Professor Ramesh Karri, chair of NYU Tandon’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), has been named to the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes Karri’s broad impact on the field of hardware security. In announcing the award, Jim Plusquellic, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico and a co-founder of the Hall of Fame, cited Karri for his “seminal work in the field of logic obfuscation, logic encryption and logic locking, and for significant contributions in the fields of hardware Trojans and secure manufacturing.” 

The induction in June 2025 placed Karri alongside such distinguished researchers as MIT’s Srini Devadas, inventor of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)-based authentication, and Mark Tehranipoor, an IEEE and ACM Fellow known for his foundational hardware security research.

“Ramesh’s induction into the IEEE HOST Hall of Fame reflects his significant contributions to hardware cybersecurity and his work in developing the academic and research infrastructure that has supported this important field,” stated Juan de Pablo, NYU’s Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology and Executive Dean of Tandon. “His leadership at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and ECE shows his commitment to extending beyond his own research to engage the broader community of scholars and practitioners working to secure our digital infrastructure.”