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Academic Achievements
- Published papers in top venues including IEEE TCAD, TCHES, Asia CCS, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE TCAS-II, and DATE
- 2025: Paper on secure layout synthesis published in IEEE TCAD
- 2024: Survey on FPGA-inspired obfuscation published in ACM Computing Surveys
- 2024: Awarded NSF grant for the US-EE-UA project on secure cryptographic hardware accelerators
- Led or participated in major international projects including DARPA CRAFT and OMG, IARPA RAVEN, EU H2020 SAFEST, and NSF Neuromorphic Hardware
- Supervised multiple PhD students to successful thesis defenses (e.g., Zain Ul Abideen, Felipe Almeida, Mohammad Eslami, Malik Imran)
- Published a book on FPGA-like obfuscation in 2023