Mark Tehranipoor Explained

Mark M. Tehranipoor
Birth Place:	Iran
Nationality:	Iranian-American
Education:	University of Texas at Dallas
Field:	Hardware security Design for testing Electrical and Computer Engineering
Work Institutions:	University of Florida (f.m.r) University of Connecticut (f.m.r) University of Maryland
Prizes:	ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow NAI Fellow HOST Hall of Fame Inductee^[1] NSF CAREER Award MURI Award on Nanoscale Security SRC Aristotle

Mark M. Tehranipoor is an Iranian American academic researcher specializing in hardware security and trust, electronics supply chain security, IoT security, and reliable and testable VLSI design. He is the Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of Florida and serves as the Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research.^[2] Since June 2022, he has served as the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.^[3] He is a fellow of IEEE, ACM, and NAI as well as a Golden Core member of the IEEE. He is a co-founder of the International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). He is the recipient of the 2023 SRC Aristotle award. Tehranipoor also serves as a co-director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research CYAN and MEST Centers of Excellence.^{[4] [5]}

Life

Tehranipoor earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic in 1997. After completing his Masters of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2000, he received the Texas Public Educational Grant and moved to the United States to pursue his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, completing the doctorate in two years and eight months.

He spent two years at the University of Maryland Baltimore as an assistant professor before moving to the University of Connecticut.

At UConn, he started to publish a series of books on Hardware Security, with the first being the Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust.

He initiated and established three centers of excellence in the area of hardware and cyber security; the Center for Hardware Assurance and Engineering (CHASE),^[6] Comcast Center of Excellence on Security Innovation (CSI),^[7] and the Connecticut Cybersecurity Center (C3).^[8]

He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2008 and AFOSR MURI Award in 2014.

Later in 2015, Tehranipoor moved to the University of Florida, acquiring the title of Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity. He serves as the Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research.^[2] He is an IEEE fellow, ACM fellow and a co-founder of the International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust. Tehranipoor also serves as a co-director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research CYAN and MEST Centers of Excellence.^[4] In June 2022, Tehranipoor became the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.

Publications and patents

Tehranipoor has published over 600 conference and journal papers, 19 books, and holds 22 patents, with at least 24 more pending.^[9]

Select Books

• Mark Tehranipoor, Emerging Topics in Hardware Security, Springer, 2020.^[10]
• Navid Asadi, Md. Tanjid Rahman and Mark M. Tehranipoor, Physical Assurance: For Electronic Devices and Systems, Springer, 2020.^[11]
• Swarup Bhunia and Mark M. Tehranipoor, Hardware Security: A Hands-on Learning Approach, Elsevier, Morgan Kaufmann imprint, 2018.^[12]
• M. Tehranipoor, D. Forte, G, Rose, and S. Bhunia, Security Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies, CRC Press, 2017.^[13]
• S. Bhunia and M. Tehranipoor, The Hardware Trojan War: Attacks, Myths, and Defenses, Springer, 2017.^[14]
• D. Forte, S. Bhunia, and M. Tehranipoor, Hardware Protection through Obfuscation, Springer, 2017.^[15]
• P. Mishra, S. Bhunia, and M. Tehranipoor, Hardware IP Security and Trust, Springer, 2017.^[16]
• M. Tehranipoor, U. Guin, and D. Forte, Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: Detection and Avoidance, Springer, 2015.^[17]
• M. Tehranipoor, H. Salmani, and X. Zhang, Integrated Circuit Authentication: Hardware Trojans and Counterfeit Detection, Springer, July 2013.^[18]
• M. Tehranipoor and C. Wang, Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust, Springer, August 2011.^[19]
• M. Tehranipoor, K. Peng, and K. Chakrabarty, Test and Diagnosis for Small-Delay Defects, Springer, September 2011.^[20]
• M. Tehranipoor, Emerging Nanotechnologies: Test, Defect Tolerance, and Reliability, Springer, November 2007.^[21]
• M. Tehranipoor and N. Ahmed, Nanometer Technology Designs: High-Quality Delay Tests, Springer, December 2007.^[22]

