Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: 333H WEB
Jeyavijayan “JV” Rajendran
Staff
Muhammad Yasin
Postdoctoral researcher
Muhammad Yasin is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University in 2018; an MS in Microsystems Engineering from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE in 2013; and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan in 2007. His research interests include Hardware Security, Design for Trust, and Logic Locking.
Satwik Patnaik
Postdoctoral researcher
Satwik Patnaik is a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University (NYU) in September 2020; M.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering with a specialization in VLSI design from the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India, and a B.E. in electronics and telecommunications from the University of Pune, India.
His research interests fall under the broader realms of developing computer-aided design (CAD) frameworks integrated with industry-standard tools for designing efficient, secure, practical, and reliable systems to protect the intellectual property of integrated circuits using layout camouflaging, split manufacturing, and logic locking. Further, his research also delves into exploring the security properties of 3D architectures, leveraging the 3D paradigm for enhancing security, exploring the security properties of emerging and up-and-coming devices (e.g., spintronics, memristors, NCFETs, RFETs), and side-channel evaluation.
PhD Student
Nithyashankari G. Jayasankaran
Nithyashankari G. Jayasankaran has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2010 and a master’s degree in Microelectronics from Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, India in 2013. She has worked in the semiconductor industry on FPGA design/verification and prototyping of ASICs using FPGAs for clients such as Nokia Siemens Networks, ATOS (formerly Bull), and Qualcomm. She started her Ph.D. in computer engineering at Texas A&M University in 2016. Her research interest lies in securing analog circuits and finding the loopholes in the existing analog security schemes.
Zhaokun Han
Zhaokun Han received her Bachelor of Science degree in Microelectronics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China in 2018. She joined the hardware security lab SETH as a doctoral student in Fall 2018. Now, her interests in research include logic locking, hardware security, and logic synthesis.
Vasudev Gohil
Vasudev Gohil received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar in 2018. Shortly afterward, he joined Texas A&M University as a Ph.D. student. His research interests are at the intersection of Hardware Security, Game Theory, and Optimization.
Rahul Kande
Rahul Kande received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering with a minor in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India in 2017. He worked then at Samsung Research Institute-Delhi, India as an engineer in the RTL Design and Verification Team for one year. He joined the Hardware Security lab in the ECEN department of Texas A&M University in Fall 2018 as a Master’s student and converted to Ph.D. program in Summer 2019. His research interests include RTL Design and Verification in the field of Hardware Security and Computer Architecture.
Hao Guo
Hao Guo received her B. Eng in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China in 2017 and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2019. She worked then at Qualcomm (Shanghai) R&D department as a DFT engineer. She joined the Texas A&M Hardware Security Lab as a Ph.D. student in the spring of 2020. Her research focuses on the hardware security of FPGA and logic locking.
Chen Chen
Chen Chen received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA in 2018; M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA in 2020. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. His current research interests include software/hardware security, computer architecture and programming language.
Georges Alsankary
Georges Alsankary received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from The University of Notre Dame. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree and joined the Hardware Security Lab in Fall 2020.
Master Student
Arush Tomar
Arush Tomar received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from MSIT Delhi in 2019. He joined the Texas A&M University in Fall 2019 as an MS student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He joined the Hardware Security lab in Summer 2020 and his interests include RTL design and verification. His current research is focused on the security specification mining of RISCV processors.
Undergrad Student
Addison Crump
Addison Crump is an undergraduate student studying Computer Science and minoring in Cybersecurity at Texas A&M University (graduating Fall 2021). He has worked with multiple government contractors and state and federal agencies in defensive cyber, offensive cyber, and incident response roles, most notably in the Texas ransomware incident of August 2019. Addison leads the TAMUctf development team, works in the TAMUS Security Operations Center as an analyst, and does graph-based static analysis research in his own time. He joined the Hardware Security lab in Fall 2019 as a vulnerability researcher and currently works on formal methods and processor exploitation.
Mark Tressler
Mark Tressler is an undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University (graduating Spring 2022). He is currently working on split manufacturing of computer chips.
Paurushmani Singh
Paurushmani Singh is an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University (graduating Fall 2021). He joined the Hardware Security lab in Fall 2019 as an undergraduate researcher working on developing a verification methodology to find security bugs in SoCs. His interests include Robotics, Data Science, Hardware Security, and Embedded Systems.
Kevin Sipple
Kevin Sipple is an undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering and minoring in Mathematics at Texas A&M University (graduating Spring 2022). He joined the Hardware Security lab in Fall 2019 as an undergraduate researcher. He is working on split manufacturing of computer chips. His interests reside in: Hardware Security, Power Systems, and Sustainability.
Prisha Srivastava
Howdy! My name is Prisha Srivastava and I am a junior Computer Engineering (CS track) student with a minor in Cybersecurity. I joined SETH Lab in Fall 2019 as an Undergraduate Research Student in the SoC subteam. My interests lies in Computer Systems, Network Security and Software Development.
Albin Kyle Myscich
Albin “Kyle” Myscich is an undergraduate student pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering with two minors in Mathematics and Cybersecurity at Texas A&M University (graduating in the Spring of 2022). He has a history of working for Hewlett Packard Inc. among several startups specializing in software engineering and machine learning. He joined the Hardware Security lab in the Summer of 2020 as an undergraduate researcher. His research interests involve hardware security, data science, and network security.
Former Student
Arjun Muralidharan
Arjun Muralidharan received his B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from PES Institute of Technology, India. He then worked for an Agricultural IoT startup in Bangalore, India for a year as a Systems Engineer. He is currently pursuing his Master of Science Degree and joined the Hardware Security Lab in January 2019. His current research is focused on pre-silicon formal verification techniques to reduce error detection latencies. His interests are mainly centered around Computer Architecture and Design Verification.
Eswar Deep Pitchika
Eswar Deep Pitchika graduated from Manipal Institute of Technology in 2019 with a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering and a minor in VLSI systems. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Science in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He joined the Hardware security lab in Fall 2019, and his interests lie in Hardware Security, Design for Trust methodologies, and emerging Computer Architectures. He is currently working on Logic locking techniques specific to Sequential circuits.
Garrett Persyn
Garrett Persyn graduated from Texas A&M in 2020 with a Masters degree and in 2018 with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering. He joined the Texas A&M Hardware Security Lab in the Summer of 2018. His interests include Hardware Security, Verification, and Computer Architecture. His research focuses on the detection of hardware security bugs.
Now he works in Boeing.
