I joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute in January 2020. Before that, I was a faculty member at Virginia Tech 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 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. I wrote a text book on the topic called "Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign". Recently, I also teach courses on Digital Signal Processing and ASIC Design. Computer engineering is an exciting topic with numerous challenges and, at the same time, big rewards.Students face an ever increasing stack of technologies to conquer, from transistors to software. 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.
Scholarly Work
Professor Patrick Schaumont works on Hardware Security, Embedded Security, Embedded Systems and Hardware/Software Codesign