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 his Ph.D. in Electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, 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.
He is currently exploring the application of reinforcement learning techniques to develop scalable and efficient attacks and defenses for different domain problems in hardware security. Further, his research delves into developing efficient, secure, and practical computer-aided design (CAD) frameworks integrated with industry-standard tools for designing secure chips. He has extensive experience in protection techniques to secure the IC supply chain, such as logic locking, layout camouflaging, and split manufacturing. Furthermore, his research delves into exploring the usage of graph neural networks for developing efficient attacks, leveraging the 3D paradigm for enhancing hardware security, exploring the security properties of emerging and up-and-coming devices (e.g., spintronics, NCFETs, RFETs), and side-channel evaluation. Personal webpage