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Mehran Mozaffari Kermani

Recently, I have served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS II) and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), and the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)- CPS Security.

I served multiple times as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), (2016-2025) the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS I), (2016-2023), and the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), (2015-2026).

I was the Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing for special issues on cryptographic Engineering and Hardware Security.

I have been part of steering committee for
HOST 2017-2024 (8 years as Publications Chair)
GLSVLSI 2024 (Local Committee Chair)
CCS 2020 (Publications Chair)
ISVLSI 2021 (Finance Chair)

I have been part of technical program committee for
INFOCOM (Workshop TPC member), CCS (Workshop TPC member), VLSI-D, LightSec (multiple times), GLSVLSI (multiple times), ISCAS, ISQED (multiple times), PAINE (multiple times), DATE, FDTC (multiple times), DFT (multiple times), HOST, DAC (multiple times)
and in the past years multiple times for SECRYPT, ISVLSI, RFIDSec, SPACE, and WAIFI.

Biography

Dr. Mehran Mozaffari Kermani is a Professor with Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing at University of South Florida with 140+ publications including 65 IEEE/ACM Transactions journals. He has served for several years as an Associate Editor for a number of Transactions journals editing 700+ manuscripts including IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAS I, IEEE TCAS II, IEEE TII, IEEE TCSVT, and the ACM TECS. He has Guest Edited (Cryptographic Engineering and Hardware Security) special issues for the IEEE TCBB, the IEEE TETC, and the IEEE TDSC. He has served as the technical committee member for a number of related conferences on embedded systems security and reliability including HOST (Publications Chair), CCS (Publications Chair), DAC, DATE, FDTC, GLSVLSI, DFT, ISCAS, ISQED, RFIDSec, LightSec, and WAIFI. He was a recipient of the prestigious Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2011, the Texas Instruments Faculty Award (Douglas Harvey) in 2014, outstanding research award at College of Engineering, USF, in 2018, Nexus Initiative Global Award, in 2019, and USF university-wide Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award in 2021. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the IEEE CS, Member of the IEEE CASS, and Member of the ACM. Moreover, he has been the Director of Graduate Admissions/Programs with the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at University of South Florida (2024-2026), an Associate Director for the Master's in Cybersecurity at USF, and a co-director for the Center for Cryptographic Research (CCR) including the annual outreach "CodeBreakHERS" workshop for high school girls at USF since 2020 till present: 2026.

Dr. Mehran Mozaffari Kermani received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2005, and the M.E.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, in 2007 and 2011, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Arash Reyhani-Masoleh. He joined the Advanced Micro Devices as a senior ASIC/layout designer, integrating sophisticated security/cryptographic capabilities into a single accelerated processing unit. In 2012, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University, New Jersey, as an NSERC post-doctoral research fellow, having the pleasure of working with Prof. Niraj K. Jha. From 2013-2017 he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Currently, he is a Professor with the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at University of South Florida, where he is the PI for the Cryptographic Engineering and Hardware Security Lab.

Note: There will be Ph.D. positions available. Interested applicants are advised to contact me and attach their CV and transcripts to proceed.