Hossein Sayadi

Hossein Sayadi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Associate Chair

CSU STEM-NET Faculty Fellow

Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science

California State University, Long Beach

Short Bio: Dr. Hossein Sayadi is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and the Associate Chair of the 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), where he was a two-time recipient of the Provost Doctoral Fellowship and conducted his doctoral research on machine learning-based solutions for secure and energy-efficient computer systems. He also received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering with emphasis on Computer Architecture from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran and obtained his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (Computer Hardware) from K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU).

Dr. Sayadi is a recipient of the 2024-25 CSU STEM-NET Faculty Fellow research award, representing CSULB in the California State University’s STEM-NET Program. He is the director of Intelligent, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computer Systems (iSEC) Lab at CSULB, where he leads a diverse team of students in research spanning emerging topics such as hardware security and trust, AI and machine learning, cybersecurity, computer architecture, cyber-physical systems, and computer science education. His research work is supported by multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, and several research awards from CSULB’s Office of Research and Economic Development and the CSU Chancellor’s Office. The results of his research have led to numerous peer-reviewed technical papers in prestigious conferences and journals on the subject. Dr. Sayadi has served as an organizing member and program committee member for various international conferences, including serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair for the 2024 and 2025 editions of the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED).

Research Opportunity: Multiple Research Assistant (RA) positions are available in my research group for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. 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:

January 2025: Paper on ML-based PC Fingerprinting via Power Analysis got accepted in 76th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'25).
November 2024: Paper on AI for Secure Communication in IoT got accepted in Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE'25).
November 2024: Paper on Transformers Security got accepted in IEEE Access Journal.
July 2024: Paper on Evaluating LLMs for Cybersecurity Education got accepted in IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE'24).
June 2024: Hossein has been promoted to Associate Chair of the CECS Department at CSULB.
May 2024: Hossein will continue to serve as an Organizing Committee (Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair and Special Sessions Chair) of International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'25).
April 2024: Hossein has been awarded the prestigious CSU STEM-NET Faculty Fellow Award!
March 2024: Paper on Enhancing robustness of Transformers got accepted in 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'24).
February 2024: Two papers on AI-enabled Hardware Security and LLM Fingerprinting got accepted in Design Automation Conference (DAC'24).
March 2024: Paper on Image-based Hardware Malware Detection got accepted in the Journal of Hardware and Systems Security.
February 2024: Two papers on Hardware-Based Malware Detection and LLMs Fingerprinting got accepted in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'24).
January 2024: Paper on Reliability Analysis of ML Models for IDS got accepted in 75th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'24).
January 2024: Paper on Analyzing Role of ChatGPT for CS Education got accepted in IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON'24).
December 2023: Paper on Obfuscated Malware Detection got accepted in Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE'24).
November 2023: Paper on ML in Chaos-Based Encryption got accepted in IEEE Access Journal.
August 2023: Paper on Biomedical Cybersecurity got accepted in IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS'23).
July 2023: Two papers on AI for Education got accepted in IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE'23).
June 2023: Papers on Adversarial attacks against machine learning-based resource provisioning systems got accepted in IEEE Micro.
May 2023: Hossein is invited to serve as an Organizing Committee (Technical Program Committee Chair) of International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'24).
April 2023: Awarded 2023 Multidisciplinary Research Grant funded by CSU Long Beach. Thank you CSULB ORED!
February 2023: Paper on ML for Personalized Education 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE'23).
February 2023: Two papers on IoMT Malware Detection and Chaos-based Communication got accepted in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'23).
August 2022: Paper on Reinforcement 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).
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).
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).
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!