About
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University.
I received my M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2016 and 2018.
Open Positions
We have several open positions for motivated graduate students to participate in hardware design and computer security research.
If interested, please send an email along with your resume to marafin(at)gmu(dot)edu.
Research Interest
My research explores security opportunities in emerging computer architecture, examines the weaknesses in autonomous systems, and builds hardware-derived primitives for developing trusted computation frameworks.
My 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).
I 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, and A. James Clerk School of Engineering Fellowship in 2012.
My research has been supported by funding and donations from NSF (Grant ID: 2240514, 2042700), NSA, MIPS, NASA-JPL, ARLIS, and Xilinx.
Recent Publications
- (2022) An Approximate Memory based Defense against Model Inversion Attacks to Neural Networks
- (2021) RIME: A scalable and energy-efficient processing-in-memory architecture for floating-point operations
- (2021) Voltage over-scaling-based lightweight authentication for IoT security
- (2020) FABLE-DTS: Hardware-Software Co-Design of a Fast and Stable Data Transmission System for FPGAs
- (2018) Probing attacks on physical layer key agreement for automotive controller area networks
- (2017) A low-cost gps spoofing detector design for internet of things (iot) applications
Recent News
- (2022) Dr. Arafin received a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled “An Edge-Based Approach to Robust Multi-Robot Systems in Dynamic Environments.”
- (2022) Dr. Arafin received a research grant from Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) for his work on secure processor design.
- (2022) Our work, “Voltage Over-Scaling-Based Lightweight Authentication for IoT Security,” won the IEEE TC Featured Paper of the Month in 2022.
- (2022) Dr. Arafin has been invited as a TPC member for the 2022 Asia and Southern Pacific Design and Test Automation Conference (ASPDAC 2022).
- (2021) Our paper “Attack Detection and Countermeasures for Autonomous Navigation.” accepted at CISS 2021.
- (2021) Dr. Arafin received a research grant from Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security.