Awards & Honors

• IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award, for outstanding leadership in hardware security education, development of large-scale training programs, composing pioneering textbooks, and novel curriculum development, 2025
• Fellow, The Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL), 2025
• Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), 2025
• FSI Founder’s Award, for setting the vision and laying the groundwork for the Florida Semiconductor Institute, 2025
• Best Paper, A System-Aware Remote Fault-Injection Attack Detection & Mitigation for Secure Heterogeneous Systems, IEEE HOST, 2025
• Best Paper Candidate, NoXLock: SiP Activation and Licensing through Obfuscated On-Chip Network and Fuzzy Traffic, the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2025
• Best Paper Candidate, ChiPICA: Chiplet Physical Inspection Certification Authority for Trust Verification in Heterogeneous Integration, IEEE PAINE, 2024
• Best Poster Candidate, CAKE-SiP: Chiplet Authenticate & Key Exchange for Secure Provisioning in System-in-Package, IEEE PAINE, 2024
• Honorable Mention, RC-FSM-G: Automatic Security Rule Checking for Finite State Machine at the Netlist Abstraction, International Test Conference (ITC), 2024
• Best Paper Candidate, Continuity in Security: Leveraging LLM for Translating Security Properties Across Hardware Designs,” Int. Conference on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 2024
• Best Paper Candidate, ML-Based Optimal Virtual Placement Exploration for EM Side-Channel Mitigation, DesignCon, 2024
• Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Aristotle Award, 2023
• Best Paper Candidate, SoCFuzzer: SoC Vulnerability Detection using Cost Function enabled Fuzz Testing, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023
• Best Paper Candidate, EvoLUTe: Evaluation of Loo-Up-Table-Based Fine Grained IP Redaction, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023
• Best Paper Candidate, RTLock: IP Protection using Scan-Aware Logic Locking at RTL, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2023
• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), 2022
• IEEE Computer Society TTTC Bob Madge Innovation Award, 2022
• Best WiP Paper Award, K. Zamiri Azar, H. Kermani Mardani, F. Farahmandi, and M. Tehranipoor, “Warm up before Circuit De-obfuscation? An Exploration of the Possibilities” IEEE HOST, 2022
• ACM Fellow, 2021
• Teacher/Scholar of the year, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, 2020
• The paper titled “SHADE: Automated Refinement of PCB Component Estimates Using Detected Shadows,” received the best student paper award in IEEE Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), 2020.
• Ranked #3 among all PIs at the University of Florida in awarded funding for 2020
• Received Inventor of the Year Award from UF Innovate; Technology highlighted during the Standing InnOvation Event in September 2020
• Inducted into HOST Hall of Fame, 2018
• Best Paper Award, K. Xiao, D. Forte, Y. Jin, R. Karri, S. Bhunia, M. Tehranipoor, “Hardware Trojans: Lessons Learned after One Decade of Research,” ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2018
• IEEE Fellow, 2018
• Outstanding Paper Award, E. L. Principe, N. Asadizanjani, D. Forte, M. Tehranipoor, R. Chivas, M. DiBattista, S. Silverman, M. Marsh, J. Mastovich, J. Odum, “Steps Towards Automated Deprocessing of Integrated Circuits,” International Symposium on Test and Failure Analysis (ISTFA), 2017
• College of Engineering Excellence in Leadership Award, University of Florida, 2017
• ECE Research Excellence Award, ECE Department, University of Florida, 2017
• Best Paper Award, X. Wang, Y. Guo, T. Rahman, D. Zhang, and M. Tehranipoor, “DOST: Dynamically Obfuscated Wrapper for Split Test against IC Piracy,” IEEE Asian Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), 2017.
• The article titled “Hardware Trojans: Lessons Learned After One Decade of Research” published in IEEE Transactions On Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) was included the 21st Annual Best of Computing in 2016
• IEEE CS TTTC Most Successful Event Award for HOST Symposium, 2016
• Best Paper Award, Q. Shi, N. Asadi, D. Forte, and M. Tehranipoor, “A Layout-driven Framework to Assess Vulnerability of ICs to Microprobing Attacks,” IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2016.
• Best Paper Candidate, K. Yang, D. Forte, and M. Tehranipoor, “UCR: An Unclonable Chipless RFID Tag,” IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2016.
• Best Paper Award, “K. Xiao, D. Forte, and M. Tehranipoor, “Efficient and Secure Split Manufacturing via Obfuscated Built-In Self-Authentication,” IEEE Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2015”
• The paper titled “Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: Detection, Avoidance, and the Challenges Ahead” was recognized by JETTA as the most downloaded article in 2014
• Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity, University of Florida, July 2015-present
• Elected member of Connecticut Academy and Science and Engineering (CASE), Jan 2015-present
• Golden Core Member, IEEE, Jan 2013
• ISE North America, US and Canada, Best Project finalist for establishing CHASE and CSI centers, Nov. 2014
• ISE Northeast, Best Project finalist for establishing CHASE and CSI centers, Oct. 2014
• UConn ECE Research Excellence Award, Sep. 2014
• Charles Knapp Associate Professor, May 2013-August 2014
• Best Paper Award, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop (NATW), 2013
• F.L. Castleman Associate Professor in Engineering Innovation, April 2012
• IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award, June 2012
• SOE Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, 2012
• Best Special Session Award, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 2011
• IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker, 2010-2013
• ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2010-2013
• Recipient of IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2009
• Recipient of IEEE CS TTTC Most Successful Technical Event for HOST’08-09
• ECE Department Research Excellence Award, 2009
• Best Paper Award, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop (NATW), 2009
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009
• IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award, 2008
• Best Paper Award, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop (NATW), 2008
• Best Paper Candidate, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop (NATW), 2008
• Best Panel Award, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 2006
• Best Paper Award, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 2005
• Best Paper Candidate, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2006
• Top Ten Paper recognition, International Test Conference (ITC), 2005
• Received Texas Public Educational Grant, 2002-2004.

