A computer engineer and expert witness with more than 10 years of experience, this professional specializes in computer architecture, embedded systems, circuit design, and very-large-scale integration computer-aided design. He has prior expert witness experience providing technical consultation and deposition testimony. His technical and research background encompasses processor architecture, memory systems, hardware acceleration, integrated-circuit design, low-power computing, and computer-system performance, reliability, and security.

His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, followed by postdoctoral training in computer science and engineering. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a named inventor on an issued United States patent involving vanishable logic developed to enhance circuit security. His patent activity also includes workload scheduling for multicore systems with under-provisioned power delivery.

His academic and research leadership includes service as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and direction of the Accelerated, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computing Laboratory. His technical work addresses next-generation three-dimensional heterogeneous multicore architectures, hybrid SRAM and nonvolatile-memory hierarchies, domain-specific accelerators, embedded and Internet of Things systems, FPGA-based computing, and processor and data-center power and thermal management. Additional areas of specialization include hardware cybersecurity, side-channel attacks and defenses, hardware Trojan detection, logic locking, circuit obfuscation, reverse-engineering prevention, machine-learning acceleration, hardware-assisted malware detection, and secure integrated-circuit design.

Professional authority is further reflected in his service as principal investigator and site director for the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust, participation on a Commonwealth of Virginia cybersecurity research and technology-commercialization advisory group, and leadership roles involving VLSI, computer architecture, hardware security, and computer-aided design publications and conferences. He has led government- and industry-supported projects involving secure integrated circuits, automotive embedded systems, Internet of Things supply-chain security, malware detection, low-power computing, emerging memory technologies, machine-learning acceleration, and computer-aided design algorithms.