Director
Ahmad Patooghy, (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011. Since August 2021, he has been with the Department of Computer Systems Technology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, leading the Intelligent Cyber Systems and Architectures Laboratory. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings. He has been a reviewer and PC member for various IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and Springer journals and conferences. He has also served as a panelist for the National Science Foundation for reviewing grant proposals. His research interests include the security and reliability of machine learning applications and accelerators, hardware security in IoT and cyber-physical systems, and hardware design for machine learning acceleration. Dr. Patooghy is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and a Member of the ACM.
Current and Affiliate Students
Mahdi Hasanzadeh
PhD Candidate
Tia Pope
PhD Candidate
Mehdi Elahi
PhD Student
Bedeabasi John
PhD Student
Jennifer Eriagbondia
PhD Student
Chuka Maduji
Graduate Researcher
Chauncey Barnes
Master Student
Peyman Poursani
Master Student
Collaborators
Dr. Evelyn Sowells-Boone
North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Peter Jamison
Miami University
Dr. Olcay Kursun
Auburn University at Montgomery
Dr. Cynthia Sturtun
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Hameed Badawy
New Mexico State University
Dr. Ali AlQahtani
Prince Sultan University
Dr. Mahdi Fazeli
Halmstad University, Sweden
Dr. Kasem Khalil
University of Mississippi
Dr. Daniel Limbrick
North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Amirali Baniasadi
University of Victoria
Dr. Mahmoud Mahmoud
North Carolina A&T State University
Dr. Hossein Sarrafzadeh
North Carolina A&T State University
Former Students
Danavon Harris
Undergraduate Student
Amin Sarihi
Defended his PhD in New Mexico State University. He is now a Senior Performance Engineer at MIPS
Sreekar Reddy Karnati
Master Student