Debendra Das Sharma

Dr. Debendra Das Sharma is an Intel Senior Fellow and Director of I/O Technology and Standards Group. He is an expert in I/O subsystem and interface architecture, delivering Intel-wide critical interconnect technologies in Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), coherency, multichip package interconnect, SoC, and rack scale architecture. He has been a lead contributor to multiple generations of PCI Express since its inception, a board member and leader of the PHY Logical group in PCI-SIG, and is the Chair of UCIe. Debendra joined Intel in 2001 from HP. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He holds 99 U.S. patents and currently lives in Saratoga, Calif. with his wife and two sons. He enjoys reading and participating in various outdoor and volunteer activities with his family.