particular focus on low-power VLSI Design. He is a student member of IEEE and ACM.

[Mohammed Ashraf]{} is a Senior Physical Design engineer from India. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, in 2005. He carries an experience of 10 years in the VLSI industry. He has worked with various multi-national companies like NVIDIA Graphics, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Wipro Technologies. He worked also with Dubai Circuit Design, Dubai Silicon Oasis, UAE. Mr. Ashraf is currently a Research Engineer at Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). His work focus on the Physical Design/Implementation of the ARM Cortex M0 processor and its four secure variants.

[Ozgur Sinanoglu]{} is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering atNew York University Abu Dhabi. He earned his B.S. degrees, one in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and one in Computer Engineering, both from Bogazici University, Turkey in 1999. He obtained his MS and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California San Diego in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He has industry experience at TI, IBM and Qualcomm, and has been with NYU Abu Dhabi since 2010. During his PhD, he won the IBM PhD fellowship award twice. He is also the recipient of the best paper awards at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2011 and ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2013.

Prof. Sinanoglu’s research interests include design-for-test, design-for-security and design-for-trust for VLSI circuits, where he has more than 180 conference and journal papers, and 20 issued and pending