Services & Activities

A. Conference and Workshop Organization and Delivery

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC):
    • Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, California, February 23-27, 2026.
    • USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, August 12-14, 2026.Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 30 – July 2, 2025.
    • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025.
    • Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, California, February 23-28, 2025.
    • Workshop on Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security co-located with IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Newark, New Jersey, October 27-31, 2024.
    • USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 14-16, 2024.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), Washington, D.C., May 6-9, 2024.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), San Francisco, California, April 3-5, 2024.
    • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Francisco, California, October 29-November 2, 2023.
    • Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES’23) co-located with ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’23), Copenhagen, Denmark, November 26-30, 2023.
    • Safety and Security in Heterogeneous Open System-on-Chip Platforms (SSH-SoC) Pre-Conference Workshop for IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, California, July 9-13, 2023
    • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Knoxville, Tennessee, June 5-7, 2023.
    • IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, California, July 9-13, 2023.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), San Francisco, California, April 5-7, 2023.
    • IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Hyderabad, India, January 8-12, 2023.
    • IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, California, July 10-14, 2022.
    • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Durham, North Carolina, June 22-25, 2021.
  • Organizing Committee (OC):
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Dallas, Texas, November 11-12, 2025.
    • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Tampa, Florida, June 12-14, 2024.
    • IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS), Dallas, Texas, April 19-21, 2024.
    • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Knoxville, Tennessee, June 5-7, 2023.
  • Chair of Session:
    • IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, California, June 23-27, 2024.
    • FUSENANO24 Workshop at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 19-20, 2024.
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Washington, D.C., November 6-8, 2023.
    • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Knoxville, Tennessee, June 5-7, 2023.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), San Francisco, California, April 5-7, 2023.
    • IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, California, July 10-14, 2022.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Virtual, April 6-7, 2022.
    • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Durham, North Carolina, June 22-25, 2021.
    • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Beijing, China, September 8-11, 2020.
  • Organizer, Creator, and Chair of Session:
    • “Generative AI in Electronic Design Automation (EDA): Revolution or Risk?” Panel at IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, California, June 22-25, 2025.
    • “Circuits and Systems for AI and ML: Security Threats and Challenges” Special Session at IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Phoenix, Arizona, August 6-9, 2023.
    • “Machine Learning and Reconfigurability: Towards Sustainable Security” Special Session at ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Knoxville, Tennessee, June 5-7, 2023.
    • “ML-Assisted Hardware Trojan Detection” Education Class at IEEE/ACM Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), Shanghai, China, and Phoenix, Arizona (Virtual), October 7-14, 2022.

B. Technical Paper Reviewer/Referee

  • Journal:
    • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2024 and 2025.
    • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED), 2023 and 2024.
    • Journal of Surveillance, Security, and Safety (JSSS), 2024.
    • ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TCS), 2023.
    • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Integrated Systems (TVLSI), 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023.
    • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD), 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
    • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2015, 2018, 2022, and 2023.
    • ACM Transactions on Computing Systems (TOCS), 2023.
    • IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), 2023.
    • Neural Processing Letters, 2022.
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), 2016, 2020, and 2021.
    • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2021.
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), 2021.
    • IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO), 2020.
    • ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), 2020.
    • IEEE Access, 2018 and 2020.
    • IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS), 2020.
    • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), 2019.
    • International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (IJEEE), 2018.
  • Conference:
    • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025.
    • Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025, and 2026.
    • USENIX Security Symposium, 2024, and 2025.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2022, 2023, and 2024.
    • ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025.
    • IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021, 2022, and 2023.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2024.
    • IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2020, 2021, and 2023.
    • IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), 2022.
    • American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
    • IEEE Frontiers In Education (FIE), 2019.
    • IEEE Computer Society Annual International Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
    • IEEE SoutheastCon, 2018.

