I am an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach, and Director of CARS-Lab. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. With over a decade of experience in the broad areas of security, hardware, and intelligence, I have published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in flagship venues such as DAC, ICCAD, DATE, and ASP-DAC.

I am a senior member of IEEE and a lifetime member of ACM and AAAI. I have served on the technical program committees and as session chair of major design automation conferences, including IPDPS, DAC, ICCAD, DATE, 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.