Ranga Vemuri has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Cincinnati since 1989 and is currently a Professor. He directs the Digital Design Environments Lab. His interests span various topics within Hardware Trust, Correctness and Security; VLSI Design and Architectures; Formal Methods and Formal Verification; Electronic Design Automation; Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs. He and his students have published over 300 papers and have received several Best Paper Awards and nominations. Prof. Vemuri graduated 42 PhD and 90 MS students. His research has been funded by AFRL, DAGSI, DARPA, NSF, State of Ohio and various industries including EDAptive Computing Inc. Prof. Vemuri was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Computer.
Suyuan Chen received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2019. Currently, he is an ASIC Engineer at Apple Inc. where his work deals with SoC design using state-of-the-art 7nm, 5nm and 3nm CMOS technologies. His interests span a variety of topics in Hardware Security, LSI/AMS IC Design Methodologies, and Computer Aided Design.