Hadi Kamali

Brief Bio

Hadi Kamali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of ECE at George Mason University, 2021. His research delves into the following topics:

VLSI Design and Testing
Hardware Security and Trust
FPGA Design + Fabric Customization (Acceleration and Security)
Electronic Design Automation (Design-for-Security)
Applied Machine Learning (for Security)

He has numerous publications in top journals and conferences, including IEEE TC, TCAD, TVLSI, Design and Test, IACR CHES, RAID, DAC, DATE, ICCAD, VTS, ASP-DAC, ICCD, etc. He is the co-author of two books, two book chapters, and five patents, and his research received recognition via awards including nominations/recipients for Best Paper Award in ICCAD’19, ISVLSI’20, ICCAD’20, DCAS 2020, HOST’22, DATE’23 (two papers), ISEC’25, and ASP-DAC’25. Throughout his academic career, his research has consistently been sponsored by SRC, NSF, DARPA, DoD (NG), Lockheed Martin, AMD, and Microsemi. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Email: kamali@ucf.edu

Research Opportunity at HAVEN Research Lab

Step into HAVEN

Join our lab, “Hardware Assurance and Verification Engineering (HAVEN) research lab, to explore cutting-edge research in VLSI design, hardware security, FPGA customization, EDA design-for-security, and applied machine learning for security.
We welcome motivated and creative students (UG, MS, PhD) eager to develop secure, efficient, and intelligent systems.
If interested in, please send me your CV (+transcripts) via email to kamali@ucf.edu.

For more details, visit the HAVEN Research Group webpage.