Tanvir Arafin

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University.

Our research explores security opportunities in emerging computer architecture, examines the weaknesses in autonomous systems, and builds hardware-derived primitives for developing trusted computation frameworks.

Our work has been published at flagship venues in hardware design and security, such as IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Transaction of Computers (TC), ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), and Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC).

We won the IEEE TC Featured Paper of the Month in 2022, the Best Paper award at IEEE AsianHOST in 2018, the Best Paper Nomination in ACM GLSVLSI in 2017.

Our work has been supported by funding and donations from NSF (Grant ID: 2240514, 2042700), NSA, MIPS, NASA-JPL, ARLIS, and Xilinx.

open positions

We have two fully-funded GRA positions for motivated Ph.D. students to participate in hardware design and computer security research. You can find more details about the position here.

If interested, please send an email along with your resume and transcripts to marafin(at)gmu(dot)edu.