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| Awards | IEEE Fellow |
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| Thesis | Ensuring data integrity in sensor-based networked systems (2005) |
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| Website | farinaz |
Farinaz Koushanfar is an Iranian-American computer scientist [1] whose research concerns embedded systems, ad-hoc networks, and computer security. She is a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. [2]
Koushanfar obtained her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (BSEE 1998), a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000, and a second master's degree in statistics and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, [2] with the dissertation Ensuring data integrity in sensor-based networked systems jointly supervised by Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Miodrag Potkonjak. [3] [4]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she joined the faculty of Rice University in 2006. She moved to her present position in San Diego in 2015. [2]
In 2008, Koushanfar was listed in the MIT Technology Review "35 Innovators Under 35" for her work using random variation in integrated circuits as a device fingerprint allowing manufacturers to validate the authenticity of devices. [5] Her 2008 paper "Lightweight Secure PUFs" was given the Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award in 2017 at the International Conference on Computer Aided Design. [6]
She was named a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010 [7] and an IEEE Fellow in 2019, "for contributions to hardware and embedded systems security and to privacy-preserving computing". [8] She was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to secure computing and privacy-preserving machine learning". [9] In 2024, Koushanfar was elected to become a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) fellow, "the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors". [10]
