I joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute in January 2020. Before that, I was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, a graduate student at UCLA, and a researcher at IMEC in Belgium. My research interests are in hardware security related topics, a field that gained enormous traction over the past two decades. I work on challenges in cryptographic engineering, and on making systems secure and tamper resistant. My students have built numerous demonstrators, including the FAME and FAME -V2 microprocessors (180 nm), which has driven my research in attacks and countermeasures against faults and side-channel analysis. In addition to research in tamper-resistant design, I also work on the conception, design and implementation of efficient realizations of secure hardware and software.
 

I also love teaching, and I like to spend time thinking about how to explain complex topics clearly. My favorite topic is hardware/software codesign, which involves the mapping of computer engineering problems into hybrid hardware/software targets. I wrote a text book on the topic called "Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign". Computer engineering is a quickly evolving topic, and students face an ever increasing stack of technologies to conquer, from transistors to software. Hence, it is an exciting topic with numerous challenges and, at the same time, big rewards. I am excited about the project-based learning at WPI and I am honored to work with the undergraduate and graduate students on challenging research problems.