Farinaz Koushanfar

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Farinaz Koushanfar
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Education
Awards IEEE Fellow
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Ensuring data integrity in sensor-based networked systems  (2005)
Doctoral advisor
Website farinaz.eng.ucsd.edu

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]

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Education and career

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]

Recognition

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]

Selected publications

Resources

  1. Memarian, Jahandad (July 16, 2018). "Farinaz Koushanfar: A Pioneer in Machine-Integrated Computing and Security". Iranian Americans’ Contributions Project via Medium.
  2. 1 2 3 "Curriculum vitae" . Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  3. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto L. "Ph.D. Dissertations". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  4. Farinaz Koushanfar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Savage, Neil (2008). "Farinaz Koushanfar, 32: Locking microchips to prevent piracy". Innovator under 35. MIT Technology Review .
  6. "Award recipients 2017". ICCAD. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  7. "Eight ONR-funded Scientists Among Those Recognized by U.S. President". December 1, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  8. "IEEE Fellows directory" . Retrieved 2021-10-02.
  9. "Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today". Association for Computing Machinery. January 18, 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-18.

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