{"id":104,"date":"2023-11-06T00:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~kamali\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2025-09-27T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:44:42","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ece.ucf.edu\/~kamali\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Opportunity at <a href=\"https:\/\/haven.ece.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">HAVEN Research Group<\/mark><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,211,54) 0%,rgb(191,156,27) 19%,rgb(189,158,45) 48%,rgb(191,169,88) 82%,rgb(235,195,52) 100%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Openings<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Join our lab, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haven.ece.ucf.edu\/\">&#8220;Hardware Assurance and Verification Engineering (HAVEN) research lab<\/a><\/strong>, to explore cutting-edge research in <strong>VLSI design, hardware security, FPGA customization, EDA design-for-security, and applied machine learning for security<\/strong>. <br>We welcome motivated and creative students (UG, MS, PhD) eager to develop secure, efficient, and intelligent systems. <br>If interested in, please send me your CV (+transcripts) via email to <a href=\"mailto:kamali@ucf.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>kamali@ucf.edu<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">For more details, visit the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haven.ece.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HAVEN Research Group webpage<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest News and Updates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Aug 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-7\">\n<li>Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>SAGE-HLS: Syntax-Aware AST-Guided LLM for High-Level Synthesis Code Generation<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong><strong>43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2025)<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will be serving as <strong>Florida Cluster Initiative (FCI)<\/strong> faculty fellow, focusing on <strong>graduate student and postdoc engagement<\/strong> at FCI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-10\">\n<li>Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>CircuitGuard: Mitigating LLM Memorization in RTL Code Generation Against IP Leakage<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been invited for oral presentation at the <strong>43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2025)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as the <strong>Hardware Demo and Poster Chair<\/strong> at <strong>HOST 2026<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>HOST 2026<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-12 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-13\">\n<li>Our paper, \u201c<em>DecoRTL: A Run-time Decoding Framework for RTL Code Generation with LLMs<\/em>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong>International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD 2025)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be giving a talk (Webinar) on GenAI for hardware security at <strong>AICAD4Sec Workshop (co-located with DAC 2025)<\/strong>  son June 22, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>SeHAS Workshop 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will be serving as <strong>Registration Chair<\/strong> at <strong>IEEE PAINE 2025<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-14 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-16\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>RTL++: Graph-enhanced LLM for RTL Code Generation<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong>IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD 2025)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">The 2nd edition of the workshop, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Security, Resilience, and Robustness of Systems and Software<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted to be held (co-located with) the <strong>d IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2025)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>TimelyHLS: LLM-Based Timing-Aware and Architecture-Specific FPGA HLS Optimization<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been invited for oral presentation at the <strong>IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS 2025)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-17 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>April 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-19\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be giving a talk (Webinar) on GenAI for hardware security at <strong>Micro-Electronics Security Training (MEST) <strong>Center <\/strong><\/strong>on September 24, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>ICCD 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,211,50) 2%,rgb(185,152,29) 14%,rgb(182,151,41) 22%,rgb(187,165,85) 35%,rgb(233,193,50) 54%,rgb(235,235,235) 59%,rgb(200,200,200) 84%,rgb(250,250,250) 100%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-20 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-21\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-22\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>StepGrade: Grading Programming Assignments with Context-Aware LLMs<\/em><\/span>\u201d has been received the Best Paper Award at <strong>IEEE ISEC 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-23\" style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>FIE 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-24 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Feb 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-25 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-26\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>StepGrade: Grading Programming Assignments with Context-Aware LLMs<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong>IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (IEEE ISEC 2025)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">The 3rd edition of the workshop, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>AI\/CAD for Hardware Security<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted to be held (co-located with) the <strong>Design Automation Conference 2025 (DAC 62)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,211,50) 2%,rgb(185,152,29) 14%,rgb(182,151,41) 22%,rgb(187,165,85) 35%,rgb(233,193,50) 49%,rgb(235,235,235) 52%,rgb(200,200,200) 84%,rgb(250,250,250) 100%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-27 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Jan 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-28\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-29\" style=\"font-size:16px\">One of Dr. Kamali\u2019s collaborative works, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NoXLock: SiP Activation and Licensing through Obfuscated on-Chip Network and Fuzzy Traffic<\/em><\/span>\u201d has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at <strong>ASP-DAC 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-30\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>LLM-GIFT: Large Language Models with Graphs Embedding for Hardware Information Flow Tracking<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been invited for oral presentation at the <strong>43rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2025 (VTS 2025)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-31 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Nov 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-32 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-33\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as chair of a session at <strong>IEEE Int\u2019l Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as <strong>Florida Cluster Initiative (FCI)<\/strong> faculty fellow, focusing on <strong>graduate student and postdoc engagement<\/strong> at FCI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-34 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Sep 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-35 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-36 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>SimEval: Investigating the Similarity Obstacle in LLM-based Hardware Code Generation<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong>30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2025)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-37 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Aug 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-39\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as the <strong>Hardware Demo and Poster Chair<\/strong> at <strong>HOST 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>HOST 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will be giving a talk (Webinar) on GenAI for security