Wayne Burleson

Wayne Burleson is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, affiliated with the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences. His research focuses on embedded security, hardware security, VLSI circuit design, and VLSI architectures for digital signal processing (DSP), cryptography, and graphics. He has pioneered work on physically unclonable functions (PUFs), remote power attacks on FPGAs, and thermal management strategies in chip multiprocessors.

He holds a B.S. and M.S. from MIT (1983) and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado (1989). His honors include the 2011 IEEE Fellow distinction and the 1999 Ben Dasher Award for Best Paper. He is actively involved in IEEE, ACM, ASEE, and Sigma Xi societies.

Burleson’s recent work addresses grand challenges in embedded security, including IoT device vulnerabilities, medical device cybersecurity, and mitigation of hardware Trojans. His lab explores novel approaches in reconfigurable hardware security, energy-efficient asynchronous interconnects, and adaptive systems-on-chip.