Dr. Michael Zuzak is an Assistant Professor in the department of computer engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Zuzak’s research interests are in hardware security, digital VLSI, and electronic design automation (EDA). His current research explores methods for the design and manufacture of secure, trustworthy, and reliable electronic systems with provable security against reverse engineering, hardware trojan insertion, and side-channel attacks. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Zuzak investigated high-frequency, wide-band digital signal processing system architecture at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.