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Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach and the director of CARS-Lab. I got my PhD in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. I have a dozen years of experience in hardware security, computer architecture, and machine learning and have published 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles at flagship venues such as DAC, ICCAD, DATE, and ASP-DAC.

I have served on the technical program committees and as session chair of major design automation conferences, including IPDPS, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, ICCD, GLSVLSI, AsianHOST, ISQED, and PAINE. Furthermore, NSF has funded two of my grant proposals totaling half a million dollars towards CISE-MSI and CRII programs. I am also the recipient of Academic Excellence Award from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Walter P. Murphy and Royal E. Cabell Fellowship awards from Northwestern University.

Research Opportunity

I am always looking for motivated students in CE/CS/EE majors to join CARS-Lab at California State University, Long Beach. The research focus will be on the broad area of hardware security. You may check our publications to become familiar with the projects.

If you are interested, please send your CV and unofficial transcripts to [Amin.Rezaei at csulb dot edu] using the title "Prospective-Student."

News

[Oct 2023] Our paper on cyclic logic locking and memristor-based camouflaging (published in DATE '18) has been selected for the Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security (TPHES '23) workshop.

[Aug 2023] I will serve as TPC member in DATE '24 and ISQED '24.

[Jul 2023] Our paper on ensuring guaranteed coverage in evolving hardware Trojan prediction has been accepted to appear in the proceedings of ICCAD '23.

[June 2023] I will serve as TPC member in ICCD '23 and PAINE '23.

[May 2023] I will serve as TPC member in AsianHOST '23 and ASP-DAC '24.

[Apr 2023] Our paper on CNN-based logic locking evaluation has been invited to appear in the proceedings of GLSVLSI '23.

[Mar 2023] My grant proposal on the intersection of logic locking, hardware Trojans, and fault tolerance has been funded by NSF CRII (Amount: $173K). (news link)

[Feb 2023] I will serve as TPC member in GLSVLSI '23 and ICCAD '23.

[Jan 2023] Two of our papers on dual key logic locking and attacks & remedies on chaos communication have been accepted to appear in the proceedings of ISQED '23.

[Nov 2022] Our team places first in CSAW '22 Logic Locking Conquest. Congratulations to Yeganeh and Michael!

[Nov 2022] Our team places second in the ACM Student Research Competition (undergraduate) at ICCAD '22 for research on sequential logic encryption. Congratulations to Jordan!

[Jul 2022] Our paper on evaluating the security of eFPGA-based redaction has been accepted to appear in the proceedings of ICCAD '22.

[Jun 2022] I will serve as TPC member in PAINE '22, ASP-DAC '23, and ISQED '23.

[May 2022] I have been awarded the CoE Proposal Writing Grant (CoE-PWG).

[Apr 2022] Two of our papers on distributed logic encryption and zero-day malware detection have been accepted to appear in the proceedings of GLSVLSI '22.