MESBAH UDDIN

Ph.D. candidate/ Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Engineering

[ muddin6@vols.utk.edu, mesbah.mishuk@gmail.com Ó +18653092356 ½ Knoxville, Tennessee
¯ linkedin.com/in/mesbah-uddin-mishuk/

EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Tennessee (UT)
 Aug 2015 - Present ½ Knoxville, Tennessee
• VLSI circuit design (65nm), Lightweight hardware security
primitive for IoT, Emerging nanotechnology (memristor/RRAM)
Hardware Security Intern
Bosch Research and Technology Center
 May 28, 2019 - Aug 16, 2019 ½ Pittsburgh, USA
• Intrusion detection of an automotive micro-controller via side-
channel power analysis
RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Automotives: During
my internship, I have developed a completely automated side-
channel power based IDS for an automotive microcontroller.
We were able to classify instructions and large functions with
very good accuracy to facilitate the detection of unauthorized
software modification.
• Lightweight security design for IoT (Internet of Things): Since
traditional resource-heavy cryptographic security is not prac-
tical for small edge devices in IoT domain, the objective of this
work is to develop very lightweight but robust hardware secu-
rity primitives for these devices (ICCE’19, GLSVLSI’19).
• Physical Unclonable Computing System (PUCS): The final goal
of this project is to design an unclonable processor, each differ-
ent from any other and secure from any side channel or other
complex attacks and thus robust against piracy, counterfeit and
reverse engineering (HOST’18, MWSCAS’18, TNANO’17).
• Tape-Out: For this project, we have done circuit design and
layout of an 10mm×10mm memristive-CMOS (65nm) chip for
fabrication containing circuits for neuromorphic computing
and hardware security.
• RRAM integrity check: This work involves sneak-path based
tag generation for memristor memory (or ReRAM) as part of a
lightweight integrity verification (AsianHOST’16, TVLSI’18).
• Physical Unclonable Function (PUF): We have designed and
improved a memristor crossbar based PUF. Primary contribu-
tions include: memristor model development (ISVLSI’16), cir-
cuit level design and analysis (JETC’17, SoCC’18) and machine
learning based modeling attack development (TNANO’17).
AWARDS
• Two best paper candidates and one of them got third place at
the GLSVLSI conference, 2019
• Outstanding graduate researcher award at the annual Gonza-
lez EECS Departmental Awards Dinner, Knoxville, Tennessee,
April, 2018
• Received full grant for HOST conference, DC, May 2018
• 9th in Inter-University Math Olympiad, Bangladesh, 2009
• Admission Test Excellence scholarship at BUET, 2008
EDUCATION
Ph.D. and MS (Computer Engineer-
ing)
University of Tennessee (UT)
 2015 - Present ½ Knoxville, TN
• Concentration: Hardware security based on
emerging nanotechnology, VLSI circuit design
B.Sc. (Electrical and Electronics Engi-
neering)
Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology (BUET)
 2008 - 2013 ½ Dhaka, Bangladesh
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Tape-out (ASIC, 65nm CMOS and 30nm
RRAM) experience
• Experience of using Probe Station, Cryogenic
cooling, Parameter Analyzer
• C, C++, Python, Assembly language, MATLAB
• VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog
• Cadence SKILL, Ocean script, Verilog-A
• Digital design (RTL) with FPGA and ASIC (mod-
elSim)
• Machine learning algorithms (Python scikit-
learn, keras, MATALB ML toolbox)
• Web design with PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript
COURSE PROJECTS
• A low power SAR ADC design on a 0.5µm
CMOS technology, Spring‘18
• Design and verification of a RISC-V processor
using systemVerilog, Fall‘17
• FPGA Implementation of an image process-
ing (de-noising) algorithm on a Xilinx Artix-7
board, Fall‘16
• FPGA Implementation of ring-oscillator PUFs
on a Xilinx Artix-7 board, Spring’16
• Development of a smart ‘snake’ game on An-
droid OS platform, Fall’15
• Development of a muti-color line-follower
ROBOT using Arduino board, Jan 2013
• Design and build-up of a prototype for an au-
