heldib@rice.edu

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University, working with Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri on the PLYNY project. I received a Ph.D.  from Virginia Tech in Computer Engineering. I received the FMCAD best paper award in 2013.  My current research interests include program synthesis and repair utilizing big data and machine learning, with focus on security. During my Ph.D. I have developed several practically scalable security tools for verification and synthesis of cryptographic attacks and attack countermeasures, and other tools for synthesis of optimal embedded control software. 

• Program repair/synthesis
• Software/Hardware security 
• Big data
• Deep learning
• Software/Hardware verification and testing
• Cryptography power side-channel and fault-based attacks and countermeasures
• Formal methods