Prior to joining GMU, Houman spent two years at the UC- San Diego, as National Science Foundation Computing Innovation (CI) Fellow awarded by the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). Houman’s research is in big data computing, heterogeneous computing, and hardware security and trust. He is currently leading several research funded projects (a total of $7.2 million), supported by DARPA, NSF, NIST, GM, and AFRL on heterogeneous computing and hardware security. He received the 2016 GLSVLSI conference best paper award. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI). Houman is the co-founder of Green Silica.