[Jul 2026] I will serve as a TPC member for DATE '27 and HOST '27.

[May 2026] Our team placed first in the HOST '26 AI-based Hardware Attacks (AHA!) Challenge. Congratulations to Marissa, Paris, and Hasala!

[May 2026] Our paper on GA-based malware detection has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ISVLSI '26.

[Apr 2026] Two of our papers on hardware Trojan insertion in PUFs and dormant hardware Trojan detection have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of IOLTS '26.

[Apr 2026] Our paper on early detection of hardware Trojans using NCDEs won the Best Paper Award at DCAS '26. Congratulations to Hasala and Rahul!

[Mar 2026] Two of our papers on LLM fine-tuning for CWE detection and NCDE-based hardware Trojan detection have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of DCAS '26.

[Feb 2026] I will serve as a TPC member for ICCAD '26 and PAINE '26.

[Nov 2025] I will serve as a TPC member for DAC '26 and HOST '26.

[Sep 2025] Our paper on incorporating functional and behavioral features into GNN-based attacks on logic locking has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ASP-DAC '26.

[Sep 2025] Our paper on UAV-based secure communication has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of AsianHOST '25.

[Aug 2025] I will serve as the Co-Chair of the Hardware and System Security (HSS) track at ISQED '26.

[Jul 2025] I will serve as a TPC member for AsianHOST '25 and DATE '26.

[Apr 2025] I will serve as a TPC member for ICCD '25 and ASP-DAC '26.

[Feb 2025] I will serve as a TPC member for ICCAD '25 and PAINE '25.

[Jan 2025] Two of our papers on DNN accelerator security and ML-based URL inspection have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ISQED '25.

[Dec 2024] I became a lifetime member of ACM and AAAI.

[Nov 2024] Our paper on multi-key sequential logic locking has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of DATE '25.

[Oct 2024] I will serve as a TPC member for DAC '25 and ISQED '25.

[Sep 2024] Our paper on multi-key combinational logic locking has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ASP-DAC '25.

[Jul 2024] I was interviewed by the Los Angeles Daily News about the recent global cyber outage. (news link)

[Jun 2024] I will serve as a TPC member for ASP-DAC '25 and DATE '25.

[May 2024] I will serve as a TPC member for AsianHOST '24, PAINE '24, and ICCD '24.

[Apr 2024] Our paper on run-time hardware Trojan mitigation has been invited for publication in the proceedings of DCAS '24.

[Mar 2024] I will serve as a TPC member for GLSVLSI '24 and ICCAD '24.

[Jan 2024] I was elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member.

[Nov 2023] Two of our papers on multimodal hardware Trojan detection and cyclic physical unclonable functions have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of DATE '24.

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

[Aug 2023] Our paper on corruptibility-aware GNN-based attacks on logic locking has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ASP-DAC '24.

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

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

[Jun 2023] I will serve as a TPC member for ICCD '23 and PAINE '23.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Nov 2022] Our team placed 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 for publication in the proceedings of ICCAD '22.

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

[May 2022] I was 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 for publication in the proceedings of GLSVLSI '22.

[Mar 2022] I will serve as a TPC member for ICCAD '22, ICCD '22, and AsianHOST '22.

[Feb 2022] Our paper on IC-specific logic encryption has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of HOST '22.

[Jan 2022] I will serve as a TPC member for GLSVLSI '22 and ICPP '22.

[Nov 2021] Our team placed third in the CSAW '21 Logic Locking Conquest. (news link) Congratulations to Jordan and Raheel!

[Oct 2021] I will serve as a TPC member for IPDPS '22.

[Aug 2021] Our grant proposal on chaotic communications in wearable devices was funded by NSF CISE-MSI (Amount: $297K). (news link)

[Apr 2021] I will serve as a TPC member for ICCD '21 and AsianHOST '21.

[Nov 2020] Our paper on sequential logic encryption has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of DATE '21.

[Aug 2020] I joined Cal State Long Beach as an Assistant Professor.

[Nov 2019] Our team placed second in the CSAW '19 Logic Locking Conquest. (news link)

[Nov 2019] Our paper on rescuing logic encryption in the post-SAT era has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of DATE '20.

[Jun 2019] Our paper on resolving the trilemma in logic encryption has been invited for publication in the proceedings of ICCAD '19.

[Apr 2019] Our paper on memristor-based obfuscation has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ISVLSI '19.

[Nov 2018] Our paper on signature-based logic decryption has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of DATE '19.

[Sep 2018] Two of our papers on cyclic logic encryption/decryption have been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ASP-DAC '19.

[May 2018] Our chapter on dark silicon will be published in the next volume of ADCOM.