Hadi Mardani 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
- Electronic Design Automation (design-for-security)
- Applied Machine Learning
- Computer Architecture
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, etc. He is the co-author of two books, three book chapters, and three 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, and DATE’23 (two papers).
His research as part of the teams has been sponsored by SRC, NSF, DARPA, AFRL, DoD (NG), and Microsemi.
He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Latest News & Updates
Openings
PhDs and Postdocs
There are multiple fully funded positions for Ph.D. students within our research group. If interested in, please send me your CV (+transcripts) via email to hadi.mardanikamali@ucf.edu.
Jan 2024
Our paper, “Improving Bounded Model Checkers Scalability for Circuit De-obfuscation: An Exploration”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS).
Jan 2024
Our paper, “Exploring the Abyss? Unveiling Systems-on-Chip Hardware Vulnerabilities beneath Software”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS).
Dec 2023
Our paper, “PQC-HI: PQC-enabled Chiplet Authentication and Key Exchange in Heterogeneous Integration”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE 74th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (IEEE ECTC 2024).
Sep 2023
Our paper, “SiPGuard: Run-time System-in-Package Security Monitoring via Power Noise Variation”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAD).
Sep 2023
Our book, “Understanding Logic Locking” has been published by the SpringLink Publication. You can find the online version here:
Aug 2023
Our paper, “PALLET: Protecting Analog Devices using a Last-Level Edit Technique”, has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (IEEE PAINE 2023).
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CV/Resume
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You can find the latest version of Hadi’s CV here!