Mark M. Tehranipoor | Source | Chair, ECE Department at University of Florida

Mark M. Tehranipoor is currently the Sachio Semmoto Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of Florida. He served as the founding Director for Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research from 2015-2022, and currently serving as Director for Edaptive Computing Inc. Transition Center (ECI-TC), Co-director for the AFOSR/AFRL Center of Excellence on Enabling Cyber Defense in Analog and Mixed Signal Domain (CYAN), and Co-Director for the National Microelectronic Security Training Center (MEST). He also served as the Associate Chair for Research and Strategic Initiatives for the ECE Department from 2017-2019 and the Program Director of Cybersecurity in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering from 2019-2022. His current research projects include hardware security and trust, electronics supply chain security, IoT security, and reliable and testable VLSI design. Dr. Tehranipoor has published numerous journal articles and refereed conference papers and has delivered 230+ invited talks and keynote addresses. In addition, he has 22 patents issued, 28 pending invention disclosures, and has published 16 books, two of which are textbooks. His projects have been sponsored by 50+ companies and Government agencies.

Dr. Tehranipoor is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a Fellow of AAIA, a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society, and a Member of ACM SIGDA. He is also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering (CASE). He is a recipient of 18 best paper awards and nominations, such as the 2009 NSF CAREER award, the 2014 AFOSR MURI award on Nanoscale Security and the 2008 IEEE Computer Society (CS) Meritorious Service award. Additionally, he serves on the program committee of more than a dozen leading conferences and workshops.

Over the years, he has led a number of major initiatives in the domain of microelectronics security and trust. He led the development of Trust-Hub, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). He served as associate Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for IEEE Design and Test of Computers from 2012-2014. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Design and Test of Computers, JETTA, Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE), ACM Transactions for Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), IEEE Transactions on Computers, and IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI). He has served as an IEEE Distinguished Speaker and an ACM Distinguished Speaker from 2010-2013. Further, he served as an ambassador of cybersecurity for IEEE from 2016 to 2020.