Patrick Schaumont

Bio

Patrick Schaumont is a Dean's Excellence Professor and Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI. Previously he was a staff researcher at IMEC, Belgium and a faculty member at Virginia Tech. He was a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Information and Telecommunications Technology (NICT), Japan. He was a visiting researcher at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 in Paris, France. He was a Radboud Excellence Initiative Visiting Faculty with Radboud University, Netherlands. His research interests are in design and design methods of secure, efficient and real-time embedded computing systems. He served as program co-chair for several conferences in cryptographic and secure engineering, including CHES, HOST, ASHES, and FDTC. He serves as Associate Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007.

Professional Experience

Professor, ECE Department,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
2020 - now
Visiting Professor, CS Department,
Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
2020 - 2024
Adjunct Professor, Bradley Department of ECE,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2020 - 2021
Professor, Bradley Department of ECE,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2016 - 2019
Visiting Researcher,
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, FR.
2018
Associate Professor with tenure, Bradley Department of ECE,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2011 - 2016
Visiting Researcher,
NICT, Koganei, Tokyo, JP.
2014 - 2015
Director, Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA),
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2012 - 2014
Assistant Professor, Bradley Department of ECE,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2005 - 2011
Post-doctoral Researcher, EE Department,
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
2005
Graduate Student Researcher, EE Department,
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
2001 - 2004
Staff Researcher,
Inter-university Micro-electronics Center, Leuven, Belgium.
1992 - 2001
Military Service,
Belgian Armed Forces, Belgium.
1991
Instrumentation Engineer,
Ghent University, Belgium.
1989 - 1990