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Curriculum Vitae [pdf], August 2023

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

  • 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

Teaching Duties:

  • ECE 2049: Embedded Computing in Engineering Design
  • Previous Teaching Experiences:
    • @University of Florida: Physical Inspection and Attacks on Electronics (PHIKS)
    • @TU Berlin: Hardware Security (Lecture+Lab), Computer Security Seminar

Program Committee/Editorial Board Memberships

  • IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2020)
  • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (AIHWS 2020, AIHWS 2021)
  • Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2019)
  • Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC 2019, FDTC 2020, FDTC 2021)
  • Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES 2018, ASHES 2019, ASHES 2020)
  • ASM In­ter­na­tio­nal Sym­po­si­um for Tes­ting and Failu­re Ana­ly­sis (ISTFA 2019)
  • IEEE International Workshop on Physical Attacks and Inspection on Electronics (PAINE 2018, 2019, and 2020)

Reviewer for

  • Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2020)
  • International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2020)
  • Cryptographers’ Track RSA (CT-RSA 2020)
  • ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL)
  • Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (JCEN)
  • Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HASS)
  • Elsevier Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2014)
  • IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS 2018)
  • Design Automation Conference (DAC 2018)