Students’ Awards from their Projects under my Supervision:

• My PhD student Nitin Pundir received the Best Dissertation Recognition Award, Title: Security Verification for SoC Designs, IEEE HOST 2022
• The Demo called eChain: A Blockchain Based Ecosystem for Trusted Electronic Devices won the Attendee’s Choice Award, IEEE HOST 2022
• Team Gator Hardware Oriented Security team (GHOST) won first prize in IEEE HOST 2022 Microelectronic Security Challenge (IP Security Track).
• Andrew Stern received the 3^rd place in the 2021 IEEE TTTC McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award
• Huanyu Wang received the 2nd place in the 2021 IEEE TTTC McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award
• Andrew Stern received the 3^rd place in the 2021 IEEE TTTC McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award
• The Hardware Demo presented in HOST-2020 called “FPGA-As-A-Service Security” Received the attendees best demo award.
• The Hardware Demo presented in HOST-2020 called “SPARTA: Laser Probing Approach for Trojan Detection” Received the judges best demo award.
• Adib Nahyan won the Best in Session Award at the 2018 SRC TECHCON, September 2018, Austin, TX
• Best Poster Award supported by DRAPER, Andrew Stern, Haoting Shen, Xiaolin Xu, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor, Near Field EM for Foundry of Origin Identification, 2017 FICS Annual Conference on Cybersecurity
• Best Poster Award, Gustavo K. Contreras, Adib Nahiyan, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor, Track and Extract: Information Flow Tracking for Security Vulnerability Analysis and Exploit Extraction, 2017 FICS Annual Conference on Cybersecurity
• Best Poster Award, Troy Bryant, Sreeja Chowdhury, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor, Nima Maghari, An All Digital PUF (Physically Unclonable Functions) for AMS Applications Using Stochastic Comparator Voltage Offset, 2017 FICS Annual Conference on Cybersecurity
• Adib Nahiyan and Gus Contreras receive Best Poster Award at the 2016 FICS Annual Conference on Cybersecurity, Title: DSeRC: Design Security Rule Check
• Mehdi Sadi received Best in Session Award from TECHCON, 2016 for his paper titled BIST-Assisted In-field Aging Reliability Management of SoCs Using On-Chip Clock Sweeping and Machine Learning
• G. Contreras received Best in Session Award from TECHCON, 2016 for his paper titled Fault Deterministic Vector Analysis and Seed Extraction for LBIST
• Tauhid Rahman received Best in Session Award from SRC TECHCON, 2016 for his paper titled SRAM Inspired Design and Optimization for Developing Robust Security Primitives
• Qihang Shi received the Best TA Award from the ECE Department, UConn
• Xuehui Zhang received the best student award from IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT), 2012
• Andrew Ferraiuolo, Adam Zimmer, and Rifat Chowdhury won the first prize from ECE on their Senior Design Project under my supervision, 2012
• Nicholas Tuzzio, Xuehui Zhang and Andrew Ferraiuolo: Received the first place prize at the 2011 CSAW – Embedded Systems Challenge (Physical Unclonable Functions)
• Xuehui Zhang, Nicholas Tuzzio, and Andrew Ferraiuolo: Received the third place prize at the 2011 CSAW – Embedded Systems Challenge (Malicious Processor Design)
• Junxia Ma: Selected as one of the four finalists for Connecticut Women of Innovation (WOI)
• Brian Helfer, Theodore Estwan, and Emilio Cepeda won the first prize from ECE on their Senior Design Project under my supervision, 2011
• Xuehui Zhang: Received First Place Prize at the 2010 CSAW – Embedded Systems Challenge
• Michel Wang: Received Best in Session Award at TECHCON 2010
• Nisar Ahmed, UConn SOE Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award, 2010
• Joseph Larosa, Corey Benoit, Andrew Tan, and Kevin Perkins won the first prize from ECE on their Senior Design Project under my supervision, 2010
• Junxia Ma: Received Best in Session Award at TECHCON 2009
• Jeremy Lee: Received the TTTC Best Thesis Research Poster Award, 2008
• Jeremy Lee: Received the Best Computer Engineering Seminar Presentation, 2008
• Paul Rago and Aaron Feldstein won the second prize from ECE on their Senior Design Project under my supervision, 2008
• Nisar Ahmed: received the TTTC 2007 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Kevin Tyler, Danny Ho, and Vimal Vachhani won the first prize from ECE on their Senior Design Project under my supervision, 2007
• Nisar Ahmed: received the UMBC-CSEE’s Best PhD Thesis Award, 2006