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2/18 - Advantest Gift ($40K): Machine Learning-Based Test
Prof. Makris is awarded $40K by Intel Corporation as a gift towards supporting his research activities in the area of mahine learning-based test.

1/18 - Joining Editorial Board
Prof. Makris has been invited to serve as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) in the area of Hardware Security.

12/17 - NSF Award ($15K): Planning I/UCRC: Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust
Prof. Makris has received a $15K Planning award to establish, along with colleagues from 5 other Universities (Prof. Emmert from Wright State University, Prof. Houmayoun from George Mason University, Prof. Chandy from University of Connecticut, Prof. Lambert from University of Virginia and Prof. Fei from Northeastern University) an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (CHEST).

9/17 - DARPA Award ($635K): ECLIPSE: Efficient Cross-Layered IP Protection SchemE
Prof. Koushanfar from UC San Diego, Prof. Rajendran from Texas A&M, Prof. Sinanoglu from NYU and Prof. Makris have been selected for a $635K award by the Defense Advnaced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop cross-layer approaches for protecting intellectual property (IP) of electronic designs from unauthorized use.

8/17 - Texas Instruments Award ($500K): Advanced Algorithms for THz Sensing and Recognition
Prof. Murat Torlak and Prof. Makris are awarded $500K by Texas Instruments through the UT Dallas Foundational Technology Research Center (FTRC) on Millimeter Wave and High Frequency Microsystems (HFM), which is led by Prof. Ken O, to develop novel approaches for machine learning-based scene analysis and gesture recognition based on THz imagers.

7/17 - Texas Instruments Award ($230K): Adaptive Testing and Trimming in Analog/RF ICs
Prof. Makris is awarded $230K (including a UT Dallas overhead waiver of $80K) by Texas Instruments through the UT Dallas Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) to develop adaptive methods for exploring the trade-off between cost and effectiveness while testing or calibrating analog/RF ICs after production.

5/17 - Ph.D. Defenses: Yu Liu and Ali Ahmadi graduate
Prof. Makris' first UT Dallas Ph.D. students, Yu Liu and Ali Ahmadi, successfully defended their doctoral dissertations and graduated. Yu joined Samsung Research in Plano, TX, as a research staff member, while Ali joined GlobalFounries in Malta, NY, as a member of technical staff.

10/16 - SRC Award ($267K): Post-Silicon Layout Sensitivity Analysis: A Pathway to Defect-Driven Test Quality
Prof. Makris is awarded $267K by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to develop methodologies for analyzing design sensitivity to advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes in order to develop better test, diagnostic and weak-spot detection and prevention solutions.

5/16 - HOST Hardware Demonstration Competition Winner
Prof. Makris'a Ph.D. student Yu Liu wins frist place at the first Hardware Demonstration Competition of the Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Symposium which was held in Washington, D.C. Yu demonstrated the threat of hardware Trojans in wireless cryptographic ICs, as well as the effectiveness of two detection methods, using a custom-designed chip consisting of an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) core and an Ultra- Wide-Band (UWB) transmitter.

5/16 - VTS'17 General Chair
Prof. Makris is selected as the General Chair of the 2017 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'17), the flagship academic event in the area of VLSI Testing, which will be held in Las Vegas, NV, in April of 2017.

4/16 - Best Paper Award: Ali Ahmadi's VTS 2015 paper earns Best Paper Award
Our VTS 2015 paper entitled "Yield Prognosis for Fab-to-Fab Product Migration," authored by Ph.D. student Ali Ahmadi, former postdoc Ke Huang, collaborators from Texas Instruments Amit Nahar, Bob Orr, Michael Pas and John Carulli, and Prof. Makris, has been selected for best paper award.

1/16 - Joining Editorial Board
Prof. Makris has been invited to serve as Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA).

11/15 - CSAW'15 ESC Winners
Prof. Makris' Ph.D. students Mahdi Bidmeshki, Liwei Zhou and Gaurav Rajavendra Reddy won 1st place in the 2015 Embedded Security Challenge (ESC) of the NYU CyberSecurity Awareness Week (CSAW). This year's challenge was to devise an FPGA-based embedded system which can interfere with and rig the result of an election performed through homomorphically encrypted electronic voting. In fact, our team was the only team that successfully compromised the election results to favor a preferred candidate.

9/15 - Joining Editorial Boards
Prof. Makris has been invited to serve as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) and the IEEE Deisgn and Test of Computers Periodical (D&T).

7/15 - NSF/SRC Award ($450K): On-Die Learning: A Pathway to Post-Deployment Robustness & Trustworthiness in Analog/RF ICs
Prof. Makris is awarded $350K by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Computer and Communication Foundations (CCF), Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) Program, as well as $100K by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to develop on-die learning structures that can provide post-deployment robustness and trustworthiness capabilities in analog/RF integrated circuits.

6/15 - NSF Award ($1.13M): Hardware Trojans in Wireless Networks - Risks and Remedies
Prof. Makris and Prof. Aria Nosratinia from the Electrical Engineering department at UT Dallas, are awarded $1.13M by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program, to investigate the risks posed by hardware Trojans in wireless networks and to develope appropriate remedies.

5/15 - VTS'16 General Chair
Prof. Makris is selected as the General Chair of the 2016 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'16), the flagship academic event in the area of VLSI Testing, which will be held in Las Vegas, NV, in April of 2016.

4/15 - New Postdoc: Dr. Angelos Antonopoulos joins TRELA Lab
Dr. Angelos Antonopoulos, who obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, in Chania, Greece, has joined Prof. Makris' TRELA lab as a postodoctoral research associate. Angelos will work closely with the Ph.D. students in our lab and will supervise their research efforts in the areas of Trusted and Reliable Analog/RF Integrated Circuits and Systems.

