 Kaushik Roy is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. He is also the director of the Center for Brain Inspired Computing, a $32 million project that brings together nine universities and 140 PhD students and which is funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Kaushik Roy is a world leader in low-power and energy-efficient circuit and system design. His current research focuses on cognitive algorithms, circuits and architecture for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing and neuromimetic devices. Kaushik has supervised 100 PhD dissertations and his students are now pursuing successful careers in academia and industry. We all know that AI and deep learning met a huge amount of progress in the recent past. However, the biological systems still possess a level of functionality that is quite unmatched in these artificial systems. Now, consider the reactive behavior of a fruit fly that has about 100,000 neurons or so. They fly fast while avoiding obstacles in a cluttered environment and they do all those with the few microwatts of power consumption, whereas if you look at the artificial systems of today, they require watts of power consumption and they certainly do not have the capabilities that the fly has. So in my research group, we are trying to address these problems to enable autonomous intelligence systems by improving the compute efficiency in the robustness of cognitive tasks through a cross-layer innovation which goes all the way from efficient learning algorithms to sensors and also hardware that can efficiently mend these algorithms. So we are looking at various application scenarios starting from vision problems that include understanding scenes, detection and recognition of objects, using foveation, saccades, autonomous flying with multimodal sensors. And we're also looking at and developing device technologies that can mimic the neurons and synapses with higher fidelity and more efficiency than standard CMOS technology. My relationship with Arhats University started probably about five years ago. You know, I started working with Professor Farshad Muradi, working on different proposals and papers and working in the area of neuromorphic computing, both on the algorithm and the hardware side of things. Professor Roy has left huge impact on society and the scientific community. He has received uncountable awards and honors. His many grants and 27 patents demonstrate his impact. His influence has enriched the academic community at Arhats University, sparking creativity and pushing boundaries. Today we honor Professor Koushak Roy for reshaping the future of computing, driving progress and inspiring generations to come. It was in 2009 that I was with Professor Koushak Roy's lap at Purdue University. In general, Koushak's dedication to pushing the technology boundaries left me a lasting impression and that was the basis of how to establish a successful lap. On the non-scientific part also we had a lot of fun there together with the team and Koushak. We were playing football two or three times a week and even we attended a university league and we went to final but I remember we lost 6-1 to another team. Today the prospect of collaboration is much more exciting than ever because Koushak Roy is working extensively on brain-spark computing and we are working on brain implants and bringing these two together can revolutionize the field of brain-computer interfaces.