Prospective Students

I am looking for highly motivated graduate students. If you are interested, please send me a pdf copy of your detailed resume with mentioning English scores. My research interest includes Hardware Security and Trust, Supply Chain Security, Cybersecurity, and VLSI Design & Test. I will encourage you to contact me if your profile matches with my research interests.

Current Students

  • Ph.D. Students

    • Zakia Tamanna

    B.S., Bangladesh University of Professionals

    M.S., University Of Minnesota-Duluth


    Aritri Saha

    B.Tech., National Institute of Technology, Rourkela


    Nathan Harrison
    [Co-advising with Samuel Mulder, CSSE]

    B.S., Auburn University


    Blessing Iyobosa Airehenbuwa

    B.Eng, University of Benin, Nigeria

    M.Sc., Tuskegee University, Alabama


    Mounika Ghanta

    B.Tech., Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management

    M.S., Auburn University


    Anish Mall

    B.E., Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani



  • Master's Students

    • James Steinman
    Electronics Engineer, Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center

    B.S., The University of Alabama


    Griffin Smith
    B.S., Auburn University


    Joshua Paulsen
    B.S., Auburn University


    Cooper Medved
    B.S., Mississippi State University



  • Undergraduate Students

    • Andre Nava

    Mia Haefner

Former Students

  • Ph.D. Students

    • Yadi Zhong, 2024
    Assistant Professor, Auburn University

    Google Scholar

    Yuqiao Zhang, 2022
    MaxLinear

    Google Scholar

    Wendong Wang (Co-advised with Adit Singh), 2022

    Google Scholar


    Pinchen Cui (Co-advised with David Umpress, CSSE), 2020

    Google Scholar


    Ziqi Zhou, 2021
    Cadence

    Google Scholar



  • Master's Students

    • Tejaswini Koppula, 2025
    [TBD]


    Gaines Odom, 2025
    Leidos


    Colton Bailey, 2024
    Analog Devices


    Christopher McGill, 2023
    Parsons


    Josh Hovanes, 2023
    Avion Solutions, Inc.


    Caleb Mccarley, 2023
    Parsons


    Pratiksha Mittal, 2021
    DPSCD


    Ayush Jain, 2020
    Intel


    Jubayer Mahmod, 2019
    Lucid Motors


    Prattay Chowdhury, 2019
    Qualcomm




  • Undergraduate Students Mentored
    • 2025

      • Griffin Smith

      Joshua Paulsen

    • 2024

      • Andrew Pruett

    • 2023

      • Gaines Odom

      Amaar Ebrahim

    • 2021

      • Cyril Adjei

      Mukarram Faridi

      Paschal Onyeka

      Umar Farouk

      Craig Manes

    • 2020

      • Alex Bonner

      Stephen Fortner

      Yadi Zhong

      William Champion

      Holden Covington

    • 2019

      • Julie Dixon

      Benjamin Cyr