Sazadur Rahman is an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his doctorate and master’s in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida in 2022. Rahman researches semiconductor supply chain security using state-of-the-art logic locking, reconfigurable computing, heterogeneous systems and machine learning. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed research papers, has three patents (one granted so far), a textbook titled CAD for Hardware Security, and authored several book chapters. His doctoral research is showcased in premier ACM/IEEE journals and conferences. Prior to joining UCF, he was a security architect at Intel Corporation, working on next-generation Xeon processors.