About
I joined the CSEE Department of UMBC as an Assistant Prof. in January 2017. My research interests include hardware security and VLSI testing and Design. I have published over 115 papers in refereed Journals and Conference proceedings. I have also published five book chapters.
Research interests
Hardware Security
Design for Security and Trust
Design for Testability
Design for Reliability and Fault Tolerance
Hardware Design and Synthesis
VLSI
FPGA & ASIC Design
Internet of Things (IOT)
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Teaching interests
Hardware Security
VLSI Testing
Programmable Logic Devices
VLSI Design
Computer Architecture
Digital Logic
Publications
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Signal Rise-Fall Time Based Fingerprinting in CAN Networks 2026
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2026) · pp. 6
Hasin Reefat, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Mohamed F Younis, Naghmeh Karimi
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Assessment of Security Risks and Defenses in Chiplet 2026
VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) · IEEE · pp. 1-11 · Accepted
Hasin Ishraq Reefat, Hossein Pourmehrani, Junie UM, Sylvain Guilley, N. Karimi
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ROCKET: Runtime Operating-Condition Aware KEy Refreshing Technique for Resisting Side-Channel Analysis Attacks 2026
VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) · IEEE · pp. 1-7 · Accepted
H. Ishraq Reefat, H. Pourmehrani, J.-L. Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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PHANTOM: Power Hammering Attack and Countermeasure on Multi-Tenant ReRAM Compute-in-Memory Accelerators 2026
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY · 21 · pp. 1606-1621
AR Bommana, R Bishnoi, Naghmeh Karimi, F Firouzi, K Chakrabarty
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Adversarial Machine Learning: From Attack Surface to Defence Mechanism
2026
Smart and Connected Health: AI, IoT, and Trustworthy Technologies · Springer Nature Switzerland · pp. 621-711
Hossein Pourmehrani, Naghmeh Karimi, Farshad Firouzi
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Glitch Propagation Through Flip-Flops Endangers Masking Schemes: Why Time Separation Is Required 2026
IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) · Accepted
H. I. Reefat, M. Ebrahimabadi, S. Takarabt, S. Guilley, N. Karimi
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HEED: A Highly Efficient Electromagnetic Fault Detection Scheme 2026
IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) · Accepted
R. Nabhan, M. Ebrahimabadi, J.-L. Danger, J.-M. Dutertre, S. Guilley, N. Karimi, R. Viera, I. Zaarour
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TARN: Trust Aware Routing To Enhance Security In 3D Network-on-Chips 2025
IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) · pp. 6
Hasin I Reefat, A. Aversa, I. Savidis, N. Karimi
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FAMOUS: Fault Attack Mitigation via Exploiting Invariances in Deep Neural Networks
2025
2025 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) · IEEE · pp. 478-481
Javad Bahrami, Parsa Nooralinejad, Hamed Pirsiavash, Naghmeh Karimi
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Avoiding Malicious Nodes of a 3-D NoC with Security-Aware Priority-Based Routing
2025
Alec Aversa, H. I. Reefat, Naghmeh Karimi, Ioannis Savidis
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CBM-TI: Code-Based Masking against Glitches by Hybridization with Threshold Implementation
2025
2025 IEEE 43rd VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) · IEEE · pp. 1-11
Hasin Ishraq Reefat, Hossein Pourmehrani, Wei Cheng, Claude Carlet, Abderrahman Daif, Cédric Tavernier, Sylvain Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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TIGER: TrIaGing KEy Refreshing Frequency via Digital Sensors
2025
International Conference on Security and Cryptography · pp. 372-380
M. T. H Anik, H. I Reefat, M. Ebrahimabadi, J. Bahrami, H. Pourmehrani, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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BISSEL: Built-In Self Security via Embedded Sensors for Reproducible Side-Channel Leakage Assessment 2025
IEEE European Test Symp. (ETS)
Md Toufi Hasan Anik, H. Ishraq Reefat, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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Multi- Sensor Data Fusion for Enhanced Detection of Laser Fault Injection Attacks in Cryptographic Hardware: Practical Results 2025
IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
M. Ebrahimabadi, R. Viera, S. Guilley, J.-L. Danger, J.-M. Dutertre, N. Karimi
