Program

Time	Event	Speakers/Panelists
8:50 – 9:00	Welcoming Remarks	Farimah Farahmandi Assistant Professor, FICS Associate Director, University of Florida
9:00 – 9:30	Keynote Address 1	Jon Azen Senior Director, Qualcomm Title: "TBD"
9:30 – 9:50	Invited Talk	Qiaoyan Yu Professor, University of New Hampshire Title: "Mitigating Voltage-Drop Attacks through Intelligent On-Chip Sensor Utilization"
9:50 – 10:10	Invited Talk	Amitabh Das Principal Security Hardware Architect, AMD Title: "Pre-simulation based Side-channel Analysis"
10:10 – 10:30	Invited Talk	Soheil Salehi Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Title: "Defense Against the Dark Arts: Hardware Design and Security in the Age of GenAI"
10:30 – 11:00		BREAK
11:00 – 11:30	Keynote Address 2	Norman Chang Chief Technologist, Ansys Title: "Harnessing ML and Agentic AI for Hardware Security Simulation in 3D Heterogeneous Integration"
11:30 – 11:50	Invited Talk	Hadi Kamali Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida Title: "Can a Language Model Be Your Hardware Security Co-Designer and Verifier?"
11:50 – 12:10	Invited Talk	Avinash Ayalasomayajula Senior Research and Development Engineer, Caspia Technologies Title: "LLM Assisted SoC Security Verification"
12:10 – 12:30	Invited Talk	Aydin Aysu Associate Professor, North Carolina State University President & Founder, mitrhilAI Corp. Title: "Deus Ex LLMs: AI vs Humans in Post-Quantum Cryptographic Hardware Code Generation"
12:30 – 13:30		LUNCH BREAK
13:30 – 14:10	Hardware Demonstrations	by: Students Title: "LLM for Hardware Security Verification Demo"
14:10 – 14:30	Invited Talk	Reza Azarderakhsh Professor, Florida Atlantic University CEO & Founder, PQSecure Technologies Title: "Hardware Security Challenges in Post-Quantum Cryptography: Insights from Caliptra and Adam’s Bridge"
14:30 – 15:00	Keynote Address 3	Speaker: Chris Giles Director of Product Management: Static & Formal, Siemens Title: "Assurance in a Secure Future: Automating Hardware Development for Robust Security"
15:00 - 15:30		BREAK
15:30 – 16:30	Panel Discussion: GenAI for Security OR Security for GenAI? Organizer & Moderator: Mark Tehranipoor Sachio Semmoto Chair of the ECE Department, University of Florida	Panelists: - Erik Seligman – Sr. Product Engineering Architect at Cadence Design Systems - Mike Borza – Scientist at Synopsys - Siddharth Garg – Associate Professor at New York University - Sazadur Rahman – Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida
16:30 – 17:00	Closing Thoughts by an Industry Leader	Jason Fung Senior Director, Offensive Security Research & Academic Research Engagement, Intel Corporation Title: "Why My 2.5-Year-Old Struggles with H-D-L: Navigating ChatGPT’s Dysgraphia in Secure Hardware Design"
17:00 – 17:10	Closing Remarks	Mark Tehranipoor Sachio Semmoto Chair of the ECE Department, University of Florida