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My name is Soheil Salehi and I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Arizona. Before joining the University of Arizona, I was an NSF-Sponsored Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Accelerated, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computing (ASEEC) Laboratory and the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust (CHEST) at the University of California, Davis (UCD) performing research under mentoring of Dr. Houman Homayoun with a research focus on Privacy, Security, and Trust in Computer Systems. My postdoctoral fellowship was supported by the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) under the NSF-Sponsored Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020. I was an Associate Member of the UCD Institute for Hardware and AI-enabled Cyber Security (IHACS). My technical research interests include Hardware and AI-enabled Security in IoT, Energy-Efficient and Intelligent Signal Conversion and Processing in IoT, Neuromorphic and Biologically-inspired AI Hardware, Emerging Spin-Based Devices, Reconfigurable and Adaptive Computer Architectures, and Low-Power and Reliability-Aware VLSI circuits. My educational interests span laboratory-based instruction, technology-enabled learning, and feedback-driven formative assessment. I completed my Computer Engineering Ph.D. in May 2020 at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where I received my M.S. degree in Computer Engineering in December 2016. I completed my doctoral research in the Computer Architecture Laboratory (CAL) under the supervision of Dr. Ronald F. DeMara at UCF. I was a Graduate Research Assistant supporting an NSF-Sponsored Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS) project and was a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCF from 2014 to 2018. I was the founding president of the Computer Hardware Innovation and Design Association (CHIDA), which provides programs that encourage academic excellence, innovation, and personal growth by providing students with the tools, resources, guidance, and inspiration to build their own future in the field of computer architecture. Additionally, I was the founding president of the Student Laureates of STEM Teaching and Learning (SLSTL), which plays an active role in the advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by providing financial and academic support to graduate and undergraduate students in STEM disciplines. I have been credentialed with the Preparing Tomorrow’s Faculty Workshop covering evidence-based and emerging teaching methods. I was the recipient of an IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) dissertation forum grant in 2019 and the sole recipient of the UCF Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the university-level in 2016. I was nominated for the 30-Under-30 award at the University of Central Florida in 2020 as well as the Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award at the University of California Davis in 2022.

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• 2022-2023: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Chair of Sessions at the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’23).
• 2022-2023: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member at the SSH-SoC: Safety and Security in Heterogeneous Open System-on-Chip Platforms Workshop co-located with the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’23).
• 2022-2023: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI’23).
• 2022-2023: Our paper titled “Low Energy and Area Efficient ANN-based Digit Recognition using Spin-based Progressive Modular Redundancy” was accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’23).
• 2022-2023: Our paper titled “Automated Supervised Topic Modeling Framework for Hardware Weaknesses” was accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’23).
• 2022-2023: $48,357 Grant from the University of Arizona Research, Innovation & Impact (RII) Award for 12/2022-12/2023. Role: Co-PI
• 2022-2023: Our paper titled “Hardware Trojan Detection using Machine Learning: A Tutorial” was accepted to the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).
• 2022-2023: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Organizing Committee Member at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI’23).
• 2022-2023: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’23).
• 2022-2023: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member at the IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID’23).
• 2022-2023: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member at the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’23).
• 2022-2023: ECE Department at the University of California Davis announces that Soheil Salehi will be joining the ECE Department at the University of Arizona in the Fall of 2022 as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor.
• 2021-2022: Soheil Salehi’s research on Hardware Security was highlighted at the 30th Anniversary of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Symposium.
• 2021-2022: Soheil Salehi’s research as a Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) was highlighted by the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).
• 2021-2022: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Chair of a Session at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’22).
• 2021-2022: Our paper titled “Survey of Machine Learning for Electronic Design Automation,” was accepted to the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI’22).
• 2021-2022: Our paper titled “Neuromorphic-Enabled Security for IoT,” was accepted to the IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS’22).
• 2021-2022: The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Computing Research Association (CRA) highlight Soheil Salehi’s work.
• 2021-2022: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Chair of a Session at the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’22).
• 2021-2022: Our paper titled “LOCK & ROLL: Deep-Learning Power Side-Channel Attack Mitigation using Emerging Reconfigurable Devices and Logic Locking,” was accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’22).
• 2021-2022: Our paper titled “FANDEMIC: Firmware Attack Construction and Deployment on Power Management Integrated Circuit and Impacts on IoT Applications,” was accepted to the Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS’22).
• 2021-2022: The ECE department of the University of California Davis recognizes Soheil Salehi’s NSF-sponsored Fellowship.
• 2021-2022: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’22).
• 2021-2022: $75K Grant from CHEST Industry Fund for “SHERLOCK: Power Side Channel Attack Resilient Hardware using Emerging Reconfigurable Devices and Logic locking.” Role: Co-PI
• 2020-2021: Paper titled “Embedded STT-MRAM Energy Analysis for Intermittent Applications Using Mean Standby Duration,” accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS’21).
• 2020-2021: Our paper titled “Adaptive Non-Uniform Compressive Sensing using SOT-MRAM Multibit Crossbar Arrays,” was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO).
• 2020-2021: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Chair of a Session at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI’21).
• 2020-2021: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI’21).
• 2020-2021: Our paper titled “Evaluation of Machine Learning-based Detection against Side-Channel Attacks on Autonomous Vehicle,” was accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS’21).
• 2020-2021: Our paper titled “Securing Hardware via Dynamic Obfuscation Utilizing Reconfigurable Interconnect and Logic Blocks,” was accepted to the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC’21).
• 2020-2021: Our paper titled “Ontology-Driven Framework for Trend Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Impacts in IoT Hardware,” was accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC’21).
• 2020-2021: Soheil Salehi receives the Best Presentation of the Symposium Award at the University of California Davis Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2021.
• 2020-2021: Soheil Salehi was invited to serve as Chair of a Poster Session at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI’20).
• 2020-2021: The University of California Davis Recognizing Soheil Salehi for receiving the NSF-Sponsored CIFellows $250K grant.
• 2020-2021: The University of Central Florida Recognizes Soheil Salehi for receiving the NSF-Sponsored CIFellows $250K grant.
• 2020-2021: $250K Grant from Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) under the NSF-Sponsored Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020. Role: PI