Rate My Professor Ozgur Sinanoglu

Ozgur Sinanoglu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. He earned dual BS degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey, in 1999, an MS in 2001, and a PhD in 2004, both in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. During his doctoral studies, he received the IBM PhD Fellowship award twice. Sinanoglu has industry experience with Texas Instruments, IBM, and Qualcomm. Since joining NYU Abu Dhabi in 2010 as an assistant professor, he advanced to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2018. He serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Development, managing director of the Center for Cyber Security, and director of the Design-for-Excellence (DFx) Lab.

Professor Sinanoglu’s research interests encompass design-for-test, design-for-security, and design-for-trust methodologies for VLSI circuits, with a particular emphasis on hardware security and trust. He has published around 300 papers in conferences and journals and holds 20 US patents (issued and pending). He has presented approximately two dozen tutorials on hardware security and trust at leading conferences such as DAC, DATE, ITC, VTS, ETS, ICCD, and ISQED. Sinanoglu has held roles including general/program chair and TPC member in about 20 conferences, chaired and hosted ACM ASIACCS 2017 in Abu Dhabi, and served as (guest) associate editor for journals including IEEE TIFS, IEEE TETC, IEEE TCAD, ACM JETC, Elsevier MEJ, JETTA, and IET CDT. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense (Army Research Office and DARPA), Intel Corporation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, and Mubadala Technology. Among his honors are best paper awards at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2011 and ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2013, the inaugural NYUAD Distinguished Research Award in 2021, induction into the Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists in the UAE in 2021, and IEEE Fellowship.