News

  • April 2021, I have been invited to serve as guest editor of special issue for Sensor Journal.
  • March 2021, My NSF CRII: SaTC: Physical Side-Channel Attacks in Biometric System has been awarded.
  • February 2021, along with our collaborator at Santa Clara University and Clarkson University, our paper "Flash-Based Security Primitives: Evolution, Challenges and Future Directions" is accepted in the Cryptography journal.
  • January 2021, Dr. Karimian has received the COVID-19 Extramural Funding Incentive Program Award from Vice President for Research & Innovation, San José State University,
  • December 2020, along with our collaborators at UC Merced and University of Colorado Boulder, Our WiP paper "A New Foe in GPUs: Power Side-Channel Attacks on Neural Network " is accepted in ISQED'21.
  • December 2020, Our paper entitled "IoT Checker Using Timing Side-channel and Machine Learning" has been accepted for publication in the Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC), 2020. Congratulations, Surbhi, Kratika, Rasika, and Taghreed.
  • December 2020, Our paper entitled "Leveraging Timing Side-Channel Information and Machine Learning for IoT Security" has been accepted for publication in the 39th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2021. Congratulations, Surbhi, Kratika, Rasika, and Taghreed.
  • October 2020, I will serve as track chair on Hardware and System Security (HSS) track, ISQED 2021.
  • October 2020, Our paper entitled "ECG Biometric Spoofing Using Adversarial Machine Learning" has been accepted for publication in the 39th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2021. Congratulations, Amit.
  • October 2020, Our paper entitled "ECG Biometric Using 2D Deep Convolutional Neural Network" has been accepted for publication in the 39th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2021. Congratulations, Siddartha, and Renato.
  • October 2020, along with our collaborator at Santa Clara University, our paper "LISH: A New Random Number Generator Using ECG Noises" is accepted in the 39th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2021. Congratulations Thomas.
  • October 2020, I have been invited to serve as an Associate Editor of Discover Internet-of-Things (DIoT) Journal.
  • October 2020, I delivered a Tapas Talk about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SJSU with a title of "Are Face Recognition Systems Racist?"
  • August 2020, I have been elected to serve on the faculty search committee of the Computer Engineering Department.
  • August 2020, I have been elected to serve on the School of Engineering research committee
  • August 2020, I will serve on the technical program committee of the Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC).
  • August 2020, I will serve on the technical program committee of the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED).
  • July 2020, I will serve on the technical program committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (ISES).
  • July 2020, along with our collaborators (the University of Arizona and Santa Clara University), our paper "ECG-based Authentication using Timing-Aware Domain-Specific Architecture" is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)/CODES+ISSS, 2020.
  • June 2020, We successfully finished the first Cybersecurity Security Virtual Summer Camp for SJSU undergraduate and graduate students.  Special thanks to our Industry partners, Sunil Cheruvu from Intel, Chris Newman from VMware, Joel Esler from Cisco.
  • June 2020, Our paper entitled "ECG Biometric Authentication: A Comparative Analysis" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access Journal.
  • May 2020, along with our collaborators (Washington University in St. Louis, University of Passau, Santa Clara University), our paper "DRAM-based Authentication using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" is accepted in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (ICEM)
  • May 2020, I received the RSCA Assigned Time Award (Course released until my tenure decision) from Vice President for Research & Innovation.
  • April 2020, along with our collaborators (University of Florida), our paper "ECG Biometric: Spoofing and Countermeasures" is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM).
  • Jan. 2020: I will moderate a session on Hardware Security in ISQED 2020.
  • Jan. 2020: Meeting for SJSU-SKKU global rainbow capstone project. Hosting Prof. Jaehoon Paul Jeong from Sungkyunkwan University and his students!
  • Jan. 2020: Hosting Spike, Director of Science and Technology at IBM, presented some of his exciting work on quantum computing at IBM.
  • Jan. 2020: Dr. Nima Karimian is awarded the University Grants Academy (UGA) program at the Research Foundation in the San Jose State University.
  • Dec. 2019: Renato Silveira's Thesis receives Davidson Student Scholar research Award. Congratulations!
  • Dec. 2019: Janaki Dwadasi joined BioSec lab, welcome to our team.
  • CMPE-127 Microproc Design Class Group Photo, Fall 2019.
  • CMPE-240 Advanced Computer Design Class Group Photo, Fall 2019.
  • Nov. 2019: I will be serving on the external reviewer for the DAC 2020.
  • Nove. 2019: I will be serving on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the ISQED 2020.
  • Oct. 2019: I will be serving on the external reviewer for the IJCB 2020.
  • Aug. 2019: Mohit Ingale joined BioSec lab, welcome to our team.
  • May 2019: My student, Renato Silveira defends his theis. Congratulations! He will be joining the Panasonic.
  • CMPE-127 Microproc Design Class Group Photo, Spring 2019.
  • May 2019: Dr. Nima Karimian receives the travel grant from Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at SJSU.
  • Feb. 2019: Paper on Hardware Obfuscation Attack based Machine Learning accepted at ACM GLSVLSI 2019.
  • Feb 2019: Our paper entitled “How to Generate Robust Keys from Noisy DRAMs?” is accepted in Special Session by GLSVLSI 2019
  • Jan 2019: Four papers on Next generation Biometric have been accepted at SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing.
  • CMPE-127 Microproc Design Class Group Photo, Fall 2018.
  • Department of the Navy visited our Computer Engineering Showcase Lab (9/25), Thanks to Anthony, Cyntrica, and Layvon
  • I will be serving in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the security track for COINS 2018 (9/8/2018)
  • I am moving to San José State University to start a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. (May 2018)
  • IAPR TC4 Best Student Paper Award: On the Vulnerability of ECG Verification to Online Presentation Attacks. (Oct. 2017)
  • Best Technical Paper Award” in 30th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID) & 16th International Conference on Embedded Systems (Jan. 2017).