C. Presentation in Conferences/Seminars/Symposiums

  • Invited Panelist at ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) to Discuss the role of Generative AI in Microelectronics Education, New Orleans, LA, July 1, 2025.
  • Guest Speaker at AI/CAD for Hardware Security Workshop (AICAD4Sec) co-located with IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, California, June 22, 2025.
  • Poster presentation at the CCC Computing Futures Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 15-16, 2025.
  • Poster presentation at CRA/CCC CIFellows 2025 Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 13-14, 2025.
  • Invited Panelist at Edwards Vacuum’s Industry, Government, and Academia Connectivity Panel, Chandler, Arizona, August 6, 2024.
  • Invited Panelist at Applied Math Agora: Challenges and Opportunities at the Confluence of Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) and Applied Math (AM), Tucson, Arizona, April 12, 2024.
  • Poster presentation at FUSENANO24 NSF-Sponsored Workshop, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 19, 2023.
    Best Poster of the Workshop Award Winner
  • Guest Speaker at Management and Information Systems Department Graduate Seminar Series, Tucson, Arizona, February 9, 2024
  • Invited Talk at Temple University, Virtual, December 6, 2023.
  • Guest Speaker at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Graduate Seminar Series, Tucson, Arizona, November 2, 2023.
  • Invited Talk at Everspin Technologies, Chandler, Arizona, October 24, 2023.
  • Invited Talk at Intel Product Assurance and Security (IPAS), Virtual, October 24, 2023.
  • Guest Speaker at Systems and Industrial Engineering Department Graduate Seminar Series, Tucson, Arizona, September 21, 2023.
  • PowerPoint presentation at Federated Cloud Platform for Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (FCP-NCPS) NSF-Sponsored Workshop, “Machine Learning Assisted Prediction and Risk Assessment Framework for Hardware Weaknesses within Cyberinfrastructure,” Tucson, Arizona, USA, February 8, 2023.
  • Guest Speaker at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Graduate Seminar Series, Tucson, Arizona, October 27, 2022.
  • PowerPoint presentation at IEEE NEWCAS, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 19-22, 2022.
  • Poster presentation at 30th NITRD Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2022.
  • Poster presentation at CRA/CCC CIFellows Cohort Building Event, Washington, D.C., May 26, 2022.
  • PowerPoint presentation at the University of California Davis Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2021, Davis, California, Virtual, March 31, 2021.
    Best Presentation of the Symposium Award Winner
  • PowerPoint presentation at IEEE ICSC, Laguna Hills, California, Virtual, January 27-29, 2021.
  • Poster presentation at IEEE FIE, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 16-19, 2019.
  • PowerPoint presentation at IEEE MWSCAS, Dallas, Texas, August 4-7, 2019.
  • PowerPoint presentation at IEEE ISVLSI, Miami, Florida, July 15-17, 2019.
  • PowerPoint presentation at ASEE National, Tampa, FL, June 15-19, 2019.
  • Poster presentation at ACM DAC Ph.D. Forum, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 3-6, 2019.
  • Poster presentation at ACM GLSVLSI, Tysons Corner, Virginia, May 9-11, 2019.
    Best Poster of Conference Award Winner
  • Poster presentation at Digitally-Mediated Team Learning (DMTL) NSF-Sponsored Workshop, “LMS-Integrated Digitally-Mediated Team Learning Toolset,” Orlando, Florida, March 31-April 2, 2019.
    Best Student Poster of the Workshop Award Winner
  • PowerPoint presentation at IEEE ICCD, Orlando, Florida, October 7-10, 2018.
  • Participation in ASEE National, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 24-27, 2018.
  • PowerPoint presentation at ASEE National, Columbus, Ohio, June 25-28, 2017.
  • Poster presentation at IEEE ISCAS, Baltimore, Maryland, May 28-31, 2017.
  • PowerPoint presentation at ASEE Southeastern, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 13-15, 2016.
  • PowerPoint presentation at IEEE SoutheastCon, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 9-12, 2015.
  • Participation in IEEE ISSCI, Orlando, Florida, December 9-12, 2014.
  • Invited Seminar Talk on Distributed Computing, “Models of Computation and Computational Models Seminar,” ACM Student Chapter, University of Tehran, Iran, 2012.

