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Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

VITA

  • Since 06/2021: Assistant Professor at WPI, U.S.
  • 2020 – 2021: Assistant Research Professor at WPI, U.S.
  • 2019 – 2020: Assistant Research Professor at University of Florida, U.S.
  • 2018 – 2019: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Florida, U.S.
  • 2017 – 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Berlin/T-Labs, Germany
  • 2017: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, TU Berlin/T-Labs, Germany
  • 2013: M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, TU Berlin, Germany
  • 2010: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran

Research Interests

  • Side-Channel Analysis
  • Optical Attacks
  • Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
  • FPGA Security
  • Machine Learning

Award/Honors

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2024.
  • Co-author of Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2023.
  • Best Hardware Demo Award, IEEE Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) 2020.
  • 1st place in Applied Research Competition of European Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), 2017.
  • Nominated for the best paper award at ACM CCS 2017
  • Nominated for the best paper award at CHES 2016
  • Nominated for the best paper award at CHES 2014