Debendra Das Sharma

Dr. Debendra Das Sharma is an Intel Fellow and Director of I/O Technology and Standards Group. He is an expert in IO 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 of PCI-SIG, and leads the PHY Logical group in PCI-SIG. 

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. Debendra currently lives in Saratoga, Calif. with his wife and two sons. He enjoys reading and participating in various outdoor and volunteering activities with his family.