1/15 - TRELA Lab Expansion
Prof. Makris' TRELA lab has been doubled in size (~900 sq ft) and now comprises two connected rooms, ECSN 4.618 and ECSN 4.624. The newly acquired space has been renovated and fitted with cubicles. Besides bench space, experimentation space, meeting space, and storage space, the lab can now comfortably host 10 Ph.D students, 1 Postdoc, 3 M.S. students and 2 undergraduate students.

9/14 - Professor Makris' Promotion
Prof. Makris has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Electrical Engineering.

8/14 - Postdoc Farewell: Ke Huang starts faculty career
Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Ke Huang, who spent the last 2.5 years in Prof. Makris' TRELA lab, is moving to San Diego State University, where he has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. We thank him for his countless contributions to our group and we wish him all the best as he starts his faculty career.

4/14 - M.S. Thesis Defense: Yichuan Lu and Tianyu Chen Graduate
Yichuan Lu and Tianyu successfully defended their M.S. Theses. Both will continue to work as researchers in Prof. Makris' TRELA lab for the following academic year. Update (6/15): Tianyu Chen has joined Foxconn in Houston, TX, USA as a Test Engineer, while Yichuan Lu has been admitted in the Ph.D. Program at UT Dallas and will pursue his doctoral degree in Prof. Makris' TRELA lab.

11/13 - Intel Gift ($30K): Information-Rich Sample Selection
Prof. Makris is awarded $30K by Intel Corporation as a gift towards supporting his research activities in the are of intelligently selecting sample die from wafers. Such information-rich samples are expected to yield far more accurate spatial and spatiotemporal wafer-level and lot-level prediction models which, in turn, will assist in understanding process variation, predicting yield, and expedite post-silicon validation.

9/13 - NSF Award ($460K): Toward Trusted 3rd-Party Microprocessor Cores: A Proof Carrying Code Approach
Prof. Makris and his former Ph.D. student, Prof. Yier Jin, who is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida, are awarded $460K by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program, to investigate the application of proof-carrying code principles for proving security properties of microprocessor ISAs.

8/13 - SRC Award ($330K): Process Variation Anatomy: A Statistical Nexus between Design, Manufacturing, and Test
Prof. Makris is awarded $330K by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Computer Aided Design & Test Sciences Thrust (CADTS), Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) to develop statistical models that capture process variation and apply these models to improve design efficiency, understand manufacturing yield, and reduce test cost.

6/13 - VTS'14 Program Chair
Prof. Makris is selected once again as the Program Chair of the 2014 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'14), the flagship academic event in the area of VLSI Testing, which will be held in Napa Valley, CA, in April of 2014.

5/13 - Ph.D. Defense: Dzmitry Maliuk Graduates
Prof. Makris' Yale Ph.D. student Dzmitry Maliuk successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Dzmitry will be joining Quantlab Financial LLC, in Houston, TX.

4/13 - NSF/SRC Award ($320K): Failure Resistant Systems
Prof. Makris and Prof. Ma are awarded $320K from the joint NSF/SRC initiative on Failure Resistant Systems for a project entitled "Cross-Layer Intelligent System-Based Adaptive Power Conditioning for Robust and Reliable Mixed-Signal Multi-Core SoCs".

3/13 - DATE'13 Best Paper Award
A paper entitled "Handling Discontinuous Effects in Modeling Spatial Correlation of Wafer-level Analog/RF Tests," co-authored by Prof. Makris, his postdoctoral research associate Dr. Ke Huang, his former Ph.D. student Dr. Nathan Kupp, and their industrial collaborator from Texas Instruments Mr. John Carulli, won the Best Paper Award at the 2013 Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'13) Conference, which was held in Grenoble, France.

10/12 - IEEE TTTC E.J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award
Prof. Makris' Yale Ph.D. student Nathan Kupp, who spent his last year at UT Dallas as a visiting scholar, won the 2012 E.J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award by the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council. Nate first won the semi-final competition which was held at the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) in Maui, HI, last April, and advanced to the final competition which was just held at the IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) in Anaheim, CA, and which he also won.

7/12 - Ph.D. Defense: Yier Jin Graduates
Prof. Makris' Yale Ph.D. student Yier Jin successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Yier will be joining the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, FL as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

6/12 - VTS'13 Program Chair
Prof. Makris is selected as the Program Chair of the 2013 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'13), the flagship academic event in the area of VLSI Testing, which will be held in Berkeley, CA, in May of 2013.

5/12 - Ph.D. Defenses: Nathan Kupp and Mihalis Maniatakos Graduate
Prof. Makris' Yale Ph.D. students Nathan Kupp and Mihalis Maniatakos successfully defended their doctoral dissertations. Nate will be joining Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA, and Mihalis will be joining New York University, Abu-Dhabi campus, in UAE, as an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering.

2/12 - ARO Award ($330K): Trusted Module Acquisition Through Proof-Carrying Hardware IP
Prof. Makris is awarded $330K by the Army Research Office (ARO) to investigate the utility of Proof-Carrying Code principles in developing a framework for trusted third-party intellectual property acquistion in the form of modules described in a hardware description language.

11/11 - CSAW'11 ESC Winners
Prof. Makris' Yale Ph.D. students Yier Jin and Mihalis Maniatakos, who are currently at UT Dallas as visiting scholars, won 1st place in the Embedded Systems - Malicious Processor Design Challenge of the NYU-Poly Cybersecurity Awareness Week (CSAW).

7/11 - TRELA Moves to UT Dallas
Prof. Makris and his 4 Ph.D. students from Yale (Nathan Kupp, Yier Jin, Mihalis Maniatakos, and Dzmitry Maliuk) move to UT Dallas and establish the Trusted and RELiable Architectures (TRELA) Laboratory.