November 2024: Paper on Transformers Security got accepted in IEEE Access Journal. 

November 2024: Paper on AI for Secure and Reliable Communication in IoT got accepted in Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE'25). 

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). 

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. 

September 2023: Hossein has been selected as the Chair of the College of Engineering Grade Appeal Committee! 

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). 

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 Run-Time 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 an Organizing Committee (Special Session Chair) member of ISQED 2022. 

September 2021: Hossein is invited to serve as a Technical Program Committee member of International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'22) 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).  

May 2021: Hossein is invited to serve as an Organizing Committee (Special Session Chair) and Technical Program Committee member of Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC'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).   

February 2021: Paper on ML-based SCA Detection on Autonomous Vehicle got accepted in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and System (AICAS'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.  

December 2020: Hossein gave an invited talk on Machine Learning for Hardware Cybersecurity at Morgan State University. 

October 2020: Hossein is invited to serve as a Session Chair in ICCAD'20 (Session: Side-channel Attacks and Defenses). 

October 2020: Hossein will be serving as a Technical Program Committee member of 22nd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'21) and Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC'20) .

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).

August 2020: Hossein will be the Guest Editor of a special issue in the open access journal Cryptography (by MDPI) on Cybersecurity, Cryptography, and Machine Learning.

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). 

July 2020: Paper on securing IoT Networks against Malware Epidemics got accepted in IEEE Access Journal.

June 2020: Paper on Review of Machine Learning-based Countermeasures for Microarchitectural Security got accepted in 63rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS'20) . 

May 2020: ISEC Lab member Abigail Kwan, successfully defended her Thesis and received the Outstanding Computer Engineering Graduate Award. Congratulations Abigail! 

April 2020: Paper on Machine Learning-based Microarchitectural Side-channel Attack Detection got accepted in 26th IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS'20) . 

February 2020: Two papers on Microarchitectural Stealthy Malware Detection and Side-Channel Attack Analysis got accepted in 30th edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'20).

January 2020: Hossein will be serving as a Technical Program Committee member of 30th edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'20). 

November 2019: Three papers on Side-Channel Attacks Analysis, Stealthy Malware Detection, and Adversarial Machine Learning in Cloud got accepted in Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech'20) . 

October 2019: Paper on Processor Side-Channel Attack Mitigation through Randomization got accepted in Design, Automation, and Test in Europe conference (DATE'20). 

August 2019: Hossein has joined the Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. 

July 2019: Hossein will be serving as a Technical Program Committee member of 21st International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'20). 

June 2019: Hossein will be serving as a Technical Program Committee member of 10th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC'19). 

May 2019: Hossein has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Machine Learning-Based Solutions for Secure and Energy-Efficient Computer Systems". 

April 2019: Paper on Machine Learning for Performance Estimation of HLS Design got accepted in International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic & Applications (FPL'19). 

March 2019: Honored to receive the Provost Doctoral Research Fellowship from George Mason University. 

February 2019: Paper on Adversarial Machine Learning for Architecture Security got accepted in Design Automation Conference (DAC'19). 

January 2019: Paper on Security Improvement of Computer Hardware and Architecture got accepted in Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech'19). 

November 2018: Two papers on Hardware-Assisted Malware Detection, and IoT Network Security got accepted in Design, Automation, and Test in Europe conference (DATE'19). 

November 2018: Hossein will be serving as an external reviewer for Design Automation Conference (DAC'19). 

September 2018: Paper on Machine Learning-Based Performance Estimation of Hardware Accelerators got accepted in 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC'19). 

August 2018: Paper on Hardware-Assisted Security got accepted in International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES'18) in Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK). 

July 2018: Paper on Machine Learning-aware Cloud Computing got accepted in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2018 (SoCC'18). 

June 2018: Paper on Compressive Sensing on Storage Data got accepted in IEEE Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors Conference (ASAP'18). 

May 2018: Paper on Customized Hardware Malware Detection for Embedded Devices got accepted in IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE-TrustCom'18). 

March 2018: Paper on Comprehensive Assessment of Machine Learning Techniques for Run-Time Hardware-Based Malware Detection got accepted in ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'18). 

February 2018: Paper on Ensemble Learning for Run-Time Hardware-Based Malware Detection got accepted in Design Automation Conference (DAC'18). 

November 2017: Hossein will be serving as an external reviewer for Design Automation Conference (DAC'18). 

October 2017: Awarded Travel Grant for 35th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'17) in Boston, MA. 

September 2017: Hossein's work on Machine Learning Techniques for Processor Architecture Security got accepted to appear in IBM IEEE CAS/EDS Emerging Technology (ET) Symposium located in IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. 

September 2017: Hossein's ICCD'17 recent paper on Machine Learning Approaches for Composite Cores Scheduling was selected as a runner-up for best paper awards and a top ranked paper for publishing in IEEE TETC. 

September 2017: Paper on Power Conversion Efficiency-aware Scheduling in Heterogeneous Architectures got accepted in 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC'18). 

August 2017: Paper on Machine Learning Approaches for Composite Cores Scheduling got accepted in 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'17). 

August 2017: Paper on Scheduling Multithreaded Applications on Composite Cores got accepted in IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC'17).