NYU Tandon Becomes a Center of Influence in the World of Hardware Security

Since 2002, when NYU Tandon Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ramesh Karri and his students generated the first research on attack-resilient chip architecture, the school has been at the forefront of this vital field, demonstrating before anyone else that integrated circuits’ test and debug ports could be used by hackers; delivering the first set of invited Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) tutorials in hardware security in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America; and presenting the first research paper on split manufacturing, a means of thwarting counterfeiting by an untrusted foundry by dividing a chip’s blueprint into several components and distributing each to a different fabricator; among other such accomplishments.