Amin Rezaei

Amin Rezaei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). He directs the Computer Architecture, Reliability, and Security Laboratory (CARS-Lab) and serves as the undergraduate advisor for Computer Engineering. His expertise spans computer security, machine learning, and computer architecture, with a focus on hardware security and protecting hardware intellectual property.

Rezaei holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. He is a senior member of IEEE and a lifetime member of ACM and AAAI. His research has been funded by NSF grants totaling $500,000, and he has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in top venues like DAC, ICCAD, and DATE. He has also served on technical program committees for major conferences such as IPDPS and GLSVLSI.

His research interests include hardware security, machine learning applications in secure systems, and novel logic locking techniques. Key projects include developing CycPUF (a cyclic physical unclonable function) and frameworks for detecting hardware Trojans using multimodal deep learning. His lab emphasizes democratizing research by publicly sharing source code.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
  • Awarded Academic Excellence Award, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Awards:
  • Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University
  • Royal E. Cabell Fellowship, Northwestern University
• Grants: NSF CISE-MSI and CRII programs.

Rezaei’s advising focuses on undergraduate Computer Engineering students, with Spring 2025 hours on Zoom. His lab’s current research includes projects on hardware Trojan prediction, ML-based security evaluations, and dynamic logic locking.