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SUMIT: Secure Unicast and Multicast Communication in Internet of Mobile Things 2024
The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024) · pp. 6
Hasin I Reefat, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Mohamed F Younis, Mona Alkanhal, Karimi Naghmeh
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PETIT: PUF-enabled Trust Evaluation Framework for IoT Networks 2024
Computer Networks · 254 · pp. 110772
Suhee Sanjana Mehjabin, Mohamed F Younis, Ali Tekeoglu, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Tamim Sookoor, Karimi Naghmeh
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Robust and Lightweight Challenge Obfuscation Mechanism for Anti-Modeling Protection of Arbiter-PUFs
2024
Journal of Hardware and Systems Security · pp. 17
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Mohamed F Younis, Suhee Sanjana Mehjabin, Ali Tekeoglu, Tamim Sookoor, Karimi Naghmeh
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Attacking Multi-Tenant FPGAs Without Manual Placement and Routing 2024
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symp. on VLSI (ISVLSI)
Md Toufi Hasan Anik, H. Ishraq Reefat, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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FAT-RABBIT: Fault-Aware Training towards Robustness Against Bit-flip Based Attacks in Deep Neural Networks 2024
International Test Conf. (ITC)
H. Pourmehrani, J. Bahrami, P. Nooralinejad, H Pirsiavash, Karimi Naghmeh
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DELFINES: DETECTING LASER FAULT INJECTION ATTACKS VIA DIGITAL SENSORS 2024
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. (TCAD)
M. Ebrahimabadi, S. Mehjabin, R. Viera, S. Guilley, J.-L. Danger, J.-M. Dutertre, Karimi Naghmeh
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Multi-modal Pre-silicon Evaluation of Hardware Masking Styles 2024
Springer Journal of Electronic Testing (JETTA) · pp. 18
M.T.H Anik, W. Cheng, J.-L. Danger, S. Guilley, N. Karimi
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On the Resiliency of Protected Masked S-Boxes against Template Attack in the Presence of Temperature and Aging Misalignments 2024
IEEE Trans. on VLSI (TVLSI)
M.T.H. Anik, J.-L. Danger, S. Guilley, N. Karimi
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The 28th IEEE European Test Symposium 2024
IEEE Design and Test Journal
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Impact of Process Mismatch and Device Aging on SR-Latch Based True Random Number Generators 2024
Springer International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE)
J. Bahrami, M. Ebrahimabadi, S. Guilley, J.-L. Danger, Karimi Naghmeh
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Securing ISW Masking Scheme Against Glitches 2024
IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
Sofiane Takarabt, M. Ebrahimabadi, J. Bahrami, S. Guilley, Karimi Naghmeh
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Aging-Induced Failure Prognosis via Digital Sensors 2023
Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI (GLSVLSI)
Md Toufi Hasan Anik, H. Ishraq Reefat, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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Challenges in Generating True Random Numbers Considering the Variety of Corners, Aging, and Intentional Attacks 2023
Int’l Conf. on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT)
J. Bahrami, J.-L. Danger, M. Ebrahimabadi, S. Guilley, Karimi Naghmeh
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Evaluation of Entity Trustworthiness Based on Public and Private Data 2023
Int’l Conf. on Trust Management (IFIPTM)
M. L. Sel, H. Ishraq Reefat, Naghmeh Karimi, K. Mersinas
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Security Order of Gate Level Masking Schemes 2023
IEEE Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust Symp. (HOST)
Sofiane Takarabt, J. Bahrami, M. Ebrahimabadi, S. Guilley, Karimi Naghmeh
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Security Verification & Testing for SR-Latch TRNGs 2023
VLSI Test Symp. (VTS)
J. Bahrami, M. Ebrahimabadi, J.-L. Danger, S. Guilley, Karimi Naghmeh
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Testing and Reliability Enhancement of Security Primitives: Methodology and Experimental Validation 2023
Microelectronics Reliability Journal
M. H. T. Anik, J.-L. Danger, O. Diankha, M. Ebrahimabadi, C. Frisch, S. Guilley, N. Karimi, M. Pehl, S. Takarabt, S. Takarabt
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Collusion-resistant PUF-based Distributed Device Authentication Protocol for Internet of Things 2022
The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022) · pp. 6
Wassila Lalouani, Mohamed F Younis, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Karimi Naghmeh
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SWeeT: Security Protocol for Wearables Embedded Devices' Data Transmission 2022
The IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom 2022) · pp. 6
Mohamed F Younis, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Wassila Lalouani, Karimi Naghmeh, Abdulaziz Alshaeri
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Countering Modeling Attacks in PUF-based IoT Security Solutions 2022
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems · 18 (3) · pp. 1–28
Wassila Lalouani, Mohamed F Younis, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Karimi Naghmeh
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A PUF-Based Modeling-Attack Resilient Authentication Protocol for IoT Devices 2022
IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 9 (5) · pp. 3684 – 3703
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Mohamed F Younis, Karimi Naghmeh
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An Attack Resilient PUF-based Authentication Mechanism for Distributed Systems 2022
The VLSI Design Conference (VLSID 2022) · pp. 6
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Mohamed F Younis, Wassila Lalouani, Karimi Naghmeh
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Detecting Laser Fault Injection Attacks via Time-to-Digital Converter Sensors 2022
Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust Symp. (HOST)
M. Ebrahimabadi, S. Mehjabin, R. Viera, S. Guilley, J.-L. Danger, J.-M. Dutertre, Karimi Naghmeh
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Does Aging Matter? The Curious Case of Fault Sensitivity Analysis 2022
IEEE Int'l Symp. on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)
M. Ebrahimabadi, B. Fadaeinia, A Moradi, Karimi Naghmeh
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On the Practicality of Relying on Simulations in Different Abstraction Levels for Pre-Silicon Side-Channel Analysis 2022
Springer SECRYPT
J. Bahrami, M. Ebrahimabadi, S. Takarabt, J.-L. Danger, S. Guilley, Karimi Naghmeh
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On the Reliability of Conventional and Quantum Neural Network Hardware 2022
VLSI Test Symp.
M. Sadi, Y. He, Y. Li, M. Alam, S. Kundu, S. Ghosh, J. Bahrami, Karimi Naghmeh
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Leakage Power Analysis in Different S-Box Masking Protection Schemes 2022
IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
J. Bahrami, M. Ebrahimabadi, J.-L. Danger, S. Guilley, Karimi Naghmeh
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Countering PUF Modeling Attacks through Adversarial Machine Learning 2021
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symp. on VLSI (ISVLSI) · pp. 6
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Wassila Lalouani,, Mohamed F Younis, Karimi Naghmeh
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Enhancing the Resiliency of Multi-Bit Parallel Arbiter-PUF and its Derivatives against Power Attacks 2021
COSADE: Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design
Trevor Kroeger, Wei Cheng, S. Guilley, J.-L. Danger, Karimi Naghmeh
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Learning Assisted Side Channel Delay Test for Detection of Recycled ICs
2021
Proceedings of the 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference · Association for Computing Machinery · pp. 455–462
Ashkan Vakil, Farzad Niknia, Ali Mirzaeian, Avesta Sasan, Naghmeh Karimi
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Making Obfuscated PUFs Secure Against Power Side-Channel Based Modeling Attacks 2021
Design, Test, and Automation in Europe (DATE)
Trevor Kroeger, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger, Naghmeh Karimi
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: Boons and Banes of Machine Learning in Hardware Security 2021
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
W. Liu, C. -H Chang, J. M Fung, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Naghmeh Karimi, X, Meng, K. Basu
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A Novel Modeling-Attack Resilient Arbiter-PUF Design 2021
The IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design & Embedded Systems (VLSID 2021) · pp. 6
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Mohamed F Younis, Wassila Lalouani, Karimi Naghmeh
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Smart Grid Cyber Attack Protection through Hardware Fingerprinting 2021
Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Conference (ICC 2021) · pp. 6
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Mohamed F Younis, Karimi Naghmeh
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On the Impact of Aging on Power Analysis Attacks Targeting Power-Equalized Cryptographic Circuits 2021
2021 26th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) · pp. 414-420
Md Toufiq Hasan Anik, Bijan Fadaeinia, Amir Moradi, Naghmeh Karimi
