Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Florida
Email: farimah@ece.ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 392-0910
Address: 1889 Museum Road
Gainesville, Florida, 32611
Office: Malachowsky Hall, 4200C
Dr. Farimah Farahmandi is the Wally Rhines Endowed Professor in Hardware Security in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Florida. She serves as the Associate Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) and the Edaptive Computing Inc. Transition Center (ECI-TC) at the University of Florida. Dr. Farahmandi received her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) from the University of Florida in 2018.
Dr. Farahmandi’s research expertise spans hardware security verification, formal methods, fault-injection attack analysis, side-channel leakage assessment, information leakage, secure physical design, secure supply chain of microelectronics, and post-silicon validation and debugging. Her work has resulted in 7 books, 9 book chapters, 12 issued or pending patents, and over 140 publications in premier ACM/IEEE journals and conferences. Her research is sponsored by leading organizations, including NSF, SRC, DARPA, AFRL, DoD, ONR, Analog Devices, ANSYS, Synopsys, and Cisco.
Dr. Farahmandi has been widely recognized for her contributions to the field. She is the recipient of the ACM/IEEE DAC Under 40 Innovators Award (2024) and the NSF CAREER Award (2024-2029) for her project titled “SAIF: Security Assurance through AI and Formal Approaches for System-on-Chips.” She received the Excellence Award for Assistant Professors from both the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the University-wide level at UF in 2024. Additionally, she earned the Service Excellence Award (2023) and the Research Excellence Award (2022) from the ECE department at UF, as well as the Young Faculty Award from SRC in 2022. Her work has also been recognized with 7 best paper awards and nominations at premier IEEE/ACM conferences such as ASP-DAC and DATE.
Dr. Farahmandi directs the Silicon Design and Assurance Lab (SiLDA) at UF and is deeply engaged in academic service. She serves as an Associate Editor of IET Computers & Digital Techniques and has contributed to the technical and organizing committees of numerous ACM and IEEE conferences. Notably, she was the Program Chair of IEEE HOST 2023 and will continue in this role for IEEE HOST 2024. Dr. Farahmandi also co-founded CAD4Sec (www.cad4security.org), a web portal dedicated to sharing resources, solutions, events, and training modules in the area of CAD for System-on-Chip (SoC) Security. She is a member of IEEE and ACM and actively contributes to advancing the field of hardware security.
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