Steering Committee
Dr. Swarup Bhunia, Professor, ECE, University of Florida.
Swarup Bhunia received his B.E. (Hons.) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and the M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, IN, USA, in 2005. Currently, Dr. Bhunia is the Director of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World and Semmoto Endowed Professor of IoT in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Dr. Yier Jin, Associate Professor, ECE, University of Florida.
Yier Jin is the Endowed IoT Term Professor in the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World and also an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the University of Florida (UF). Before joining UF, Dr. Jin was an assistant professor at UCF. He also spent 5 years in New Haven, Connecticut and received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 2012. Dr. Jin’s research is mainly focused on developing methods for ensuring the security and trustworthiness of integrated circuits and systems and has contributed several key solutions in the area of trusted hardware.
Dr. Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Assistant Professor, ECE, Texas A&M University.
Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran received the Ph.D. degree from New York University, New York, NY, USA, in August 2015. He was an Assistant Professor with the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA, from 2015 to 2017. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. His current research interests include hardware security and computer security.
Dr. Ozgur Sinanoglu, Professor, ECE, New York University Abu Dhabi.
Ozgur Sinanoglu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California San Diego. He has industry experience at TI, IBM and Qualcomm, and has been with NYU Abu Dhabi since 2010. Prof. Sinanoglu’s research interests include design-for-test, design-for-security and design-for-trust for VLSI circuits, where he has more than 200 conference and journal papers, and 20 issued and pending US Patents. His recent research in hardware security and trust is being funded by US National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Intel Corp and Mubadala Technology.
Planning/Organizing Committee
Md Moshiur Rahman, PhD Candidate, ECE, University of Florida.
(Sequential Obfuscation Blue Team Lead)
Md Moshiur Rahman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida. Moshiur received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. His research interest is in the field of hardware security, currently focusing on IP protection through hardware obfuscation and obfuscation tool development.
Dr. Kaveh Shamsi, Assistant Professor, ECE, University of Texas at Dallas.
Kaveh Shamsi is an Assistant Professor at the ECE department of the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020. His research focuses on algorithms in hardware security. He is the recipient of the best paper award for HOST'17, and GLSVLSI'18, and a best paper candidate recipient in DATE'18.
Dr. Satwik Patnaik, Post-Doctoral Researcher, ECE, Texas A&M University.
Satwik Patnaik is working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical engineering from Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA, in September 2020.
Nimisha Limaye, PhD Candidate, ECE, New York University Abu Dhabi.
(Combinational Logic Locking Blue Team Lead)
Nimisha Limaye is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University, USA and is also a Global Ph.D. Fellow with New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE. She received B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Mumbai, India in 2015 and M.S. in Computer Engineering from New York University, USA in 2017. Her research interests include logic locking and scan locking.
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Md Moshiur Rahman, PhD Candidate, ECE, University of Florida.
Md Moshiur Rahman is a PhD candidate, under supervision of Dr. Swarup Bhunia, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida. Moshiur received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh in 2016. His research interest is in the field of hardware security, currently focusing on hardware obfuscation and obfuscation tool development.
Reiner Dizon, PhD Student, ECE, University of Florida.
Reiner Dizon is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Dr. Bhunia as his advisor at the University of Florida. He received his B.S.E. in Computer Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in Fall 2018. He joined the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World in Fall 2019. His research interests include Internet of Things, robotics, and hardware security.
