August 2026

• Keynote Speaker:  :Prof. Shanmuga Sundar Dhanabalan, Associate Director (Research), Centre for Technology Infusion, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

• Title of the Talk:  Role of Wearable Technologies in Our Day-to-Day Lives

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Manish Sharma, Co-Founder ParaScalr and Adjunct Professor, BITS Pilani.

• Title of the Talks: AI for Next-Generation Semiconductors & Accelerator Hardware (Aug 11) & VLSI Design of ML Accelerator Architectures (Aug 12)

CREST hosted the  31st edition of the Monthly Colloquium Series (Aug'26)

🎙️ Keynote Speaker:  Prof. Bagawati Prasad, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

🧠 Talk Title:  Emerging Memory Technologies for Next-Generation Computing 

• CREST has extended support to a startup, from the Pilani, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship

• 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓, 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢 – 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 – 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬.

• We warmly welcome this new chapter of leadership and look forward to advancing CREST’s vision of excellence in semiconductor research, innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and industry engagement.

• 𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. Sanket Goel 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓.