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Soheil Salehi is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment in Systems and Industrial Engineering. He is the Director of the Privacy-preserving, Intelligent, and Secure Computing (PRISM) Lab, established in August 2022. Prior to this, he was an NSF-Sponsored Computing Innovation Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Davis.
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2020
- M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2016
- B.S., Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, 2014
Dr. Salehi's research focuses on the intersection of hardware, AI, and security. His work spans hardware and AI-enabled security in IoT, Generative AI for hardware design and security, neuromorphic and biologically-inspired AI hardware, emerging spin-based devices, reconfigurable architectures, low-power VLSI circuits, and digital twins and mixed reality for semiconductor workforce development. He also explores the application of Generative AI in personalized education.
His recent publications, spanning 2023–2025, reveal a strong trend toward integrating AI and machine learning into hardware security and design. Key themes include automated secure IC design flows, AI-driven hardware obfuscation, firmware and side-channel attack analysis, security in neuromorphic and spiking neural networks, and educational frameworks using digital twins and generative models. His work appears in top venues like DAC, ICCAD, USENIX Security, IEEE TCAS-I, and ISCAS.
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023
- Best Presentation of the Symposium Award, UC Davis Postdoctoral Research Symposium, 2021
- UCF Excellence by a Graduate Teaching Assistant (University-Level), 2016
- Nominated for 30-under-30 Award, UCF, 2020
- Nominated for Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award, UC Davis, 2022
Dr. Salehi has secured significant research funding as PI and Co-PI, including a $300K NSF SaTC EAGER grant on Generative AI-based Personalized Cybersecurity Tutor, a $174,000 University of Arizona PIF Award, and multiple RII grants totaling over $198K. He has also received industry funding from CHEST. He actively mentors students and leads the PRISM Lab, which focuses on privacy-preserving and intelligent secure computing. His service includes roles as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member and Session Chair at premier conferences such as DAC, ICCAD, CCS, NDSS, and GLSVLSI.
The PRISM Lab, under his direction, conducts cutting-edge research in secure and intelligent hardware systems, with applications in IoT, edge computing, and workforce development. The lab emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in both research and education.
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