Michael Zuzakمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Michael Zuzak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Kate Gleason College of Engineering. His research focuses on hardware security, digital VLSI, and electronic design automation with an emphasis on provably secure system design. Prior to his academic career, he worked at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as the lead digital designer for a fielded naval system. Dr. Zuzak's research interests span hardware security , digital VLSI/CAD , and computer architecture . His work centers on designing secure, trustworthy, and reliable electronic systems with a particular focus on addressing security challenges in outsourced IC fabrication. His research uniquely explores solutions with provable, system-level security guarantees through security-aware design automation algorithms and theoretical modeling of hardware security. His recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate continued focus on hardware security challenges, particularly in logic locking, neural network integrity, hardware trojan detection, and system-level obfuscation techniques. His work shows a strong trend toward integrating machine learning with hardware security and addressing emerging threats in secure IC design. ARCS Scholar Future Faculty Fellow Edison Memorial Graduate Fellow Best Paper nomination at the 2021 Design Automation Conference (DAC) Dr. Zuzak teaches courses including CMPE-110 Introduction to Computer Engineering, CMPE-160 Digital System Design I, CMPE-361 Introduction to Hardware Security, and CMPE-630 Digital Integrated Circuit Design. His research is supported by various sponsors focusing on hardware security challenges in the globalized IC supply chain. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2022.