at <strong>Temple University &#8211; College of Engineering<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-40 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>July 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-41 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-42\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>DATE 2025<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,211,54) 0%,rgb(191,156,27) 19%,rgb(189,158,45) 48%,rgb(191,169,88) 82%,rgb(235,195,52) 100%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-43 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>June 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-44 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-45 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Our book, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Hardware Security: A Look into the Future<\/em><\/span>\u201d has been published by the SpringLink Publication. You can find the online version here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons has-custom-font-size has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-46 is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-58687-3\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Online Version on the Springer Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-47 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>June 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-48 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-49\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">I will be serving as chair of a session at <strong>ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2024)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will be serving as chair of a session at <strong>IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2024)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-black-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(236,236,236) 0%,rgb(255,255,255) 19%,rgb(230,230,230) 37%,rgb(225,225,225) 57%,rgb(255,255,255) 85%,rgb(240,240,240) 100%)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:16px;flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Self-HWDebug: Automation of LLM Self-Instructing for Hardware Security Verification<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong>IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2024)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>ICCD 2024<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-50 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Apr 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-51 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-52\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Evolutionary Large Language Models for Hardware Security: A Comparative Survey<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong>ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2024)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>From Full-Custom to Gate-Array ASIC for Hardware IP Protection<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been invited to appear in the <strong>17th <strong>IEEE <\/strong>Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS 2024)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-53 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>March 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-54 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-55\">\n<li style=\"font-size:16px\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Advancing Trustworthiness in System-in-Package: A Novel Root-of-Trust Hardware Security Module for Heterogeneous Integration<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for publication in the <strong><strong>IEEE <\/strong>Access<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>GLSVLSI 2024<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I will be serving as <strong>TPC member<\/strong> at <strong>ISVLSI 2024<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-56 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Feb 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-57 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-58 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>GATE-SiP: Enabling Authenticated Encryption Testing in Systems-in-Package<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the <strong>61st ACM\/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2024)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-59 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Jan 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<ul style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\" class=\"wp-block-list has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-60\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-61\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Improving Bounded Model Checkers Scalability for Circuit De-obfuscation: An Exploration<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for publication in the <strong>IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics &amp; Security (IEEE TIFS)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62\">Our paper, \u201c<em>Exploring the Abyss? Unveiling Systems-on-Chip Hardware Vulnerabilities beneath Software<\/em>\u201d, has been accepted for publication in the <strong>IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics &amp; Security (IEEE TIFS)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>2023<\/strong><\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-63 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Dec 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-64 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>PQC-HI: PQC-enabled Chiplet Authentication and Key Exchange in Heterogeneous Integration<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for publication in the <strong>74th <strong>IEEE <\/strong>Electronic Components and Technology Conference (IEEE ECTC 2024)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-65 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Nov 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-66 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">I will be giving a talk on hardware security automation at <strong>University of Central Florida, College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS)<\/strong> Virtual Series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-67 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Sep 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-68 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Our paper, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>SiPGuard: Run-time System-in-Package Security Monitoring via Power Noise Variation<\/em><\/span>\u201d, has been accepted for publication in the <strong>IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAD)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,211,54) 0%,rgb(191,156,27) 19%,rgb(189,158,45) 48%,rgb(191,169,88) 82%,rgb(235,195,52) 100%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-69 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Sep 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-70 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-71 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Our book, \u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Understanding Logic Locking<\/span><\/em>\u201d has been published by the <strong><strong>SpringLink Publication<\/strong>.<\/strong> You can find the online version here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons has-custom-font-size has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-72 is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family has-text-align-center has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-37989-5\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Online Version on the Springer Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-white-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:38px;background:linear-gradient(180deg,rgb(255,255,255) 0%,rgb(235,235,235) 17%,rgb(255,255,255) 47%,rgb(241,241,241) 76%,rgb(247,247,247) 97%);font-size:12px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-73 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Aug 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:90%\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-roboto-slab-font-family wp-elements-74 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:300\">Our paper, \u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PALLET: Protecting Analog Devices using a Last-Level Edit Technique<\/span><\/em>\u201d, has been accepted for oral presentation at the&nbsp;<strong>2023 IEEE International Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (IEEE PAINE 2023)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Research Opportunity at HAVEN Research Group Openings Join our lab, &#8220;Hardware Assurance and Verification Engineering (HAVEN) research lab, to explore 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