معرفی
Fareena Saqib is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), serving as Director of the Hardware and Embedded Design and Security (HEADS) Lab. Her research focuses on hardware security, IoT security, and embedded systems security, with particular expertise in physical unclonable functions (PUF), FPGA-based security, and supply chain risk management. She leads efforts in developing secure boot frameworks, countermeasures against side-channel attacks, and authentication protocols for resource-constrained devices.
Her work spans multiple domains including automotive networks (CAN-FD security), FPGA security through logic locking and dynamic reconfiguration, and embedded systems protection against DMA and other hardware-level attacks. Dr. Saqib has published extensively on topics like counterfeit IC detection using machine learning, secure communication frameworks for electronic control units, and hardware-assisted information flow tracking in RISC-V architectures. Her research has been supported by grants such as NSF Student Travel Grants for IEEE HOST conferences.
Key contributions include novel authentication protocols based on PUF technology, delay-based machine learning models for attack mitigation, and secure design flows for reconfigurable systems. She actively promotes cybersecurity education through initiatives like the HACE Lab, an online platform for hardware security evaluation.
