Authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers
Contributed three book chapters published by Springer Link on PUF-based authentication and hardware Trojan detection
Received IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award (2012, 2017)
Recipient of the International Test Conference '10 Years of Continuous Service Award'
Best Paper Award from VTS
ACM Distinguished Service Award from SIGDA
Two Austin CAS Fellow Awards from IBM
Albuquerque lab-to-business accelerator award (2016)
2014 Innovation Award from the Science and Technology Center at the University of New Mexico
Multiple U.S. patents and provisional patent applications
Inducted into the HOST Hall-of-Fame
Served on program committees for major conferences including HOST, DATE, ITC, ICCAD, and VTS
Invited keynote speaker at iSES 2020
Research Experience
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico
Trust and Assurance Lead for ASU's ME COMMONS (SWAP) Hub since July 2024
President and CEO of IC-Safety, LLC
Consultant for Enthentica Inc.
Director of the Integrated Circuit Hardware Analysis Laboratory (IC-HAL)
General Chair of IEEE HOST Symposium (2010), Program Chair (2008, 2009), Vice-Program Chair (2020), and served in multiple organizational roles including Hardware Demo and Award Chair
Former Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers; currently Section Editor-in-Chief for Hardware Security in MDPI Journal of Cryptography