Hossein Sayadi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science

California State University, Long Beach

Short Bio: Dr. Hossein Sayadi is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax, VA where he conducted his doctoral research on machine learning-based solutions for secure and energy-efficient computer systems. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering with emphasis on Computer Architecture from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran where he worked on fault tolerant computer design and reliability improvement of on-chip memories in embedded systems. He also obtained his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (Computer Hardware) from K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU).

Dr. Sayadi is the director of Intelligent, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computer Systems (iSEC) Lab, in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science of the California State University, Long Beach. He is a two-time recipient of the Provost Doctoral Fellowship from George Mason University. His research projects have been funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and CSULB Office of Research and Sponsored (ORSP) programs. The results of his research have led to numerous peer-reviewed technical papers in prestigious conferences and journals on the subject. Furthermore, Dr. Sayadi is serving as a Guest Editor of two MDPI journals (Sensors and Cryptography) and as organizing committee and Special Sessions Track Chair for ISQED 2022 Conference. Dr. Sayadi has also served as a technical committee member of several international conferences including Design Automation Conference (DAC), Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Int'l. Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), and Int'l. Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC).


Research Opportunity: Multiple Research Assistant (RA) positions are available in my research group for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. Please email me a copy of your CV if you are interested. Motivated graduate and undergraduate students with strong background and experience in at least one of the areas of Machine Learning, Hardware Security, Computer Architecture, and Cybersecurity are encouraged to apply.

Research Interests

  • Cybersecurity

  • Applied Machine Learning

  • Malware Detection

  • Side-Channel Attacks Analysis

  • Adversarial Machine Learning


  • Hardware Security and Trust

  • IoT and Edge Computing

  • Computer Architecture

  • Energy-Efficient Computing

  • Cybersecurity Education

News Highlights:

  • August 2022: Paper on Reinforcemnet Learning for Zero-day Malware Detection got accepted in 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'22).

  • July 2022: Paper on AI-Enabled Hardware Security got accepted in 28th IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS'22).

  • June 2022: Hossein is invited to serve as an Organizing Committee (Special Session Chair) member of 24th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'23).

  • March 2022: Two papers on Hardware-Based Zero-day Malware Detection, and Distributed Logic Encryption got accepted in ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'22).

  • March 2022: Papers on Logic Encryption got accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST'22).

  • February 2022: Awarded NSF Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) Grant (Amount: $195,305) to support my research project proposal on Biomedical Hardware-Assisted Cybersecurity. Thank you for your support, NSF!

  • January 2022: Paper on Machine Learning for Equity-Driven Education got accepted in IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON'22).

  • January 2022: Hossein is invited to serve as a Technical Program Committee member of ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'22).

  • December 2021: Paper on Accelerating AI for Hardware-Assisted Security in Edge got accepted in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'22).

  • December 2021: Two papers on Secure Chacotic Communication, and Cloud Security in Springer Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC'21).

  • November 2021: Paper on Enabling Micro AI for Edge Devices got accepted in IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS).

  • November 2021: Hossein is invited to serve as a Technical Program Committee member of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'22) for the Machine Learning and its Applications (MLA) track.

  • October 2021: Hossein is invited to serve as a Technical Program Committee member of Design Automation Conference (DAC'22).

  • October 2021: Paper on Time-Series Hardware-Based Stealthy Malware Detection got accepted in Cryptography Journal.

  • September 2021: Awarded NSF CISE-MSI Grant (Amount: $297,448) to support our research project on secure and reliable chaotic communication in wearable devices. Thank you NSF!

  • September 2021: Hossein is invited to serve as a Technical Program Committee and Organizing Committee (Special Session Chair) member of ISQED 2022, and Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC'21).

  • August 2021: Paper on Benchmarking for Heterogeneous Architectures got accepted in 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'21).

  • August 2021: Paper on Adversarial Learning in Cloud got accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED'21).

  • April 2021: Awarded 2021 Multidisciplinary Research Grant funded by CSU Long Beach. Thank you CSULB ORSP!

  • April 2021: Paper on Adaptive Hardware-based Malware Detection got accepted in 27th IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS'21).

  • January 2021: Paper on Performance Modeling in Resource Provisioning Systems got accepted in ACM TOMPECS.

  • December 2020: Awarded 2021 College of Engineering RSCA Grant. Thank you CSULB COE!

  • December 2020: Two papers on ML for hardware security (zero-day malware detection, and website fingerprinting attacks) got accepted in ISQED 2021.

  • September 2020: Paper on Applied ML for Zero-day Side-channel Attacks Detection (HybriDG) got accepted in 19th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'20).

  • September 2020: Paper on Multi-phase ML-based Detection and Identification of Zero-day SCAs (Phased-Guard) got accepted in 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'20).

  • July 2020: Paper on Hybrid Cache-Based Side-Channel Attacks Detection and Mitigation (Hybrid-Shield) got accepted in 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD'20).

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Email: hossein.sayadi [at] csulb.edu