2025
Research Projects
CryptoPUF – crypto-enhanced PUF and PUF-enhanced crypto for the edge
Project ID:
P1_25
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Mircea R. Stan
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Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A
Trusted Heterogenously Integrated System in Package
Project ID:
P2_25
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Rashmi Jha
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Marty Emmert
Hardware Bill of Materials for Enhanced IoT Device Supply Chain Resilience
Project ID:
P3_25
Principal Investigator:
Dr. James H. Lambert
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Zachary A. Collier, Dr. Davis C. Loose, Mr. Thomas L. Polmateer
Advanced Counterfeit Detection System Using Multi-modal Second Order Effects
Project ID:
P4_25
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Sina Shahbazmohamadi
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Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Pouya Tavousi
IoT/Edge Hardware Monitoring and Attack Detection
Project ID:
P5_25
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Lei Wang
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A
Evaluating Resilience of Analog Neural Network ICs to Radiation-Based Model Perturbation Attacks
Project ID:
P6_25
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Yiorgos Makris
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Robert Baumann
Hardware Watermark for Edge IoT TinyML Model Protection
Project ID:
P7_25
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Setareh Rafatirad
Ultrashort Pulsed Laser-Engraved Terahertz-Readable Tags for Secure and Reliable Product Traceability in Microelectronics
Project ID:
P1_25B
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Sina Shahbazmohamadi
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Pouya Tavousi
TRACE – Trusted Reconstruction and Analysis of Circuit Elements
Project ID:
P2_25B
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Mircea R. Stan
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A
Situational Awareness for Fault Detection and Risk Mitigation
Project ID:
P3_25B
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Negin Alemazkoor
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. James H. Lambert
Register Transfer Level Analysis with Large Language Models
Project ID:
P4_25B
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Boyang Wang
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. John (Marty) Emmert
Synthesis of Secure and Efficient Polymorphic Logic Circuits
Project ID:
P5_25B
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ranga R. Vemuri
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A
GPUGuard: LLM-Powered Static Analysis for Securing GPU Programs
Project ID:
P6_25B
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Setareh Rafatirad
Code Unmasked: Advancing Vulnerability Detection in Decompiled x86 Binaries Using Instruction-Tuned Language Models
Project ID:
P7_25B
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Setareh Rafatirad
Covert Analog Devices and their Applications in Hardware Security and Trust
Project ID:
P8_25B
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Yiorgos Makris
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A