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Using Digital Sensors to Leverage Chips' Security 2020
2020 IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE) · pp. 1-6
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Md T.H Anik, J. -L Danger, S. Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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On-Chip Voltage and Temperature Digital Sensor for Security, Reliability, and Portability 2020
2020 IEEE 38th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) · pp. 506-509
M. T. H Anik, M. Ebrahimabadi, Hamed Pirsiavash, J. -L Danger, S. Guilley, Naghmeh Karimi
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PUF Enrollment and Life Cycle Management: Solutions and Perspectives for the Test Community 2020
2020 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS) · pp. 1-10
A. A Pour, V. Beroulle, B. Cambou, J. Danger, G. Di Natale, D. Hely, S. Guilley, Naghmeh Karim
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DFSSD: Deep Faults and Shallow State Duality, A Provably Strong Obfuscation Solution for Circuits with Restricted Access to Scan Chain 2020
2020 IEEE 38th VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) · pp. 1-6
S. Roshanisefat, H. M Kamali, K. Zamiri Azar, S. M. Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Naghmeh Karimi, H. Homayoun, A. Sasan
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LASCA: Learning Assisted Side Channel Delay Analysis for Hardware Trojan Detection 2020
2020 21st International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) · pp. 40-45
A. Vakil, F. Behnia, A. Mirzaeian, H. Homayoun, Naghmeh Karimi, A. Sasan
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Cross Attacks on Arbiter-PUFs through Their Power Side-Channel 2020
International Test Conf. (ITC) · pp. 1-5
Trevor Kroeger, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger, Naghmeh Karimi
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Failure and Attack Detection by Digital Sensors 2020
European Test Symp. (ETS) · pp. 1-2
Md Toufiq Hasan Anik, Rachit Saini, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley, naghmeh Karimi
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On the Effect of Aging on Digital Sensors 2020
VLSI Design. Conf. · pp. 1-6
Md Toufiq Hasan Anik, Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger, Naghmeh Karimi
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Implementation-based design fingerprinting for robust IC fraud detection
2019
Journal of Hardware and Systems Security · 3 (4) · pp. 426–439
James Shey, Karimi Naghmeh, Chintan Patel, Ryan W Robucci
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Real-Time Prediction for IC Aging Based on Machine Learning 2019
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Ke Huang, Xinqiao Zhang, Naghmeh Karimi
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Exploring the Effect of Device Aging on Static Power Analysis Attacks 2019
Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)
Naghmeh Karimi, Amir Moradi, Thorben Moos
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Countering IP Security threats in Supply chain 2019
VLSI Test Symp. (VTS) · pp. 1-9
Hassan Salmani, Tamzidul Hoque, Swarup Bhunia, Muhammad Yasin, Jeyavijayan J. V. Rajendran, Naghmeh Karimi
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Design-Based Fingerprinting Using Side-Channel Power Analysis for Protection Against IC Piracy 2018
ISVLSI Conference · pp. 614-619
James Shey, Naghmeh Karimi, Ryan Robucci, Chintan Patel
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Device Aging: A Reliability and Security Concern 2018
European Test Symp. (ETS) · pp. 1-10
Daniel Kraak, Mottaqiallah Taouil, Said Hamdioui, Pieter Weckx, Francky r Catthoo, Abhijit Chatterjee, Adit D. Singh, Hans-Joachim Wunderlich, Naghmeh Karimi
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Impact of Aging on the Reliability of Delay PUFs 2018
Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and applications (JETTA) · 34 (5) · pp. 571-586
Naghmeh Karimi, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley
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On the Effect of Aging in Detecting Hardware Trojan Horses with Template Analysis 2018
International Online Test Symp. · pp. 281-286
Naghmeh Karimi, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley
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Impact of Aging on Template Attacks 2018
ACM Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI (GlSVLSI) · pp. 455-458
Naghmeh Karimi, Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger
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Impact of the Switching Activity on the Aging of Delay- PUFs 2017
European Test Symp. (ETS)
Naghmeh Karimi, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley
