HOST 2020 | IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust

Steering and Program Committee

Organizing Committee
  • General Chair: Domenic Forte, University of Florida (Email: dforte at ece.ufl.edu)
  • Program Chair: Yousef Iskander, Cisco Systems (Email: yiskande at cisco.com)
  • Vice-program Chairs: Saverio Fazzari, Booz Allen Hamilton and Jim Plusquellic, UNM (Email: jimp at ece.unm.edu)
  • Finance Chair: Vincent Mooney, Georgia Tech (Email: mooney at ece.gatech.edu)
  • Publicity Chair: Farimah Farahmandi, University of Florida (Email: ffarahmandi at ufl.edu)
  • Registration Chair/Vice Finance: Ioannis Savidis, Drexel University (Email: isavidis at coe.drexel.edu)
  • Panel Chairs: Rosario Cammarota, Intel (Email: rosario.cammarota at intel.com) and Waleed Khalil, OSU
  • Tutorial Chair: Sheng Wei, Rutgers University (Email: sheng.wei at rutgers.edu)
  • Hardware Demo Chairs: Fareena Saqib, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Email: fsaqib@uncc.edu) and Adam Kimura, Battelle
  • Exhibition Chair: Mark Tehranipoor, University of Florida (Email: tehranipoor at ece.ufl.edu) and Greg Creech, GLC Consulting, LLC
  • Poster Chair: Kyle Juretus, Villanova University (Email: kyle.juretus at villanova.edu)
  • Publications/AV Chair: Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, University of South Florida (Email: mehran2 at usf.edu)
  • AV Co-Chair: Robert Karam, University of South Florida (Email: rkaram at usf.edu)
  • Industrial Liaison Chair: Vivek De, Intel (Email: vivek.de at intel.com)
  • European Liaison: Amir Moradi, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Email: Amir.Moradi at rub.de)
  • Asia-Pacific Liaison: Xiaowei Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Email: lxw at ict.ac.cn)
  • Web Chair: Wei Hu, Northwestern Polytechnical University (Email: weihu at nwpu.edu.cn)

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
  • Ryan Kastner, University of California, San Diego
  • Gang Qu, University of Maryland
  • Domenic Forte, University of Florida
  • Yousef Iskander, Cisco Systems

Technical Program Committee
  • Adam Duncan, Naval Surface Warfare Center
  • Avesta Sasan, George Mason University
  • Aydin Aysu, NCSU
  • Calvin Chan, University of New Mexico
  • Chengmo Yang, University of Delaware
  • Dmitry Ponomarev, Binghampton University
  • Farhad Merchant, RWTH Aachen University
  • Francesco Regazzoni, ALaRI Institute of Università della Svizzera italiana
  • Francois-Xavier Standaert, UC Louvain
  • Gang Qu, University of Maryland
  • Guru Venkataramani, George Washington University
  • Hai Zhou, Northwestern
  • Ingrid Verbauwhede, KU Leuven
  • Itamar Levi, UC Louvain
  • Jakub Szefer, Yale University
  • Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Texas A&M University
  • Jiafeng Xie, Villanova University
  • Kevin B. Bush, MIT Lincoln Lab
  • Lee Lerner, GTRI
  • Mahida Gul, Howard University
  • Matt French, USC ISI
  • Matthew Areno, Intel
  • Matthew Hicks, Virginia Tech
  • Meng Li, University of Texas
  • Michael Orshansky, University of Texas
  • Naghmeh Karimi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • Prabhat Mishra, University of Florida
  • Rajat Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  • Rashmi Jha, University of Cincinnati
  • Ro Cammarota, Intel
  • Ryan Helinski, Sandia National Lab
  • Ryan Kastner, University of California, San Diego
  • Svetla Nikova, KU Leuven
  • Shahin Tajik, University of Florida
  • Swarup Bhunia, University of Florida
  • Taimour Wehbe, Renesas
  • Todd Austin, University of Michigan
  • Ujjwal Guin, Auburn University
  • Vincent Immler
  • Vivek Venugopal, USC ISI
  • William Diehl, Virginia Tech
  • Xinfei Guo, University of Virginia
  • Yousef Iskander, Cisco Systems

Hardware Tutorial Committee
  • Sheng Wei, Rutgers University (Chair)
  • Yousef Iskander, Cisco
  • Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, University of California, Riverside
  • Xiaolin Xu, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Adib Nahiyan, Intel
  • Laurent L. Njilla, AFRL

Student Travel Grant Committee
  • Yier Jin, University of Florida (Chair)
  • Gang Qu, University of Maryland
  • Ryan Kastner, University of California, San Diego
  • Domenic Forte, University of Florida
  • Xiaolong Guo, Kansas State University

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