Ilia Polian

Full Professor (W3) and Director of the Institute for Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering (ITI)
Pfaffenwaldring 47
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 711 685 60 764
Fax: +49 711 685 88 288

Email: <my-first-name> (at) <my-last-name> .de

Brief Biography

Since 10/2017: Full Professor and Director of ITI, University of Stuttgart, Germany
04/2010 – 10/2017: Full Professor and Chair of Computer Engineering, University of Passau, Germany
10/2013 – 09/2015: Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau, Germany
12/2008 – 03/2008: Managing Director, Freiburg Centre for Security and Society
12/2003 – 03/2010: Senior postdoctoral researcher (C1) and leader of the sub-group «test and reliability», Computer Architecture Group, University of Freiburg
10/1999 – 11/2003: Researcher, Computer Architecture Group, University of Freiburg

Degrees

Diploma (MSc) 1999; Dr. rer. nat. (PhD; summa cum laude) 2003; Habilitation (professor's qualification exam) 2008, all in Computer Science and from the University of Freiburg
Diploma in Economics (with distinction) from the University of Hagen 2008

Longer Research Visits and Internships

04/2016 – 07/2016: FRIAS Fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany 06/2012 – 07/2012: Research visitor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
05/2005 – 09/2005: JSPS Visiting Research Fellow, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
07/1998 – 10/1998: Intern, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Böblingen, Germany
10/1997 – 03/1998: Intern, Micronas Intermetall, Freiburg

Research Interests and Activities

Hardware-oriented security: Fault-injection attacks; hardware realizations of postquantum cryptography; hardware Trojans; physical unclonable functions
Robustness:Test methods for nano and microelectronic circuits; defect modeling; power-aware test; test of embedded SRAMs; reliability and functional safety; safety vs. security
Emerging architectures: Stochastic circuits and their use in neuromorphic applications; architectures with memristive components; security aspects of emerging architectures
Quantum computing:Design and validation of advanced quantum error-correcting schemes (topological QEC)

Publications

Complete list of my publications in PDF format
My publications on DBLP (does not include some of the interdiscipliary non-Computer-Science papers)
My publications on Google Scholar
Bibliographical indicators: Hirsch index H = 28 (September 2018, according to Google Scholar); Erdös Number: 3 (through John P. Hayes and Frank Harary)

Major Projects

Algebraic Fault Attacks (with Universities of Freiburg and Passau, funded by DFG)
TRUDEVICE: Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices (COST Action IC 1204, 22 involved countries, Vice Speaker)
Test and Diagnosis in Nanoscale Technologies (with University of Freiburg, funded by DFG)
REALTEST: Test and Reliability of Nano-Electronic Systems (with Universities of Stuttgart, Freiburg, Paderborn, Fraunhofer IIS-EAS Dresden, funded by DFG)
EFRE Competence Center for Pervasive Computing and Embedded Systems (in Passau; funded by European Regional Development Fund) – Center's web site (German-only)

Active Ongoing Collaborations

Bernd Becker (University of Freiburg)
Austin Fowler (Google Santa Barbara)
John P. Hayes (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Osnat Keren (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Martin Kreuzer (University of Passau)
Francesco Regazzoni (USI Lugano)

Teaching and Advising

Graduate (Master-level) courses in Stuttgart: «Hardware-oriented Security», «Computer Architecture and Organization», «Electronic Design Automation», «Robust System Design», research-oriented seminars «Hardware-oriented Security», «Emerging Architectures»
Undergraduate (Bachelor-level) courses in Stuttgart: «Computer Organization I», «Computer Organization II» (practical)
Courses in Passau (before 2017): «Combinational and Sequential Circuits», «Computer Engineering», «Computer Architecture», «Embedded Systems» «Electronic Design Automation», «Robust System Design»
Courses in Freiburg (before 2010): «Computer Engineering», «Computer Architecture», «Embedded Systems», «Test and Reliability»

Teaching-oriented Functions and Contributions

Conceptualized and introduced new study program «Mobile and Embedded Systems» in Passau
Introduced an English-taught track of Master in Computer Science in Passau, which students without German-language skills can take (partially funded by StMWFK)
Head of the Examination Committee in Passau, 10/2010 – 09/2013
Pilot project on using e-Learning for student marketing in Passau

Current Doctoral Students in Stuttgart

Sebastian Brandhofer
Preliminary topic: Synthesis of Robust Quantum Computers
Mael Gay
Preliminary topic: Fault-injection Attacks and Countermeasures
Florian Neugebauer
Preliminary topic: Stochastic Circuits

Visiting Doctoral Students in Stuttgart

Felipe Valencia (August 2018 – July 2019)
Home institution: Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (advisor: F. Regazzoni)
Topic: Hardware Acceleration for Post-quantum Cryptography

Doctoral Students Supervised in Passau

Jie Jiang (2010 – 2016)
Title: Delay Testing in Nanoscale Technology under Process Variations
Philipp Jovanovic (2011 – 2015, co-supervised by Prof. Martin Kreuzer, summa cum laude)
Title: Analysis and Design of Symmetric Cryptographic Algorithms
Current employer: EPFL Lausanne
Josef Kinseher (2014 – 2018)
Title: New Methods for Improving Embedded Memory Manufacturing Tests
Current employer: Intel Wireless, Munich
Alexandru Paler (2010 – 2014)
Title: Design Methods for Reliable Quantum Circuits
Current employer: University of Linz
Victor Tomashevich (2010 – 2016)
Title: Fault Tolerance Aspects of Virtual Massive MIMO Systems

Visiting Doctoral Students in Passau

Raghavan Kumar (July – December 2013)
Home institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (advisor: Wayne P. Burleson)
Topic: Hardware Trojans for fault-based attacks
Sudarshan Srinivasan (July – December 2011)
Home institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (advisor: Sandip Kundu)
Topic: Cross-level protection against faults and attacks;

Doctoral Students Co-Supervised in Freiburg (before 2010)

Piet Engelke (2003 – 2009, summa cum laude)
Title: Resistive bridging faults
Current employer: Infineon Technologies, Munich
Stefan Spinner (2005 – 2010, married and changed name to Hillebrecht in 2008)
Title: Interconnect reliability and test
Current employer: Advantest, Böblingen
Alexander Czutro (2007 – 2013)
Title: Efficiency and Applications of SAT-Based Test Pattern Generation – Complex fault models and optimisation problems
Current employer: Besi Switzerland AG
Matthias Sauer (2010 – 2013, summa cum laude)
Title: Testing time – time to test
Current employer: University of Freiburg
Philipp-Klaus Krause (2009 – 2010; moved to University of Frankfurt in 2010)
Topic: Adaptive voltage over-scaling;

Awards and Community Service

Best paper award, IEEE European Test Symposium 2014
Best paper award nomination, ACM/IEEE ASP-DAC Conference 2013
Best paper award in category «Test», IEEE DDECS Symposium 2011
Two papers (from 2004 and 2010) selected for the compendium volume «Best papers 2002–2011 of the IEEE Asian Test Symposium»
IEEE Senior Member (since 2007)
Ph.D. thesis proposed for German Informatics Society Outstanding Dissertation Award abstract published in «Outstanding Computer Science Dissertations 2003» by German Computer Science Society.
Wolfgang-Gentner Award 2004 for outstanding scientific performance of a young researcher (link in German; sponsored by Volksbank Freiburg; co-laureate with Felix Klädtke and Maren Bennewitz).
European Champion and Vice World Champion at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 1999 (final results and a report in a newspaper)
VDI Award 1999 (sponsored by VDI, the German Engineering Association; co-laureate with Immanuel Herrmann and Daniel Fleig)
Referent for foreign student affairs at AStA (Student Union); 1994-95
DAAD Award 1995 (sponsored by DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Program)

Awards and Recognitions Obtained by Students during my Supervision

Faculty Award for the best doctoral dissertation for Philipp Jovanovic (2016)
Authenticated stream cipher NORX by Philpp Jovanovic selected for the third round of the CAESAR competition (2015). Invited talk at 31C3 congress in Berlin.
Successful attack on the Open Smart Grid Protocol by Philipp Jovanovic
Wolfgang Gentner Award for outstanding doctoral thesis of Matthias Sauer. The thesis finishes second in the best thesis competition at IEEE European Test Symposium (2014)
Alexandru Paler invited to Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2013)
Piet Engelke wins the best thesis competition at IEEE European Test Symposium (2009)

Membership and Functions in Professional Organizations

Membership: IEEE (Senior Member since 2007), GI (German Informatics Society), DHV (German University Professors Association)
Student Activities Chair, Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC), IEEE Computer Society, 2010 – 2012
Worldwide coordinator of TTTC‘s E.J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award (Annual contest of PhD graduates with thesis on test methods or reliability with semi-finals at regional IEEE symposia and finals at a major IEEE conference)
Program Chair of the TTTC Test Technology Educational Program (TTEP) since 2017
Vice Speaker of interest group 5 “test methods and reliability of circuits and systems” of joint committee RSS «computer-aided circuit and system design» of three national societies: GI (FA 3.5), VDE/VDI GMM (FB 8) and VDE ITG (FA 8.2) (since 2012)

