Associate Professor | ASCEND Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: 334J WEB
Research
Hardware security
Computer security
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, NYU, New York, USA, 2015
M.S. in Computer Engineering, NYU-Poly, New York, USA, 2010
B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, 2008
Awards
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2017
- ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, 2017
- The Alexander Hessel Award for the Best PhD Dissertation in Electrical Engineering, New York University, 2016
- Winner, Popular Research Award, ACM SIGDA PhD Forum at DAC, June, 2014
- Best Student Paper Award, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2013
- Best Student Paper Award (Second place), IEEE Defect and Fault-Tolerance (DFT) Symposium, 2013
- Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design, 2011
- Most Popular Research Award, ACM Design Automation PhD Forum at DAC, 2014
- Third place, ACM Student Research Competition – Grand Finals, 2013
- Third place, ACM Student Research Competition for Design Automation at ICCAD, 2013
- Third place, ACM Student Research Competition for Design Automation at DAC, 2012
- Third place, IT security for next generation in Kaspersky American Cup, 2011
- First place, CyberSecurity Awareness Week – Embedded Systems Challenge, 2009
- Service Recognition Award, Intel, 2012
- Myron M. Rosenthal Award for Best M.S. Academic Achievement in ECE Department, NYU-Poly, 2011
- Best Outgoing Student Award, 2008 (B.E.)
Mentee Honor: Mr. Alvin Wei, Semifinalist, Intel’s Nationwide Science Talent Search Competition, 2014
Services
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Co-founder: Hack@DAC and FOSTER (coming soon!)
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Track Chair: VLSI-SoC’17
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Web Chair: ASIA-CCS’17, CCS’17
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Technical and Program Committee: ASIACCS’17, ICCAD’17, ICCD’17, ICCE’17, HOST’17, GLSVLSI’17, ISVLSI’17, VLSI-SoC’17, ICCD’16, HOST’16, ISVLSI’16, VLSI-SoC’16, ACNS’16, CASES’16, and ISVLSI’14
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Organizer: ARO Workshop on Trustworthy Hardware, 2013, Embedded Systems Challenge – Cyber Security Awareness Week, 2010 — 2014
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Reviewer: Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, IEEE Design and Test Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Experience
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Co-founder: Hack@DAC and FOSTER (coming soon!)
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Track Chair: VLSI-SoC’17
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Web Chair: ASIA-CCS’17, CCS’17
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Technical and Program Committee: ASIACCS’17, ICCAD’17, ICCD’17, ICCE’17, HOST’17, GLSVLSI’17, ISVLSI’17, VLSI-SoC’17, ICCD’16, HOST’16, ISVLSI’16, VLSI-SoC’16, ACNS’16, CASES’16, and ISVLSI’14
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Organizer: ARO Workshop on Trustworthy Hardware, 2013, Embedded Systems Challenge – Cyber Security Awareness Week, 2010 — 2014
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Reviewer: Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – II, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, IEEE Design and Test Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing