Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science (CS)
Associate Director, Center for Trusted, Accelerated, and Secure Computing & Communications (C-TASC)
Director, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning, and Security (CAMLsec) Lab
Khaled N. Khasawneh is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. His research spans Computer Architecture, Security, and Machine Learning. His current research focuses on hardware support for security, microarchitecture security, machine learning security and privacy, and malware detection.
His research has been recognized as Nature Electronics Research Highlight in 2018, received the Best Paper Award at WOOT in 2018, and was selected as a Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security in 2021.
He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) working with Professor Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. He earned his MS in Computer Science at Binghamton University and BS in Computer Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST).
I am always looking for talented self-motivated students. If you are interested to work with me on cutting edge research in systems security, please send me an email or stop by my office!
Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security, 2021
International Student Recognition Award, University of California, Riverside, 2019
Best paper award at WOOT, 2018
Dissertation Year Program award, University of California, Riverside, 2018-2019
Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside, 2014-2016
Dean's Honor List, Computer & Information Technology College, Jordan University of Science & Technology, 2009
ICCD: 2022, 2023
ASPLOS: 2024
SEED: 2024
PACT: 2024, 2025
NDSS: 2026
MICRO: 2020 (ERC), 2021 (ERC), 2022 (TPC), 2025
ASPLOS: 2021 (ERC)
SEED: 2021, 2022
ICCD: 2020, 2021
HASP: 2020, 2023
GLSVLSI: 2020, 2023
Top Picks in Hardware Security: 2023
Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
Computers & Security (COSE)
Journal of Computer Security (JCS)
IET Information Security
EAI Transactions
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST)
Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), 2019