Georgios Makris

Professor Georgios Makris is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas. He leads the Trusted and RELiable Architectures (TRELA) Research Laboratory, the Safety, Security and Healthcare Thrust of the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE), and the UT Dallas site of the NSF CHEST I/UCRC. Previously, he was a faculty member at Yale University for over a decade.

• Education: Dipl. Eng. (1995) from University of Patras, M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2001) from UC San Diego.

Research Interests

His research spans hardware security, machine learning applications in IC design, analog/RF circuit testing, counterfeit IC detection, and statistical analysis. Current work includes statistical side-channel fingerprinting, hardware Trojans in wireless cryptographic ICs, on-die learning architectures, and security in synthetic biology.

Recent article trends focus on hardware security (8/15), machine learning applications (7/15), and analog/RF test/reliability (6/15), with subfields including side-channel analysis, statistical modeling, and emerging technologies.

Scientific Awards

• Elevated to IEEE Fellow (2025)
• Sheffield Distinguished Teaching Award (2006)
• Best Paper Awards: DATE’13, VTS’15, DCAS’22
• Best Hardware Demonstration Awards: HOST’16, HOST’18
• Erik Jonsson School Faculty Research Award (2020)

His research has been supported by NSF, ARO, AFRL, DARPA, and industry partners. He has advised Ph.D. students whose work received the David Daniel Thesis Award (2021).