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: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box:

News:

(Sep’09) CANDE (Computer-Aided Network DEsign) Oct 29-31, Monterey, CA

(Aug’09) IEEE D&T, Special Issue on Verifying Physical Trustworthiness of Integrated Circuits and Systems

(Apr’09) ONR Young Investigator Award

(Jan’09) IEEE Trans. Of VLSI, AE

(Aug’08) MIT TR-35 / Rice News

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

(Mar’08) Remote IC locking/unlocking

(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 design and optimization of robust and secure systems, with a particular interest in hardware-based security, digital rights management, adaptive designs, emerging nano technologies, and sensor-based embedded computations / systems.

Farinaz Koushanfar

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Eng (ECE) and Computer Science (CS);

Director, Texas Instruments DSP Leadership;

Rice University

Areas of interests: (i) Hardware-based system security; (ii)  Customizable and adaptive system design; (iii) Design for emerging systems and technologies;