Scholar
Sai Manoj P D
Google Scholar ID: C3SVc70AAAAJ
George Mason University
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,119
H-index
29
i10-index
83
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL)
- Served on the TPC of HPCA 2022
- Published a Springer book on practical machine learning for computer scientists and engineers
- Published extensively in top-tier venues, including:
- - IEEE TPDS (PIM for energy-efficient MAC in deep CNNs)
- - IEEE TCAD (defense against side-channel attacks)
- - DAC, DATE, GLSVLSI, ISLPED, ISCAS, VLSID, ASP-DAC, ISQED, EuroMicro DSD, MetroCAD, IEEE SoCC, etc.
- - Research spans hardware security, federated learning, malware detection, in-memory computing, intermittent computing, and RFET-based ML acceleration
- - Multiple papers received best paper nominations (e.g., DATE 2023)
- Successfully mentored PhD students (e.g., Sanket, Rakib, Abhijitt), who joined companies like AMD and AMD-Xilinx
- Students awarded A. Richard Newton Young Fellow Award (DAC 2024) and multiple Young Research Fellow recognitions
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at George Mason University
- Leads the HArt (Hardware Assurance, Reliability and Trust) research group
- Collaborates with University of Virginia (UVA) on supply chain security projects
- Principal investigator on multiple funded projects from NSF and Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), including:
- - Novel architectures for ML acceleration under diverse workloads
- - Adversarial learning defenses against invasive reverse engineering
- - Energy-preserving next-generation cryptography protocols
- - Autonomous driving security
- - Node-level malware detection
