AMD has annouced that Debjit DasSarma (Ph.D. 1995 in CSE at SMU) has been named an AMD Fellow. This award acknowledged his service of over one and a half decades to the arithmetic unit design community. For the last seven years he has been at AMD where he is currently lead floating point architect on AMD's next generation of multicore microprocessors for the competitive PC and laptop market.

Debjit received his MS in CSE at SMU in 1990 and pursued his thesis work as an RA with Professor Matula's arithmetic research group funded by Cyrix and TI. His 1995 Thesis "Highly Accurate Initial Reciprocal Approximations for High Performance Division Algorithms" was praised academically and in industry. His first of some twenty patents was as a co-inventor with Dr. Matula of the "bipartite table" lookup method which was incorporated in the AMD Athlon family in the 90's and has remained a staple of their ALU design. Debjit continues to serve SMU as an industrial liason on Dr. Matula's SRC funded arithmetic research project. Professor Matula noted "Debjit's thesis and companion publications received more instant recognition and immediate applicaton in industry than any other thesis I am aware of in the last twenty years". For his accomplishments and service to SMU, Debjit received the Distinguished Alumni award at CSE's 40th anniversary celebration last Fall.

Following his Ph.D. Debjit worked on floating point ALU design at TI and Cyrix in the Dallas area and then at Hal and AMD in silicon valley.

Debjit has remained professionally active as the AMD representative on the influential IEEE Floating Point Standards Committee, and has served for many years on the Program Committee (and Program Chair for 2009) for the IEEE Biannual Symposium on Computer Arithmetic. As an acknowledged industry expert he was interviewed and quoted in the IEEE Spectrum's February 2008 article "Big Jump in Microprocessor Math".