Shahin Tajik
Email
stajik@wpi.edu
Office
215 Atwater Kent Laboratories
Phone
+1 (508) 8315239
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Affiliated Department or Office
Cybersecurity
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Education
PhD Electrical Engineering Technical University of Berlin 2017
MS Electrical Engineering Technical University of Berlin 2013
BS Electrical Engineering K. N. Toosi University of Technology 2010

I joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute in July 2020 as an assistant research professor. Before joining WPI, I was an assistant research professor at Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research at University of Florida. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017 from the working group SECT, a collaboration of the Technical University of Berlin and Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Germany. My field of research mainly includes non-invasive and semi-invasive side-channel analysis, Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), machine learning, FPGA security, and designing anti-tamper mechanisms against physical attacks. My ACM CCS’17 paper with the title "On the Power of Optical Contactless Probing: Attacking Bitstream Encryption of FPGAs" was awarded the 1st place in Applied Research Competition of European Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) in 2017. I have served as a reviewer for IEEE and ACM journals as well as a technical program committee member of many hardware security conferences, including Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), and Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC).

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ISS Source
Tool to protect hardware from attack

ISS Source wrote about Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shahin Tajik, who just received a CAREER Award of $594,081 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to look at ways to protect computer hardware from attacks.

TechCodex
WPI Researcher Receives $594,081 to Develop Tools to Protect Hardware From Hackers

TechCodex wrote about the National Science Foundation grant that Shahin Tajik, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received to expand his research into hardware security, a field that focuses on physical threats to computing systems that attackers can hijack by tampering with chips, motherboards, and other electronic components traveling through global supply chains.