D. Professional Services, Membership, and Activities

  • Member of Committee on Committees, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, 2022-2025.
  • Member of Graduate Recruiting and Awards Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, 2022-2023.
  • Member of Instructional Equipment & Software Planning Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, 2022-2023.
  • Member of Software Engineering Program Proposal Development Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, 2022-2023.
  • Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Member since 2023.
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Student Member (2015-2020), Member since 2020.
  • American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Member since 2018.
  • Invited to serve as the Graduate Student at Large to the Activity and Service Fee (A&SF) Budget Committee of the University of Central Florida, Fall 2016.
  • Founding President of Student Laureates of STEM Teaching and Learning (SLSTL) Registered Student Organization at the University of Central Florida, Summer 2016-Spring 2020.
  • Founding President of Computer Hardware Innovation and Design Association (CHIDA) Registered Student Organization at the University of Central Florida, Spring 2019-Spring 2020.
  • Invited to serve as the Student Representative to the Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Faculty Award Committee of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), Spring 2016.
  • Elected to be the Chairman of the Conference Registration and Travel (CRT) Committee at the Student Government Association Senate of the University of Central Florida, Spring 2016-Fall 2016.
  • Elected to be a Member of the Conference Registration and Travel (CRT) Committee at the Student Government Association Senate of the University of Central Florida, Fall 2015-Fall 2016.
  • Elected as a Senator at the Student Government Association (SGA) Senate of the University of Central Florida, Fall 2015-Fall 2016.
  • Conference Volunteer for IEEE International Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (ISSCI), Orlando, FL, Fall 2014.na, 2022-2023.
  • Member of Instructional Equipment & Software Planning Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, 2022-2023.
  • Member of Software Engineering Program Proposal Development Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, 2022-2023.
  • Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Member since 2023.
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Student Member (2015-2020), Member since 2020.
  • American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Member since 2018.
  • Invited to serve as the Graduate Student at Large to the Activity and Service Fee (A&SF) Budget Committee of the University of Central Florida, Fall 2016.
  • Founding President of Student Laureates of STEM Teaching and Learning (SLSTL) Registered Student Organization at the University of Central Florida, Summer 2016-Spring 2020.
  • Founding President of Computer Hardware Innovation and Design Association (CHIDA) Registered Student Organization at the University of Central Florida, Spring 2019-Spring 2020.
  • Invited to serve as the Student Representative to the Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Faculty Award Committee of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), Spring 2016.
  • Elected to be the Chairman of the Conference Registration and Travel (CRT) Committee at the Student Government Association Senate of the University of Central Florida, Spring 2016-Fall 2016.
  • Elected to be a Member of the Conference Registration and Travel (CRT) Committee at the Student Government Association Senate of the University of Central Florida, Fall 2015-Fall 2016.
  • Elected as a Senator at Student Government Association (SGA) Senate of the University of Central Florida, Fall 2015-Fall 2016.
  • Conference Volunteer for IEEE International Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (ISSCI), Orlando, FL, Fall 2014.

E. Outreach Activities

  • Founded the Artificial Intelligence Hardware Design Competition (AI-HDC), a competition to introduce PCB design and Robotics to learners at the high school level in partnership with the Summer Engineering Academy (SEA) at the University of Arizona as well as Chips and Wafers Summer Camp in partnership with the Chandler Unified School District, Summer 2025.
  • Founded the Artificial Intelligence Hardware Design League (AI-HDL), an international competition to introduce semiconductor chip design to learners at all levels of high school, community college, undergraduate, and graduate studies, Fall 2024-Spring 2025.
  • Mentored an undergraduate student researcher as part of the REAL Work: Research, Engineering Advocacy, and Leadership program to perform research in AI for Semiconductor Design, The University of Arizona, Fall 2024-Spring 2025.
  • Worked with the Southern Arizona Research, Science, and Engineering Foundation (SARSEF) and mentored a high school student from Basis High School to perform research in Hardware and IoT Security, The University of Arizona, Fall 2023.
  • Mentored two undergraduate student researchers as part of NSF Broadening Participation to perform research in AI for Hardware Security, Summer 2023.

F. Media Coverage

  • Exhibitor at TechConnect Conference for Presenting a Demo of the NSF-funded gAI-PCT Framework, Washington, D.C., June 2024.
  • Exhibitor at GOMACTech Conference to demonstrate the University of Arizona’s Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM) Initiatives and Capabilities, Charleston, SC, March 2024.
  • Exhibitor at GOMACTech Conference to demonstrate the collaborative hardware security project with the University of California Davis, San Diego, CA, March 2023.
  • Interview with KGUN9 Tucson News, “University of Arizona Holds Competition Integrating AI with Microchips,” March 2025, Link to Article.
  • Interview with KGUN9 Tucson News, “U of A engineering students could benefit from Intel’s expansion in Arizona,” March 2024, Link to Article.
  • News Article Mention by Wired Magazine, “Meet the UK Businesses Shaping the Future,” March 2025, Link to Article.
  • News Article by UArizona College of Engineering, “ECE team wins first place in the inaugural AI-Hardware Design League,” April 2025, Link to Article.
  • News Article by UArizona Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM), “High School Students Dive into Semiconductors at “Chips and Wafers” Summer Camp,” July 2024, Link to Article.
  • News Article by UArizona Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM), “CSM Kicks Off AI Hardware Design League for Students to Explore Semiconductor Manufacturing Career Opportunities,” December 2024, Link to Article.
  • Recorded Presentation at CIFellows Symposium, May 2025, Link to Video.
  • Recorded Presentation at CIFellows Symposium Co-located with Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, May 2022, Link to Video.
  • Blog Post by the Computing Community Consortium, “CIFellow Spotlight – SHIELD: Secure Hardware for IoT using Emerging-devices against side-channeL Deep-learning attacks,” February 2022, Link to Article.