Srinivas Devadas Receives ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
June 24, 2026
ACM and IEEE CS have announced that Srinivas Devadas is the recipient of the 2026 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. Devadas, the Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is cited for pioneering contributions to secure architectures with broad industrial and academic impact.
Devadas pioneered the field of hardware security at a time when it was considered by many to be a niche or even fanciful pursuit. However, in the last 25 years, hardware security has become a fundamental design principle in computer architecture with most design groups now maintaining dedicated teams focused on security. Devadas coupled foundational research with a range of practical and widely adopted defenses that have shaped both academia and industry.
He will be formally recognized with the Eckert-Mauchly Award at ISCA 2026, being held from June 27 - July 1, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Eckert-Mauchly Award is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. It is co-sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society and comes with a $5,000 prize.
