Patrick Schaumont

Bio

Patrick Schaumont is a Dean's Excellence Professor and Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2004 and the MS degree in Computer Science from Ghent University in 1990. He was a staff researcher at IMEC, Belgium from 1992 to 2000. He was a graduate student and postdoc at UCLA from 2001 to 2005. He was a faculty member with Virginia Tech from 2005 to 2019. He joined WPI in 2020. 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 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 - now
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

Awards and Honors

Radboud Excellence Initiative Visiting Professor, Radboud University (NL)	2020
Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech	2017
Dean’s Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech	2013
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech	2012
Best Paper Award at International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)	2011
Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech	2007
National Science Foundation CAREER Award	2007
Design Automation Conference Student Design Contest, First Place	2002

Scholarship

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Service

Society Memberships

International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), Member	2007 - present
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member	2006 - present
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member	1997 - 2006

Journal Editor

IEEE Trans. Emerging Topics in Computing, Associate Editor	2019 - present
IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, Associate Editor	2019 - present
ACM Trans. Embedded Computing Systems, Associate Editor	2013 - 2020
Springer J. Cryptographic Engineering, Associate Editor	2010 - present
IEEE Trans. Computers, Topical Editor	2017 - 2018
IEEE Trans. Computers, Associate Editor	2012 - 2017
ACM Trans. Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Associate Editor	2012 - 2015
Hindawi International J. Reconfigurable Computing, Associate Editor	2011 - 2013
Springer International Journal of Parallel Programming Special Issue on Side-channel and Fault Analysis of High Performance Computing Platforms	2018
IEEE Trans. Computers, Guest Editor Special Issue on Secure Computer Architectures	2016
ACM Trans. Embedded Computing Systems, Guest Editor Special Issue on Embedded Platforms for Cryptography in the Coming Decade	2014
Springer J. Cryptographic Engineering, Guest Editor Special Issue on CHES 2012	2013
IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Guest Editor, Special Issue on MEMOCODE 2009	2010
ACM Trans. Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Guest Editor Special Issue on Security in Reconfigurable Computing	2009
IEEE Design and Test Magazine, Guest Editor Special Issue on Secure Embedded Computing	2007

Steering Committee

IACR Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)	2012 - 2018
Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy (RFIDSEC)	2013 - 2018

Program Committee

2023      IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)      IACR International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO)      EDAA Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)      IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

2022      Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)      Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS)      IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)      ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)      EDAA Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)      IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)

2021      Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)      Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES)      EDAA Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)      IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)      IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)

2020      Program Co-Chair Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES)      Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)      Int. W. Construction Side-channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE)      ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)      EDAA Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)      IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)      Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security (TopPicksHES)

2019      Program Co-Chair Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES)      Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)      General Co-Chair IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)      Int. W. Construction Side-channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE)      Co-Organizer Dagstuhl Seminar 19301 on Secure Composition for Hardware Systems      EDAA Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)      IEEE Workshop on Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis in Cryptography (FDTC)      Track Co-Chair ACM/SIGDA Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)      IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)      IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)      IEEE Secure Development Conference (SECDEV)

Before 2019      2018 Co-Chair NSF Workshop on Side and Covert Channels in Computing Systems (SCCS)      2017 Program Co-Chair IEEE Workshop on Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis in Cryptography (FDTC)      2016 Co-Organizer Dagstuhl Seminar 16342 on Foundations of Secure Scaling      2016 Track Chair Hardware Security IEEE International Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)      2015 Program Co-Chair Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy (RFIDSEC)      2014-2015 Subcom Chair Secure Emb. Syst. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)      2014 Co-organizer NII Shonan Meeting on Design Methods for Secure Hardware      2014 Program Co-Chair Int. Conf. on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering (SPACE)      2012-2014 Topic Co-Chair Secure Systems EDAA Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)      2012 Program Co-Chair IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)      2011 Program Chair IEEE Int. Symp. on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)      2010 Program Co-Chair ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS)      2009 Program Co-Chair IEEE Int. Conf. on Formal Methods for Codesign (MEMOCODE)      2009, 2010 Track Co-chair International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing (RECONFIG)      ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)      ACM International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC)      ACM International Workshop on Trustworthy Embedded Devices (TrustED)      ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS)      ACM Workshop on Hardware and Architecture Support for Security and Privacy (HASP)      ACM/IEEE Asia and South-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)      ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)      Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES)      ECRYPT Symmetric Key Encryption Workshop (SKEW)      EDAA Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)      IACR International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO)      IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)      IEEE Int. High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT)      IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)      IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)      IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)      IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES)      IEEE Secure Development Conference (SECDEV)      IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)      IEICE International Workshop on Security (IWSEC)      IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration      Int. W. Construction Side-channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE)      International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing (RECONFIG)      International Conference on VLSI Design      Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS)      USENIX Security Symposium      Workshop on RFID and IoT Security (RFIDsec)      Workshop on Secure Hardware and Security Evaluation (TRUDEVICE)      Workshop on Security for Embedded and Mobile Systems (SEMS)