996), ACM Fellow (2020), AAAS Fellow (2017), AIMBE Fellow (2022), National Academy of Inventors Fellow (2020), IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg Award (2017), and John Choma Education Award (2021). He served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (2004-2005) and currently of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, and held numerous committee and program roles.

Professional Email: parhi@umn.edu