Hardware Security Primitives (PDF)

working as a Product and Test Engineering Intern at Renesas Electronics America and RF Engineer at Ericsson. His research area includes secure integrated circuits design and trust validation using SEM nano-imaging, computer vision, and machine learning. Besides, he has contributed his research expertise to develop an ecosystem for trusted microelectronics by performing vulnerability risk assessment and mitigation through blockchain. He has authored several papers, articles, and book chapters in his research areas. His research work was recognized as an invited paper in IEEE ITC 2019, nominated for the best paper award in IEEE HOST 2019, and audience choice best demo award in IEEE HOST 2022. In addition, he is a co-inventor of Trojan Scanner. He has been an IEEE member for 14 years. He also serves as a peer reviewer in HaSS, ACM JETCS, TCAS-1, and TSP journals.








Farimah Farahmandi is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, 2018. She received her B.S. and M.S. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Her research interests include design automation of System-on-Chips and energy-efficient systems, formal verification, hardware security validation, and post-silicon validation and debug. Her research has resulted in two books, seven book chapters, and several publications in premier ACM/IEEE journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on CAD, Design Automation Conference (DAC), and Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE). Her research has been recognized by several awards, including IEEE System Validation and Debug Technology Committee Student Research Award, Gartner Group Info-Tech Scholarship, a nomination for the Best Paper Award in ASPDAC 2017, and DAC Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship. She has actively collaborated with various research groups (IBM, Intel, and Cisco) that have led to several joint publications. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of IET Computers & Digital Techniques. She also has served on many technical program committees as well as organizing committees of premier ACM and IEEE conferences. Her research has been sponsored by SRC, AFRL, DARPA, and Cisco. She is a member of IEEE and ACM.