tomatic and secure toll collection system with
RFID-tag based identification and email-based
notification, Senior year, 2012
• Prototype build-up of a single player and two
player version of a ‘ping-pong’ game using At-
mel ‘ATmega’ microcontroller and dot matrix
displays, Junior year, 2010
SOFTWARE SKILLS SELECTED PUBLICA-
TION
• Cadence Virtuoso, Calibre, Assura, Spectre
• ModelSim/QuestaSim, Synopsys Design Compiler, Encounter Patents, Journals and Book Chapters
• Xilinx FPGA, Vivado, ATmel microcontroller, Arduino, Picoblaze
• M. Uddin, ..., "An improved method for finger-
• Anaconda, Python tensorflow printing an automotive MCU via side channel
• GitLab power analysis". submitted, 2019
• SPICE (PSpice, LTSpice, HSpice) • M. Uddin, ..., "Emerging Nanotechnology based
• Linux OS (Ubuntu), Android Studio Hardware Security for Resource Constrained
IoT Systems," in progress, 2019
• ..., M. Uddin, and ... "A chaotic logic-based phys-
OTHER EXPERIENCE ical unclonable computing system," In Security
Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerg-
Guest Lecturer ing Technologies, Chapter 17. CRC Press, Dec.
2017.
EECS Department, University of Tennessee
• M. Uddin, ..., "Design considerations for mem-
 Spring, 2018 ½ Knoxville, Tennessee ristive crossbar physical unclonable func-
• Preparation of lecture materials and then deliver lectures on tions," JETC, Sep. 2017.
hardware security topics. • M. Uddin, ..., "Robustness analysis of a memris-
tive crossbar PUF against modeling attacks,"
Web developer and programmer (Outsourcing) TNANO, May 2017.
Self-employed
Conferences
 Mar 2013 - Nov 2013 ½ Dhaka, Bangladesh
• M. Uddin, ..., "Towards designing an intrusion
• Website (both frontend and backend) and webpage design, detection system (IDS) for an automotive mi-
web-error debugging, programming problem solving etc. crocontroller using power side channel", in
progress for HOST, 2019
COURSEWORK • .., M. Uddin, ..., "Design for eliminating oper-
ation specific power signatures from digital
• Computer-Aided Design of VLSI Systems logic," GLSVLSI, May 2019.
• Advanced Semiconductor Devices • M. Uddin, ..., "On the Theoretical Analysis of
Memristor based True Random Number Gen-
• Reinforcement Learning in Artificial Intelligence
erator," GLSVLSI, May 2019.
• Secure and Trustworthy Computer Hardware Design
• M. Uddin, ..., "Memristor Crossbar PUF based
• Advanced MOS Concepts and VLSI Design Lightweight Hardware Security for IoT," ICCE,
• Embedded Systems Jan. 2019.
• Advanced Analog Electronics II • M. Uddin and ..., "A Practical Sense Amplifier
• Unconventional Computation Design for Memristive Crossbar Circuits,"
SOCC, Sep. 2018.
• Digital System Design
• ..., M. Uddin and ..., "Design of a Reconfigurable
• Computer Systems Architecture
Chaos Gate with Enhanced Functionality
• Digital Image Processing Space in 65nm CMOS," MWSCAS, Aug. 2018.
• ..., M. Uddin and ..., "Chaos Computing for Miti-
ACTIVITIES AND INTEREST gating Side Channel Attack," HOST, May 2018.
• ..., and M. Uddin, "Exploiting memristive cross-
• IEEE and ACM student member, 2015- Present bar memories as dual-use security primitives
in IoT devices," ISVLSI, Jul. 2017.
• Reviewed papers for MWSCAS, ISVLSI, TNANO, ISCAS, IET,
NANOARCH etc. • M. Uddin,..., "Techniques for improved relia-
bility in memristive crossbar PUF circuits,"
• Panel member for ‘Diverse-Tea’ to discuss about diversity and
ISVLSI, Jul. 2016.
inclusion in teaching, March 2019
• President of Bangladesh Student Association (BSA), Knoxville,
2018 - Present LINKS
• Design, creation and management of official website of SENECA
research group, UT, 2017 - Present • Research homepage: seneca.eecs.utk.edu
• Participated in High School Introduction to Engineering Sys- • Researchgate:
tems for Twelfth Grader (HITES12 ), in 2016-18, UT, Knoxville. researchgate.net/profile/Mesbah_Uddin6
• Ability to repair many mechanical/electrical problems of cars • Google scholar: tinyurl.com/y65ym8cr
• Active participation in tennis, table tennis, badminton, soccer, • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mesbah-uddin-mishuk
swimming, etc.