Select articles

• M. Tehranipoor and F. Koushanfar, "A Survey of Hardware Trojan Taxonomy and Detection," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, 2010.^[23]
• U. Guin, K. Huang, D. DiMase, J. Carulli, M. Tehranipoor, Y. Makris, "Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: A Rising Threat in the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain," Proceedings of IEEE, 2014.^[24]
• H. Salmani, M. Tehranipoor, and J. Plusquellic, "A Novel Technique for Improving Hardware Trojan Detection and Reducing Trojan Activation Time," IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI), 2012.^[25]
• X. Xu, B. Shakiya, M. Tehranipoor, and D. Forte, "Novel Bypass Attack and BDD-based Tradeoff Analysis Against all Known Logic Locking Attacks," Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2017.^[26]
• K. Xiao and M. Tehranipoor, "BISA: Built-In Self-Authentication for Preventing Hardware Trojan Insertion," Int. IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2013.^[27]
• A. Nahiyan, K. Xiao, D. Forte, Y. Jin, and M. Tehranipoor, "AVFSM: A Framework for Identifying and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in FSMs," Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2016.^[28]
• U. Guin, Q. Shi, D. Forte, and M. Tehranipoor, "FORTIS: A Comprehensive Solution for Establishing Forward Trust for Protecting IPs and ICs," ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2016.^[29]
• M. T. Rahman, M. S. Rahman, H. Wang, S. Tajik, W. Khalil, F. Farahmandi, D. Forte, N. Asadi, and M. Tehranipoor, "Defense-in-Depth: A Recipe for Logic Locking to Prevail," Integration, the VLSI Journal, 2020.^[30]

Select Patents

• Embedded ring oscillator network for integrated circuit security and threat detection, 2014, M. Tehranipoor, X. Wang, X. Zhang, US 8850608 B2, WO 2012122309 A3 (Grant) ^[31]
• Methods and Systems for Hardware Piracy Prevention, 2014, M. Tehranipoor and N. Tuzzio, US9071428 B2 (Grant) ^[32]
• Methods and Systems for Preventing Hardware Trojan Insertion, M. Tehranipoor and K. Xiao, US20140283147 A1 (Grant)^[33]
• Photon-Counting Security Tagging and Verification Using Optically Encoded QR Codes, B. Javidi, A. Markman, and M. Tehranipoor, US20150295711 A1 (Grant)^[34]
• UCR: An Unclonable Environmentally-Sensitive Chipless RFID Tag, Jan. 15, 2019, M. Tehranipoor, D. Forte, K. Yang, and H. Shen, 10181065 (Grant)^[35]
• Vanishing Via for Hardware IP Protection Against Reverse Engineering, 2017, S. Bhunia, M. Tehranipoor, D. Forte, N. Asadi, and H. Shen, 10283459 (Grant)^[36]
• Unclonable environmentally-sensitive chipless RFID tag with a plurality of slot resonators, 10181065, Mark Tehranipoor, Kun Yang, Haoting Shen, and Domenic Forte (Grant)^[37]
• Layout-Driven Method to Assess Vulnerability of ICs to Microprobing Attacks, M. Tehranipoor, D. Forte, N. Asadi, and Q. Shi, U.S. Patent No. 10,573,605 (Grant)^[38]

