Rate My Professor Ilia Polian

Polian's research interests include hardware-oriented security such as fault-injection attacks, hardware Trojans, physical unclonable functions, and side-channel countermeasures; robustness and test of nano- and microelectronic circuits involving defect modeling, power-aware test, and reliability; emerging architectures like stochastic circuits for neuromorphic applications and memristive components; and quantum computing encompassing topological error correction, NISQ devices, and variational quantum algorithms. He has received the Best Paper Award at IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS'14) for "Variation-Aware Deterministic ATPG", Best Paper Award (Test category) at IEEE DDECS 2011, Wolfgang-Gentner Award in 2004, and was European Champion and Vice World Champion at ACM ICPC 1999. An IEEE Senior Member since 2007, he has guest-edited special issues on hardware security for it – Information Technology (2019), Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (2016), and IET Computers & Digital Techniques (2014). Key publications comprise "Hardware-efficient preparation of architecture-specific graph states on near-term quantum computers" (Scientific Reports, 2025), "Synergistic Dynamical Decoupling and Circuit Design for Enhanced Algorithm Performance on Near-Term Quantum Devices" (Entropy, 2024), "Algorithm-oriented qubit mapping for variational quantum algorithms" (Physical Review Applied, 2025), "Automatic construction of fault attacks on cryptographic hardware implementations" (2019), and "Hardware-oriented Algebraic Fault Attack Framework with Multiple Fault Injection Support" (2019).