Ozgur Sinanoglu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. He earned his BS degrees, one in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and one in Computer Engineering, both from Bogazici University, Turkey in 1999. He obtained his MS and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California San Diego in 2001 and 2004, respectively. During his PhD, he won the IBM PhD fellowship award twice. He has industry experience at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Qualcomm, and has been with NYU Abu Dhabi as an assistant professor during 2010-2014, associate professor with tenure during 2014-2018, and full professor with tenure since 2018.

Professor Sinanoglu’s research interests include design-for-test, design-for-security, and design-for-trust for VLSI circuits, where he has more than 170 conference and journal papers, and 20 issued and pending US Patents. He is the recipient of the best paper awards at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2011 and ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2013. Sinanoglu has given around two dozen tutorials on hardware security and trust in leading CAD and test conferences, such as DAC, DATE, ITC, VTS, ETS, ICCD, ISQED, etc. He is serving or has served as general/program/track/topic chair or technical program committee member in about 20 conferences, and as (guest) associate editor for IEEE TIFS, IEEE TETC, IEEE TCAD, ACM JETC, Elsevier MEJ, JETTA, and IET CDT journals. He chaired and hosted the top cybersecurity conference in Asia, ACM ASIACCS 2017, in Abu Dhabi.

Professor Sinanoglu is the director of the Design-for-Excellence Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi. His recent research in hardware security and trust has been funded by US National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense (Army Research Office and DARPA), Intel Corporation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, and Mubadala Technology.

Dr. Mahmoud Rasras is an Associate Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He received a PhD degree in physics from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 2000. He conducted his PhD research at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center) focusing on the development of a spectroscopic photon-emission microscopy technique to study CMOS device reliability.

Dr. Rasras has more than 11 years of industrial research experience. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, NJ, USA. His research spanned a wide range of activities towards the development of novel photonic components for next-generation optical and microwave photonic networks. This includes silicon photonics, opto-electronics, optical transceivers, photonic sensors, and all-optical logic technology for high-speed data encryption. He also developed a novel linearized optical FM discriminator for microwave photonics applications.

Prior to joining NYUAD, Dr. Rasras was a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering and Computer science at Masdar Institute (MI), Abu Dhabi. His group worked on a variety of research problems to address the current limitation of communication bandwidth. This includes designing high-speed transceiver circuits for 400Gb/s links and beyond. Additionally, much of his group research efforts focused on developing process technology for low-temperature germanium photodetectors integration on CMOS compatible platform (above 64 Gb/s). He also developed multi-axis opto-MEMS accelerometers in collaboration with GlobalFoundries (GF) and A*Star’s Institute of Microelectronics-Singapore.

Dr. Rasras authored and co-authored several journals and conference papers and holds 33 US issued patents. He has also advised several PhD and MSc students. He is a former Director of the SRC/GF Center-for-Excellence on Integrated Photonics at MI. He served on several TPC committees, including the Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science (FIO/LS) Conference. Dr. Rasras is currently an Associate Editor of Optics Express journal and a Senior IEEE Member.

Borja García de Soto is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and holds an appointment as Global Network Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU). He is the director of the S.M.A.R.T. Construction Research Group at NYUAD and conducts research in the areas of automation and robotics in construction, cybersecurity in the AEC industry, artificial intelligence, lean construction, and BIM.

Borja has extensive experience in the industry as a structural engineer, project manager, and construction consultant. He is a Professional Engineer (PE) with licenses in California and Florida and has international experience in multiple aspects of construction projects.

Borja received his PhD from ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He also holds an MSc in Civil Engineering with a concentration in engineering and project management from the University of California at Berkeley, an MSc in Civil Engineering with a concentration in structural design from Florida International University (FIU), and a BSc in Civil Engineering (graduated cum laude) also from FIU.

Christina Pöpper is an assistant professor of computer science at NYU Abu Dhabi, focusing on information and communication security of current and future IT/communication systems. Specific research interests are in the security of wireless systems and applications and – increasingly – on aspects of privacy.

Prior to joining NYUAD, Christina Pöpper was an assistant professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, heading the Information Security Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. She received her doctoral and graduate degrees in computer science from ETH Zurich.

Ramesh Karri is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. His research interests include trustworthy hardware (integrated circuits to processor architectures); High assurance nanoscale integrated circuits, architectures, and systems; VLSI Design and Test; Interaction between security and reliability.

He has over 150 journal and conference publications. He has written two invited articles in IEEE Computer on Trustworthy Hardware, an invited article on Digital Logic Design using Memristors in Proceedings of IEEE and an Invited article in IEEE Computer on Reliable Nanoscale Systems.

Rafael Song’s research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary in both mechanical engineering disciplines such as design and manufacturing of MEMS devices, fluid mechanics, and micro/nanofabrication, as well as in biological engineering areas such as BioMEMS devices for separation and detection of biomolecules, neuroprosthetic implants, and transport phenomena in biological systems.

He received his BS, MS, and PhD from RWTH Aachen University, Germany and worked at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) as a Senior Research Scientist. He joined Fraunhofer USA as a Senior Engineer in 2001 and worked in the Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT as a Research Scientist. Song held an appointment as a Research Fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston until he joined NYUAD in September 2012.

He currently holds an affiliate appointment at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NYU-Poly. Song was awarded the Postdoctoral Fellowship from Merck/Computational Systems Biology Initiative of MIT for 2004-2006 and an Outstanding Research Team Award from President of KIST in 2000. He is a recipient of the German Konrad-Adenauer Foundation Scholarship.