He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UCLA (2004). He has been a Researcher at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium from 1992 to 2001. His research interests include design of, and design methodologies for, secure embedded systems. He has served in international conferences in this field such as CHES, DATE, DAC, IEEE HOST, and IEEE MEMOCODE. He is a Guest Editor for IEEE Design and Test Magazine, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.