Notes and References

1. http://www.hostsymposium.org/host_hof.php HOST Symposium Hall of Fame
2. http://tehranipoor.ece.ufl.edu/index.html Mark Tehranipoor, University of Florida
3. Web site: ECE Florida Welcomes Mark Tehranipoor as Department Chair – ECE FLORIDA . 6 June 2022 .
4. https://www.eng.ufl.edu/newengineer/events/hardware-security-research-and-education-centers-of-excellence-open-at-university-of-florida-and-ohio-state/ Hardware Security Research and Education Centers of Excellence open at University of Florida and Ohio State
5. https://mest.ece.ufl.edu/index.php/our-team/ National Micro Electronics Security Training Center - Our Team
6. https://www.chase.uconn.edu/ Center for Hardware Assurance and Engineering
7. http://www.csi.uconn.edu/ Comcast Center of Excellence on Security Innovation
8. https://ccc.engr.uconn.edu/ Connecticut Cybersecurity Center
9. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n9JsBeAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Mark M. Tehranipoor - Google Scholar
10. Book: Tehranipoor . Mark . Emerging Topics in Hardware Security . 20 February 2021 . Springer . 978-3-030-64447-5 .
11. Book: Asadizanjani, Rahman, Tehranipoor . Navid, Mir Tanjidur, Mark . Physical Assurance For Electronic Devices and Systems . 16 February 2021 . Springer . 978-3-030-62608-2 .
12. Book: Bhunia, Tehranipoor . Swarup, Mark . Hardware Security: A Hands-on Learning Approach . October 30, 2018 . Morgan Kaufmann . 9780128124772 .
13. Book: Forte, Bhunia, Tehranipoor . Domenic, Swarup, Mark . Security Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies . 30 June 2020 . CRC Press . 9780367572624 .
14. Book: Bhunia, Tehranipoor . Swarup, Mark . The Hardware Trojan War: Attacks, Myths, and Defenses . 29 November 2017 . Springer . 978-3-319-68511-3 .
15. Book: Forte, Bhunia, Tehranipoor . Domenic, Swarup, Mark . Hardware Protection through Obfuscation . 2 January 2017 . Springer . 978-3-319-49019-9 .
16. Book: Mishra, Bhunia, Tehranipoor . Prabhat, Swarup, Mark . Hardware IP Security and Trust . 2 January 2017 . Springer . 978-3-319-49025-0 .
17. Book: Tehranipoor, Guin, Forte . Mark, Ujjwal, Domenic . Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: Detection and Avoidance . 12 February 2015 . Springer . 978-3-319-11824-6 .
18. Book: Tehranipoor, Salmani, Zhang . Mark, Hassan, Xuehui . Integrated Circuit Authentication: Hardware Trojans and Counterfeit Detection . 4 October 2013 . Springer . 978-3-319-00816-5 .
19. Book: Tehranipoor, Wang . Mark, Cliff . Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust . 22 September 2011 . Springer . 978-1-4419-8080-9 .
20. Book: Tehranipoor, Peng, Chakrabarty . Mark, Ke, Krishnendu . Test and Diagnosis for Small-Delay Defects . 8 September 2011 . Springer . 978-1-4419-8297-1 .
21. Book: Tehranipoor . Mark . Emerging Nanotechnologies: Test, Defect Tolerance, and Reliability . 8 December 2007 . Springer . 978-0-387-74747-7 .
22. Book: Ahmed, Tehranipoor . Nisar, Mark . Nanometer Technology Designs: High-Quality Delay Tests . 2008 . Springer . 10.1007/978-0-387-75728-5 . 978-0-387-76486-3 .
23. Tehranipoor . Mohammad . Koushanfar . Farinaz. Farinaz Koushanfar . A Survey of Hardware Trojan Taxonomy and Detection . IEEE Design & Test of Computers . January 2010 . 27 . 1 . 10–25 . 10.1109/MDT.2010.7. 206459491 .
24. Guin, Huang, DiMase, Carulli, Tehranipoor, Makris . Ujjwal, Ke, Daniel, John M., Mark, Yiorgos . Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: A Rising Threat in the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain . Proceedings of the IEEE . July 15, 2014 . 102 . 8 . 1207–1228 . 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2332291 . 15766845 . free .
25. Salmani, Tehranipoor, Plusquellic . Hassan, Mark, Jim . A Novel Technique for Improving Hardware Trojan Detection and Reducing Trojan Activation Time . IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems . January 2, 2011 . 20 . 1 . 112–125 . 10.1109/TVLSI.2010.2093547 . 5242798 .
