Draft:Farimah Farahmandi

Dr. Farimah Farahmandi is the Yangbin Wang Rising Star Endowed Professor, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and the Associate Director of Edaptive Computing Inc., Transition Center (ECI-TC), and Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida in 2018. Her research has been sponsored by NSF, SRC, DARPA, AFRL, DoD, Analog Devices, ANSYS, Synopsys, and Cisco.

Dr. Farimah Farahmandi oversees the Silicon Design and Assurance Lab (SiLDA) and serves as an Associate Editor of IET Computers & Digital Techniques. She has served on many technical program committees as well as organizing committees of premier ACM and IEEE conferences. She has served on many panels as a moderator or presenter both in the United States and worldwide. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Her areas of research expertise include hardware security verification, formal methods, fault-injection attack analysis, side-channel leakage assessment,  information leakage, secure physical design,  secure supply chain of microelectronics, and post-silicon validation and debugging. Her research has resulted in 7 books, 9 book chapters, 12 issued/pending patents, and numerous publications in the premier ACM/IEEE journals and conferences.