BIO:


Simha Sethumadhavan is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia
University. Simha's research work at Columbia is focused on finding
practical solutions to problems in area of cybersecurity and computer
architecture. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship,
and the NSF CAREER award. His work has received ten best paper awards and
his team has successfully taped out three novel computing chips (e.g.,
an analog-digital computing chip) on shoestring budgets. His teams work on
identifying security vulnerabilities resulted in fixes to major products
such as mobile phone processors and web browsers used by millions of
users, and his work on hardware security is actively considered by
standards organizations. He has served on the Federal Communications
Commission Downloadable Security Technical Advisory Committee. He is the
Founder & CEO of Chip Scan Inc., a hardware security company focussed
on finding and mitigating hardware backdoors. Simha obtained his PhD
from UT Austin in 2007.

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