HOST 2026 | IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust

Steering and Program Committee

Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
Saverio Fazzari - Saverio.Fazzari.ctr@darpa.mil
Sandip Ray - sandip@ece.ufl.edu
Program Co-Chairs
Prabhat Mishra - prabhat@ufl.edu
Jeyavijayan Rajendran - jv.rajendran@tamu.edu
Vice-program Co-Chairs
Aydin Aysu - aaysu@ncsu.edu
Ioannis Savidis - is338@drexel.edu
Travel Chair
Fareena Saqib, University of North Carolina at Charlotte - fsaqib@charlotte.edu
Publicity / Website Chair
Kyle Juretus, Villanova University - kjuretus@villanova.edu
Publications / AV Chair
Eslam Yahya Tawfik, The Ohio State University - tawfik.10@osu.edu
Panel Chair
Adam Kimura, Battelle - kimura@battelle.org
Tutorial Chair
Matthew Areno, Rickert Areno Engineering - matthew.areno@gmail.com
Exhibition Chair
Akshay Kulkarni, Prairie View A&M University - arkulkarni@pvamu.edu
Ph.D. Competition Co-Chairs
Xiaolong Guo, Kansas State University - guoxiaolong@k-state.edu
Yukui Luo, Binghamton University - yluo11@binghamton.edu
Hardware Demo / Posters Chair
Hadi Mardani Kamali, University of Central Florida - hadi.mardanikamali@ucf.edu
Hardware Hacking Competition Chair
Kanad Basu, UT Dallas - kanad.basu@utdallas.edu
Industrial Liaison Chair
Sohrab Aftabjahni, Intel - sohrab.aftabjahani@intel.com

Steering Committee
Mark Tehranipoor (Chair), University of Florida
Jim Plusquellic, University of New Mexico
Farinaz Koushanfar, University of California, San Diego
Swarup Bhunia, University of Florida
Ramesh Karri, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Yousef Iskander, Microsoft
Saverio Fazzari, Booz Allen Hamilton
Fareena Saqib, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Vincent Mooney, Georgia Institute of Technology
Farimah Farahmandi, University of Florida