Farinaz Koushanfar

Siavouche Nemat-Nasser Endowed Chair and Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCSD

Founding Co-Director

Center for Machine-Intelligence, Computing and Security (MICS)

Other Center Affiliations

NSF TILOS AI Institute (Co-Lead: AI for Chips), NSF Trust-Hub (Co-PI)

Member of the Editorial Board

The Proceedings of the IEEE

Research

AI-based Computer Aided Design, AI-driven optimization,  Secure and efficient computing, Co-optimization and customization of massive AI models, Robust safe AI, Hardware/system security, Supply chain management and intellectual property (IP) protection (Watermarking, tracing, attestation), Cryptographically secure privacy-preserving computing (a.k.a., secure multi-party computation or MPC), Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs)

Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and Kavli Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 

US Presidential Awardee (PECASE), MIT Technology Review TR-35