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Testing and Reliability Enhancement of Security Primitives
IEEE Int'l Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance of VLSI Systems (DFTS)
M. H. T. Anik, J.-L. Danger, O. Diankha, M. Ebrahimabadi, C. Frisch, S. Guilley, Karimi Naghmeh, M. Pehl, S. Takarabt
Presentations
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CBM-TI: Code-Based Masking against Glitches by Hybridization with Threshold Implementation 2025
VLSI Test Symp. (VTS) · IEEE · Oral Presentation
H. I. Reefat (Author), H. Pourmehrani (Author), W. Cheng (Author), C. Carlet (Author), A. Daif (Author), C. Tavernier (Author), S. Guilley (Author), N. Karimi (Author & Presenter)
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SUMIT: Secure Unicast and Multicast Communication in Internet of Mobile Things 2024
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024) · IEEE · Oral Presentation
Hasin Reefat (Author), Mohammad Ebrahimabadi (Author), Mohamed F Younis (Author & Presenter), Karimi Naghmeh (Author)
Grants and Contracts
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WILD FUNCTION (SAT-Hard Obfuscation) 2020
Northrop Grumman (Airforce) · Grant · Funded
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Student Travel Support for 2018 IEEE VLSI Test Symp. 2018
NSF · Grant · Funded
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Which Delay-PUF to Use? Addressing Stability and Aging Resiliency of Delay-PUFs 2017
UMBC · Grant · Funded
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Aging and Security - Friends or Foes?
NSF · Grant · Not Funded
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Collaborative Research: CPS-FR: A Distributed Cyber- Physical Framework for Multi-modal Detection of Aggressive Driving
National Science Foundation · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Naghmeh Karimi (Co-Principal)
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CPS Cyber Attack Protection through Hardware Fingerprinting
MITRE · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Karimi Naghmeh (Co-Principal)
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DeepLock: Logic Locking for Hardware Protection using Deep Learning
National Cybersecurity FFRDC (Running by MITRE) · Grant · Not Funded
Naghmeh Karimi (Principal), Hamed Pirsiavash (Co-Principal)
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Hardware Protection through Logic Obfuscation using Deep Learning
Keck Foundation (internal phase proposal selection) · Grant · Not Funded
Naghmeh Karimi (Principal), Hamed Pirsiavash (Co-Principal)
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Increased PUF Resilience through Adversarial Machine Learning
Semiconductor Research Corporation · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Naghmeh Karimi (Co-Principal)
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Investigating the Vulnerability of Modern Microprocessors to Aging Attacks and Developing Aging-Resilient Microprocessors
UMBC (Strategic Awards for Research Transitions) · Grant · Not Funded
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SaTC: CORE: Small: Distributed Hardware-assisted Authentication and Key Management for IoT
National Science Foundation · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Naghmeh Karimi (Co-Principal)
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SaTC: CORE: Small: Hardware-Assisted Cyber Attack Protection Schemes for IoT
National Science Foundation · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Naghmeh Karimi (Co-Principal)
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SaTC: CORE: Small: Resilient Hardware-assisted Authentication Schemes for IoT
National Science Foundation · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Naghmeh Karimi (Co-Principal)
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Secure Hardware-Based Device Authentication in IoT Frameworks
Semiconductor Research Corporation · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Naghmeh Karimi (Co-Principal)
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Securing Cyber Physical Systems against Hardware Tampering
MITRE/USM · Grant · Not Funded
Mohamed F Younis (Principal), Naghmeh Karimi (Co-Principal)
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Securing Modern Microprocessors via online Hardware Trojan Detection
UMBC (Strategic Awards for Research Transitions) · Grant · Not Funded
Courses Taught
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VLSI Design Verification
CMPE 646 · Spring 2018
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Hardware Security
CMPE 691 · Fall 2017
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VLSI Testing
CMPE 646 · Spring 2017
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VLSI Design Verif/Test
CMPE 418 · Spring 2017