Sazadur RahmanView profile
Assistant Professor
Sazadur Rahman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), affiliated with both ECE and Computer Science departments under the Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the University of Florida and a B.Sc. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Previously, he worked as a Security Architecture Engineer at Intel Corporation, focusing on processor security hardening and threat modeling. His research interests include hardware security, semiconductor supply chain security, and AI-assisted chip design. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to patents and textbooks. Education Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, 2022 M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida B.Sc. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Research Interests His work centers on securing electronic design automation (EDA) tools, semiconductor supply chains, and hardware systems against reverse engineering, piracy, and attacks. Key areas include: Hardware obfuscation techniques (e.g., logic locking, watermarking) CAD tools for security assessment and mitigation Machine learning applications in secure chip design Secure heterogeneous integration and FHE acceleration Professional Activities Technical Program Committee Member: IEEE HOST Conference (2024) Reviewer: Top journals/conferences like IEEE Transactions on CAD, ACM TODAES, and DAC Awards 2022 IEEE/ACM DAC PhD Forum Finalist 2023 IEEE/ACM DATE Best Paper Nomination 2022 IEEE VTS TTTC Best Thesis Runner-Up Research Contributions His publications focus on innovative solutions like LLE for IC piracy mitigation, iPROBE for probing attack protection, and ReTrustFSM for RTL obfuscation. He has developed tools for threat modeling using NVD databases and evaluated cloud-based EDA platforms' security.
