Ramesh Karri is a Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. He co-founded NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) in 2009, and served as its co-director from 2016-2024. Karri is also co-founder of the NSF-funded Trust-Hub (http://trust-hub.org). For the annual CSAW competition, he founded and continues to contribute to the Embedded Security Challenge (https://csaw.engineering.nyu.edu/esc), which will mark its 17th anniversary in 2024.
With a focus on hardware cybersecurity, Karri’s research and educational endeavors encompass trustworthy ICs, processors, and cyber-physical systems, and more. The author of more than 350 articles in prestigious journals and conferences, he has pursued and published on such topics as security-aware computer-aided design, test, verification, validation, and reliability; nano meets security; hardware security competitions, benchmarks, and metrics; biochip security; and additive manufacturing security. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California at San Diego, and a B.E in ECE from Andhra University.
Karri has served the profession as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Journal of Emerging Computing Technologies and an Associate Editor for several other IEEE and ACM journals. He has had leadership roles in various IEEE conferences, served as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor from 2013-2015, and was on the Executive Committee for Security@DAC from 2014-2017. Additionally, he has been part of multiple program committees, and delivered keynotes on Hardware Security and Trust at events like ESRF, DAC, MICRO.