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), Design and Automation Conference (DAC), Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, and Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (HOST).

We won the Best Poster/Demo Award at ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) in 2025, the Best Hardware Demo Award: 2nd Place at IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2024 in 2024, 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: 2523805, 2519390, 2438599 2245156, 2042700), NSA, MIPS, NASA-JPL, ARLIS, and Xilinx.

open positions

We always have fully-funded GRA positions for motivated Ph.D. students to participate in hardware design and computer security research. If interested, please send an email along with your resume and transcripts to marafin(at)gmu(dot)edu.