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 also serves as the Associate Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on hardware security verification, formal methods, fault-injection attack analysis, and post-silicon validation and debug, resulting in 8 books and over 140 publications in these fields. Dr. Farahmandi’s research has been sponsored by a variety of leading companies and government agencies. For her contributions, she is a recipient of 11 best paper and nomination awards (HOST -2 papers, VLSI-SoC, ASP-DAC -2 papers, PAINE -2 papers, ITC, and DATE -3 papers), and was recognized with the ACM/IEEE DAC Under 40 Innovators Award (2024), the Best Assistant Professor Award at the University of Florida (2024), Pramod Khargonekar Excellence Award for the Best Assistant Professor going through tenure process (2025), the Excellence in Service Award (2023), and the Excellence in Research Award (2022) from the ECE department at UF. She also received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from SRC (2022) and the NSF CAREER Award.
Her contributions have led to 9 book chapters, 12 issued or pending patents, and sustained sponsorship from agencies including NSF, SRC, ONR, AFRL, DARPA, Nimbus Services, Analog Devices, AFWERX, Dynetics, Battelle, ARM, NSF Engine, ANSYS, Synopsys, Cisco, Monolithic Power Systems, and many more. Beyond her research, she actively contributes to the academic community. Dr. Farahmandi serves as an Associate Editor of IET Computers & Digital Techniques and participates in the technical and organizing committees of leading IEEE and ACM conferences. She co-founded a new workshop called “CAD for Security (CAD4Sec)” which she served as Program Chair in 2022, 2023, and 2025. The workshop focuses on security verification solutions for SoCs offered by those in academia and industry. It brings more than 100 experts together to discuss the latest discoveries in this field. She is also leading the “CAD4Sec Web Portal” (http://cad4security.org/) which offers community solutions, benchmarks, educational/training resources, competitions, and more.
Dr. Farimah Farahmandi received her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) from the University of Florida in 2018 and currently directs the Security Assurance Lab at UF. Previously, she also served as the Associate Director of the Edaptive Computing Inc. Transition Center (ECI-TC) at the University of Florida.
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