Dina G. Mahmoud

Dina G. Mahmoud is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She earned her Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Sciences from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (2019-2024), where she was a CYD Fellow and collaborated with Dr. Mirjana Stojilović and Dr. Vincent Lenders. Her academic activities include teaching Digital Design, Computer Organization, and Applied Data Structures at AUC.

• Ph.D. (2019-2024): School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL
• B.Sc. (2014-2019): Electronics and Communications Engineering with minor in Mathematics, AUC

Her research focuses on heterogeneous computing systems, emphasizing security and reliability at the hardware and electrical levels. She investigates fault injection attacks in FPGA systems, particularly in multitenant cloud environments, and has demonstrated the first FPGA-to-CPU fault-injection exploit.

Recent publications highlight trends in FPGA security, including power-wasting attacks, hardware Trojans, undervolting exploits, and fault tolerance mechanisms. Her work bridges hardware-software co-design, cloud security, and reconfigurable computing.

• CYD Fellow (first doctoral recipient)
• Google Generation Scholarship (2022, EMEA)
• IC Doctoral Fellowship at EPFL

She has served as Head/Teaching Assistant at EPFL for courses like Computer Architecture and Information, Calcul, Communication, and as Head Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at AUC for Digital Logic Design. She contributes to the technical program committee of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society’s ETFA conference.