- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS II), (2026-present)
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)- CPS Security, (2025-present)
- Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), (2015-present)
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), (2016-2025)
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS I), (2016-2023)
- Guest Editor for special issues on cryptographic engineering and hardware security in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
- Technical Program Committee member for various international conferences such as INFOCOM, CCS, VLSI-D, etc.
Research Experience
- NSERC Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University, New Jersey, working with Prof. Niraj K. Jha (2012)
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (2013-2017)
- Currently, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs at the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing, University of South Florida, and the PI for the Cryptographic Engineering and Hardware Security Lab
Education
- B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2005
- M.E.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, in 2007 and 2011, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Arash Reyhani-Masoleh
Background
Research interests include cryptographic engineering and hardware security. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing, University of South Florida.