Recent News:

  • December 2020: Hossein gave an invited talk on Machine Learning for Hardware Cybersecurity at Morgan State University .
  • October 2020: Hossein is invited to serve as a Session Chair in ICCAD'20 (Session: Side-channel Attacks and Defenses).
  • October 2020: Hossein will be serving as a TPC memeber of ISQED'21 and SVCC'20.
  • September 2020: Paper on Applied ML for Zero-day Side-channel Attacks Detection (HybriDG) got accepted in ICMLA'20 .
  • September 2020: Paper on Multi-phase ML-based Detetcion and Identification of Zero-day SCAs (Phased-Guard) got accepted in ICCD'20 .
  • August 2020: Hossein will be the Guest Editor of a special issue in the open access journal Cryptography (by MDPI) on Cybersecurity, Cryptography, and Machine Learning.
  • July 2020: Paper on Hybrid Cache-Based Side-Channel Attacks Detection and Mitigation (Hybrid-Shield) got accepted in ICCAD'20 .
  • July 2020: Paper on securing IoT Networks against Malware Epidemics got accepted in IEEE Access.
  • June 2020: Paper on Review of Machine Learning-based Countermeasures for Microarchitectural Security got accepted in MWSCAS'20 .
  • May 2020: ISEC Lab member Abigail Kwan, successfully defended her Thesis and received the Outstanding Computer Engineering Graduate Award. Congratulations Abigail!
  • April 2020: Paper on ML-based Side-channel Attack Detection got accepted in IOLTS'20 .
  • February 2020: Two papers on Microarchitectural Stealthy Malware Detection and Side-Channel Attack Anlaysis got accepted in GLSVLSI'20.
  • January 2020: Hossein will be serving as a TPC member of GLSVLSI'20.
  • November 2019: Three papers on Side-channel Attacks Analysis, Stealthy Malware Detection, and Adversarial ML got accepted in GOMACTech'20 .
  • October 2019: Paper on Processor Side-Channel Attack Mitigation got accepted in DATE'20.
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Hossein Sayadi

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science

California State University, Long Beach



Short Bio: Hossein Sayadi is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Hossein obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax, VA where he conducted his doctoral research on machine learning-based solutions for secure and energy-efficient computer systems. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering with emphasis on Computer Architecture from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran where he worked on fault tolerant computer design and reliability improvement of on-chip memories in embedded systems. He also obtained his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (Computer Hardware) from K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU) , Tehran, Iran.

Hossein's research interests mainly lie in several areas of computer engineering and computer science including computer systems cybersecurity, hardware security, applied machine learning, computer architecture, and energy-efficient computing. Hossein is the director of Intelligent, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computer Systems (ISEC) Lab, in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science of the California State University, Long Beach. Hossein is a two-time recipient of the Provost Doctoral Fellowship from George Mason University. His research has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed technical papers in prestigious conferences and journals on the subject. Furthermore, Hossein is serving as a Guest Editor of MDPI Journal of Cryptography and a technical committee member of several international conferences including ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Int'l. Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC), and Int'l. Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC).


Research Opportunity: Multiple Research Assistant (RA) positions are available for Spring 2021 and Summer 2021. Please email me a copy of your CV if you are interested. Motivated graduate and undergraduate students with background in at least one of the areas of Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Computer Architecture, and Cybersecurity are encouraged to apply.

Address

1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA, USA 90840

Email

hossein [dot] sayadi [at] csulb [dot] edu




Publications

Research

ISEC Lab


Hossein Sayadi

Founder & Director

Intelligent, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computer Systems (ISEC) Lab, in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science of the California State University, Long Beach under the direction of Dr. Hossein Sayadi, is a research group for exploring different challenges associated with Intelligent, Secure, Energy-Efficient Computer Systems and Architecture Design. ISEC Lab has broad research interests in Hardware Security, Computer Systems Cybersecurity, Computer Architecture, Applied Machine Learning, Energy-Efficient Computing, and Heterogeneous Multicore Processor architectures design and optimization. The overarching research vision of ISEC Lab is to architect the modern computer systems more efficiently for Secure and Sustainable Computing in presence of security and energy-efficiency challenges. In particular, the current research theme of ISEC Lab concentrates on hardware & architecture security, run-time malware detection, processor architecture side-channel attacks analysis, adversarial machine learning, and scheduling and resource management in heterogeneous multicore architectures. In our research, we are mainly interested in proposing novel solutions to address major challenges of security and energy-efficiency of modern computing systems that the computer design industries are currently dealing with, across various emerging application domains including High-Performance Computing, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud Computing.

Research Opportunity: ISEC Lab is always looking for motivated graduate and undergraduate students. Please email me a copy of your CV if you are interested.


ISEC Lab Members:




Han (Jane) Wang
PhD Student, ECE, UC Davis
Co-advised with Dr. Houman Homayoun
Research: Side-Channel Attacks, Adversarial ML

Zhangying (Mandy) He
Master Student, Computer Engineering
California State University, Long Beach
Research: Deep Learning for Cybersecurity

Utkarsh Khanagwal
Master Student, Computer Science
California State University, Long Beach
Research: Computer Architecture



Alumni:




Abigail Kwan
Undergraduate Honors Student
Computer Engineering, Class of 2020
California State University, Long Beach
Research: Hardware-Based Malware Detection
First Job: Northrop Grumman

News

Teaching

Education

2015-2019

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Degree

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dissertation: Machine Learning-based Solutions for Secure and Energy-Efficient Computer Systems

Advisor: Prof. Houman Homayoun

2012-2014

Master of Science (M.Sc.) Degree

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Computer Engineering-Computer Architecture

Dissertation: A Recomputation-based Approach for Error Correction of Scratchpad Memory in Embedded Systems

Advisor: Prof. Seyed Ghassem Miremadi

2007-2012

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree

K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Computer Engineering-Computer Hardware