26. Book: Xu, Shakya, Tehranipoor, Forte . Xiaolin, Bicky, Mark, Domenic . Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2017 . Novel Bypass Attack and BDD-based Tradeoff Analysis Against All Known Logic Locking Attacks . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . August 25, 2017 . 10529 . 189–210 . 10.1007/978-3-319-66787-4_10 . 978-3-319-66786-7 . https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/621.pdf .
27. Book: Xiao, Tehranipoor . Kan, Mark . 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) . BISA: Built-in self-authentication for preventing hardware Trojan insertion . August 16, 2013 . 45–50 . 10.1109/HST.2013.6581564 . 978-1-4799-0601-7 . 13915850 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6581564 .
28. Book: Nahiyan, Xiao, Yang, Jin, Forte, Tehranipoor . Adib, Kan, Kun, Yier, Domenic, Mark . Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Design Automation Conference . AVFSM . August 18, 2016 . 1–6 . 10.1145/2897937.2897992 . 9781450342360 . 11378273 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7544332 .
29. Guin, Shi, Forte, Tehranipoor . Ujjwal, Qihang, Domenic, Mark . FORTIS: A Comprehensive Solution for Establishing Forward Trust for Protecting IPs and ICs . ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems . May 27, 2016 . 21 . 4 . 10.1145/2893183 . 17234477 .
30. Rahman, Rahman, Wang, Tajik, Khalil, Farahmandi, Forte, Asadizanjania, Tehranipoor . M. Tanjidur, M. Sazadur, Huanyu, Shahin, Waleed, Farimah, Domenic, Navid, Mark . Defense-in-Depth: A Recipe for Logic Locking to Prevail . Integration . July 20, 2019 . 72 . 39–57 . 10.1016/j.vlsi.2019.12.007 . 1907.08863 . 198147689 .
31. United States . 8,850,608 . Active . Embedded ring oscillator network for integrated circuit security and threat detection . September 30, 2014 . September 30, 2014 . Mark Tehranipoor, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xuehui Zhang . University of Connecticut .
32. United States . 9,071,428 . Active . Methods and systems for hardware piracy prevention . June 30, 2015 . June 30, 2015 . Mark Tehranipoor, Nicholas Tuzzio . University of Connecticut .
33. United States . 9,218,506 . Active . Methods and Systems for Preventing Hardware Trojan Insertion . December 22, 2015 . December 22, 2015 . Mark Tehranipoor, Kan Xiao . University of Connecticut .
34. United States . 9,785,789 . Active . Method and System for Verification and Authentication Using Optically Encoded QR Codes . October 10, 2017 . October 10, 2017 . Bahram Javidi, Adam Markman, Mark Tehranipoor . University of Connecticut .
35. United States . 10,181,065 . Active . UCR: An Unclonable Environmentally-Sensitive Chipless RFID Tag . January 15, 2019 . January 15, 2019 . Mark Tehranipoor, Haoting Shen, Kun Yang, Domenic Forte . University of Florida Research Foundation Inc .
36. United States . 10,283,459 . Active . Vanishing Via for Hardware IP Protection Against Reverse Engineering . May 7, 2019 . May 7, 2019 . Swarup Bhunia, Haoting Shen, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte, Navid Asadizanjani . University of Florida Research Foundation Inc .
37. United States . 10,181,065 . Active . Unclonable environmentally-sensitive chipless RFID tag with a plurality of slot resonators . January 15, 2019 . January 15, 2019 . Mark Tehranipoor, Haoting Shen, Kun Yang, Domenic Forte . University of Florida Research Foundation Inc .
38. United States . 10,573,605 . Active . Layout-Driven Method to Assess Vulnerability of ICs to Microprobing Attacks . February 25, 2020 . February 25, 2020 . Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte, Navid Asadizanjani, Qihang Shi . University of Connecticut . University of Florida Research Foundation Inc .