Paul Ampadu

Paul Ampadu is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and serves as the diversity lead at the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus. He leads the Embedded Integrated Systems-on-chip (EdISon) research group and is the associate director of the Advanced Research Institute (ARI). His work focuses on reliable, secure, and energy-efficient systems-on-chip (SoC), low-power VLSI design, and IoT security. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2004), an M.S. from the University of Washington (1999), and a B.S. from Tuskegee University (1996).

Research interests span secure embedded systems design, low-power circuit architectures, and hardware security countermeasures against side-channel attacks. He is affiliated with the Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications and the Power and Energy Center. Recent contributions include scalable DC-DC converters, fault-resistant NoC designs, and neural network-based security analysis tools.

Publications emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to hardware-software co-design for energy efficiency and security. His work addresses challenges in multicore systems, FPGA security, and IoT reliability through innovative circuit and system-level solutions.