Secure In-memory Computing Architectures

In this talk, I will introduce my research group’s activities, outlining our general philosophy and key research directions. I will begin with MAGIC-based in-memory computing (IMC) architectures, detailing their experimental validation—with emphasis on MAGIC OR and NOT implementations. Expanding beyond general-purpose IMC, I will present our work on application-specific implementations of the Tsetlin machine, demonstrating its tailored efficiency for targeted workloads. The discussion will then shift to our hardware prototyping efforts, bridging theory and practice. Finally, I will highlight advances in hardware-oriented security and trust, including physically unclonable functions (PUFs), true random number generators (TRNGs), and integrated security architectures—addressing critical challenges in modern computing systems.

Biography: 

Farhad is trained in electronics engineering and received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. After his PhD, he worked in industry (Bosch Research) and academia (NTU and RWTH Aachen University), in various research roles such as researcher and postdoctoral research fellow. Farhad worked at Newcastle University as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) from December 2022 until June 2024. He joined the University of Groningen as an Assistant Professor of Innovative Computer Architecture at the Bernoulli Institute on July 1, 2024. He is also affiliated to CogniGron.

His research interests are emerging technology-based computing and hardware-oriented security. Farhad has received the best paper awards at ISQED 2022, NEWCAS 2023, and VLSI-DAT 2024. Besides, he has received a Minerva Short-Term fellowship to visit Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the HiPEAC technology transfer award in 2019, and the DAAD Sandwich Model scholarship during his PhD to visit RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Farhad also serves as a technical programme committee member in major conferences such as DAC, ISLPED, ICCAD, ESWeek, ICCD, and VLSI-SoC. He is an associate editor in the IEEE Embedded System Letters. He has co-founded an annual workshop entitled Secure Hardware, Architectures, and Software – SeHAS, which has been organised at the HiPEAC conference since 2019. Farhad is the coordinator of the REACT Doctoral Network funded by MSCA (project-react.eu)

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