Text Box: 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-380 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 Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: News: (Apr’09) ONR Young Investigator Award (Aug’08) MIT TR-35 / Rice News (June’08) Microchips with multiple selves unveiled at DAC’08 Slashdot / ACM Technews (Mar’08) Remote IC locking/unlocking (Feb’08) I direct Texas Instruments DSP Leadership University at Rice (Jan’08) Women ExCEL (June’07) EE Times coverage of the “wild and crazy ideas” at DAC’07! (Mar’07) DARPA Young Faculty Award (Dec’06) NSF CAREER 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 / systems. Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: 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