Vivian Desalphine is an Associate Director at the Secure Hardware and VLSI Design (SHVD) Group at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore, India. His research interests include Computer Architecture, VLSI design and implementation, embedded processor subsystem design, caches, secure microprocessor architectures, SoC design, memory controllers, wired and wireless network media access controller design, hardware acceleration of domain-specific applications, FPGA-based digital design.