Ozgur Sinanoglu (Senior Member, IEEE) Ozgur Sinanoglu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi where he is also the Associate Dean of Engineering currently. He earned his B.S. 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. He has industry experience at Texas Instruments, IBM and Qualcomm, and has been with NYU Abu Dhabi since 2010. During his PhD, he won the IBM PhD fellowship award twice. He is also the recipient of the best paper awards at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2011 and ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2013. Sinanoglu received the inaugural NYUAD Distinguished Research Award in 2021. Also in 2021, he was inducted into the Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Science in the UAE.
Prof. Sinanoglu’s research interests include design-for-test, design-for-security and design-for-trust for VLSI circuits, where he has around than 250 conference and journal papers, and 20 issued and pending US Patents. Sinanoglu has given more than a dozen tutorials on hardware security and trust in leading chip design automation conferences. He has served as track/topic chair or technical program committee member in about 15 conferences, and as (guest) associate editor for various journals including IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCAD, IEEE TETC, IEEE ESL, ACM JETC. He was also the general chair for ACM ASIACCS in 2017. He was the program chair for IEEE ICCD in 2017 and general chair for the same conference in 2019.
Prof. Sinanoglu is the director of the Center for Cybersecurity as well as the Design-for-Excellence Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi. His recent research in hardware security and trust is being funded by US National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Intel Corp, and Mubadala Technology.
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