Dr. Ambika Prasad Shah is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India. He received Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Before joining IIT Jammu, Dr. Shah worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Vienna, Austria.
He is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the M.P. Council of Science and Technology Bhopal, M.P. India. He received a Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF) from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India in 2025. He was nominated for the 10th BRICS Young Scientist Forum 2025 in Brazil by DST, Govt. of India. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award for two consecutive years at the VDAT-2024 and VDAT-2025, Second Best Award at the 7th International Conference on Microelectronics, Circuits and Systems (Micro-2020), and was nominated for the Best Paper from 31st IEEE Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC 2023).
He has authored/co-authored more than 125 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and authored two books. He was the Conference Organizing Chair for VDAT-2022, Fellowship Chair for VLSID-2022, Publicity Chair for iSES 2023, and Fellowship Chair for VDAT 2025. He is the Publicity Chair for iSES 2026. He coordinates the VLSI Society of India, Himalayan Region Chapter. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, editor of Nature Scientific Reports and IETE Journal of Research, and guest editor of Springer and Elsevier journals. He is a fellow of IETE and IEI, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, and ISTE.
His current research interest includes reliability analysis of digital circuits, circuits and systems for biomedical applications, in-memory computing, low-power high-performance circuit designs, and Hardware security primitives.