Real-time and Embedded Systems

Behrouz Zolfaghari received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran. He did three postdocs at IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Guwahati, University of Guelph (Canada) and Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He then joined Osaka University as an assistant professor. He is working as a visiting assistant professor at Miami University, Ohio, USA. His research area includes VLSI Design, High-Performance Computing, Information-Theoretic Cryptography, Hardware-Oriented Cryptography, AI-Assisted Cryptography and Secure AI.

Khodakhast Bibak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (September 2017 - August 2018) in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before this, Khodakhast was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (May-August 2017) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, from where he also received his PhD (April 2017). He earned a Master of Mathematics degree (April 2013) at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, where he was also a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR). His research interests are Cybersecurity, Applied Cryptography, Quantum Information Science (QIS), Artificial Intelligence, and related areas.