Farinaz Koushanfar Explained

Workplaces:	Univ. of Illinois (2005–2006) Rice Univ. (2006–2015) UC San Diego (2015–)
Education:	Sharif Univ. (BSEE 1998) UCLA (MS 2000) UC Berkeley (MA, PhD 2005)
Thesis Title:	Ensuring data integrity in sensor-based networked systems
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:	2005
Doctoral Advisor:	Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli Miodrag Potkonjak
Awards:	IEEE Fellow

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]

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]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

She was named a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010^[6] and an IEEE Fellow in 2019, "for contributions to hardware and embedded systems security and to privacy-preserving computing".^[7] She was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to secure computing and privacy-preserving machine learning".^[8]

Selected publications

• Book: Meguerdichian. Seapahn. Koushanfar. Farinaz. Qu. Gang. Potkonjak. Miodrag. Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking . Exposure in wireless Ad-Hoc sensor networks . 2001-07-16. https://doi.org/10.1145/381677.381691. MobiCom '01. New York, NY, USA. Association for Computing Machinery. 139–150. 10.1145/381677.381691. 978-1-58113-422-3. 1930412.
• Book: Koushanfar. F.. Potkonjak. M.. Sangiovanni-Vincentell. A. . Proceedings of IEEE Sensors . Fault tolerance techniques for wireless ad hoc sensor networks . 2002 . 2 . 1491–1496 . 10.1109/ICSENS.2002.1037343. 0-7803-7454-1. 1437073.
• Book: Majzoobi. Mehrdad. Koushanfar. Farinaz. Potkonjak. Miodrag. 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design . Lightweight secure PUFs . 2008. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4681648. 670–673. 10.1109/ICCAD.2008.4681648. 978-1-4244-2819-9. 12674609.
• Tehranipoor. Mohammad. Koushanfar. Farinaz. 2010. A Survey of Hardware Trojan Taxonomy and Detection. IEEE Design & Test of Computers. 27. 1. 10–25. 10.1109/MDT.2010.7. 206459491. 1558-1918.

External links

• Home page

Notes and References

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