Soheil Salehi

Biography

Dr. Soheil Salehi is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arizona, a Fellow of the Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM), and the Director of the Privacy-preserving, Intelligent, and Secure Computing (PRISM) Lab. Before joining the University of Arizona, he served as an NSF-Sponsored Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) at the University of California, Davis. His research spans hardware and AI-enabled security in IoT, generative AI for EDA, secure hardware design and firmware security, neuromorphic and in-memory computing, and adaptive and reconfigurable architectures. Dr. Salehi received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida. He has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications, 3 book chapters, and has served on numerous high-impact program committees, including DAC, ICCAD, NDSS, and USENIX Security. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an ACM member, and his research has received funding from the NSF, the U.S. Army, major University of Arizona research initiatives, and industry sponsors. Dr. Salehi is also the founder of the AI Hardware Design League (AI-HDL), an impactful national and international program focused on developing the next-generation semiconductor, hardware security, and AI workforce.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States
• Energy-Efficient Signal Conversion and In-Memory Computing using Emerging Spin-based Devices
• M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
• University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States
• Towards Energy-Efficient and Reliable Computing: From Highly-Scaled CMOS Devices to Resistive Memories
• B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, Islamic Republic of
• Design and implementation of Embedded Systems for Autonomous Vehicles using Wireless Sensor Networks