Microsoft Bounty Award for the coordinated disclosure of CVE-2025-26644, February 24, 2025; World's Top Industry Scientist of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), November 10, 2023; IEEE Signal Processing Society 2023 Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award for outstanding editorial board service for the IEEE Transactions on Information, Forensics and Security, December 2023; Venus International Foundation 2022 Science and Technology Award (VISTA 2022) of Excellence in Hardware Security, July 2, 2022; Fellow of AAIA (Asia-pacific Artificial Intelligence Association), January 2022; Fellow of IEEE, Class of 2018 for contributions to hardware security; IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer 2018-2019.
Research Experience
Professor of Hardware Security, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sep 2022 - Now; Tenure Associate Professor, Division of Circuits and Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Oct 2005 - Aug 2022; Assistant Professor, Division of Circuits and Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Jul 1999 - Sep 2005; Project Consultant, Technical Application Division, Flextech Electronics Pte. Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of a public listed company Flextech Holdings in Singapore, 1998 - 1999; Lecturer, French-Singapore Institute (FSI), Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, 1995 - 1998; Research Assistant, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1990 - 1995; Supplier Quality Engineer, General Motor Singapore Ltd, 1989 - 1990.
Education
PhD, Spectral Techniques in Digital Logic Design, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1993-1997; MEng, A New Technique for Automatic Identification of Multiple Vehicles, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1990-1992; BEng, Honor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1985-1989; PDipTHE, Postgraduate Diploma for Teaching in Higher Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 2001.
Background
Research Interests: Hardware Security and Trust, Residue Number Systems, Low-power Arithmetic Circuits, Digital Filter Design, Fault-tolerant Computing, Inexact Computing, Application-specific Digital Signal Processors, Neural Network Algorithms and Architectures.