Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice Univ.

Farinaz Koushanfar

Assistant Professor,

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science (CS), Rice University

 

Areas of interests: (i) intellectual property protection, hardware security, (ii) distributed embedded systems, sensor networks, data integrity (iii) statistical modeling and optimization

 

 

 

 

News:

(June’08) Microchips with multiple selves unveiled at DAC’08 Slashdot/acm Technews

(Mar’08) Remote IC locking/unlocking in news

(Feb’08) I direct the Texas Instruments DSP Leadership University at Rice

(Jan’08) I’m the faculty founder/ advisor of Women EXCEL

(June’07) EE Times coverage of the “wild and crazy ideas” (including ours) at DAC’07!

(May’07) Invited young investigator, Lehmann stat symp: “How challenging is the dataset?” 

(May’07) NSF CAREER

(Mar’07) DARPA Young Faculty Award

Our lab has started its operation at Rice University in August 2006. We explore novel statistical modeling and optimization of embedded systems, with a particular interest in data integrity, hardware security, digital rights management, and sensor-based embedded computations and systems.

Education:

· Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of California, Berkeley (2005)

· M.A., Statistics, University of California, Berkeley (2005)

· M.S., Electrical Engineering (thesis jointly done in Computer Science), University of California, Los Angeles (2001)

Post-grad:

· CSL fellowship, Coordinated Science Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005-2006)

 

Address:

ECE Dept., Rice University MS 366

6100 South Main

Houston, TX 77005

Office: 2025 Duncan Hall (DH)

Phone: 713-348-3906, Fax: 713-348-5685

E-mail: [my first name]@rice.edu