My Research is primarily focused on the following topics:
Semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) Cores Protection against IP piracy/cloning, counterfeiting and Reverse Engineering Attacks
Hardware IP watermarking/steganography, Logic Locking and Hardware Obfuscation
Security Aware High Level Synthesis (HLS)
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) for hardware security
Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) for VLSI
Floating point hardware architecture
Biometric Fingerprinting for IP Core Protection
IP Core Steganography against IP counterfeiting and cloning threats
Structural Obfuscation to Secure against RE and Hardware TROJAN insertion
ANTI-Removal logic for robust functional obfuscation
DSP Core LOCKING cell to prevent IP piracy
Handwritten Signature to authenticate IP cores
