Patrick Schaumont

Bio

Patrick Schaumont is a Dean's Excellence Professor and Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Previously, he was a staff researcher at IMEC in Belgium, and a faculty member at Virginia Tech. He has also been a visiting researcher at NICT in Japan and the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 in France, and a Radboud Excellence Initiative Visiting Faculty member at Radboud University, Netherlands. His research focuses on secure, efficient, and real-time embedded computing systems. Schaumont has co-chaired leading conferences in cryptographic and secure engineering, including CHES, HOST, ASHES, and FDTC. He serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. In 2007, he received the NSF CAREER award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Professional Experience

Professor, ECE Department,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
2020 - now
Radboud Excellence Initiative Visiting Professor, CS Department,
Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
2022 - 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