Hardware IP Protection

The rapid expansion of human dependency on electronic systems has transformed the semiconductor industry to afford innovative products with faster production time and significant cost reduction. In the course of accommodating the aforementioned requirements, the supply chain of semiconductor manufacturing process has integrated various foreign entities focusing on individual production steps. However, this has led to a proliferation of theft, reverse engineering, and piracy of hardware intellectual property (IP). Unlike the software industry, semiconductor supply chain cannot benefit from traditional cryptographic solutions due to the requirement of white-box accessibility to the hardware IP. My research in this area involves developing hardware obfuscation solutions and secure supply chain frameworks to protect against these attacks.