Conference Organization

Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE): Track Chair DT6 (Design and Test of Secure Systems) 2018 (Dresden), 2019 (Florence)
International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE): Program Chair 2019 (Darmstadt)
International Verification and Security Workshop (IVSW): Program Chair 2018 (Platja d’Aro), Special Session Chair 2017 (Thessaloniki)
Workshop on Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices (TRUDEVICE): Program Chair 2013 (Avignon), General Chair 2014 (Paderborn), 2015 (Grenoble)
IEEE European Test Symposium: Finance Chair 2007 (Freiburg), Student Forum / Student Activities Chair 2009 (Sevilla), 2011 (Trondheim), 2012 (Annecy); Fringe Workshop Chair 2013 (Avignon), 2014 (Paderborn); Topic Chair Automatic Test Pattern Generation 2015 (Cluj-Napoca), 2016 (Amsterdam), 2017 (Limassol), 2018 (Bremen); Topic Chair Hardware Security 2019 (Baden-Baden)
GI/ITG/GMM Workshop on Test Methods & Reliability (TUZ): General Chair 2011 (Passau), co-organizer 2006 (Freiburg)
IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS): European Liaison 2012 (Niigata)
IEEE RASDAT Workshop: Vice Program Chair 2010 (Bangalore), 2011 (Chennai), 2012 (Hyderabad)
South European Test Seminar: General Chair 2008 and 2013, (Obergurgl, Austria)

Program Committee Member

Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2012 (Dresden), 2015 (Grenoble), 2016 (Dresden), 2017 (Lausanne), 2018 (Dresden), 2019 (Florence)
International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (ISSS+CODES) 2016 (Pittsburgh), 2017 (Seoul), 2018 (Turin)
IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS) 2008 (Verbania), 2009 (Sevilla), 2010 (Prague), 2011 (Trondheim), 2012 (Annecy), 2013 (Avignon), 2014 (Paderborn), 2015 (Cluj Napoca), 2016 (Amsterdam), 2017 (Limassol), 2018 (Bremen), 2019 (Baden-Baden)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) 2018 (Orlando)
IEEE Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST) 2016 (Taipeh), 2017 (Beijing), 2018 (Hongkong)
IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance (DFTS) 2015 (Amherst), 2016 (Storrs), 2017 (Cambridge), 2018 (Chicago)
IEEE Latin American Test Symposium (LATS) 2015 (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico), 2016 (Foz do Iguacu, Brazil), 2018 (Sao Paolo)
IEEE International On-Line Test Symposium (IOLTS): 2009 (Sesimbra), 2010 (Corfu), 2011 (Athens), 2012 (Sitges), 2013 (Hania), 2014 (Platja d'Aro), 2015 (Halkidiki), 2016 (Sant Feliu), 2017 (Thessaloniki), 2018 (Platja d’Aro)
Int'l Test Conference in Asia (ITC-Asia) 2018 (Harbin)
IEEE Int’l Conf. on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WISEE) 2016 (Aachen), 2017 (Montreal), 2018 (Huntsville)
Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC) 2018 (Amsterdam)
Int’l Workshop on Security Proofs for Embedded Systems (PROOFS) 2018 (Amsterdam)
Australian Workshop on Offensive Cryptography (KangaCrypt) 2018 (Adelaide)
GMM/GI/ITG conference on reliability & design (ZUD / ZUE) 2007 (Munich), 2008 (Ingolstadt), 2009 (Stuttgart) 2010 (Wildbad Kreuth), 2011 (Hamburg), 2012 (Bremen), 2013 (Dresden), 2015 (Siegen), 2017 (Cottbus)
GI/ITG/GMM workshop on test methods & reliability (TUZ) 2004 (Dresden), 2005 (Innsbruck), 2006 (Freiburg), 2007 (Erlangen), 2008 (Vienna), 2009 (Bremen), 2010 (Paderborn), 2011 (Passau), 2012 (Cottbus), 2013 (Dresden), 2014 (Kloster Banz), 2015 (Bad Urach), 2016 (Siegen), 2017 (Lübeck), 2018 (Freiburg), 2019 (Prien)

Past Program Committee Member

International Test Conference (ITC) 2012 (Anaheim), 2013 (Anaheim), 2014 (Seattle)
IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS) 2006 (Fukuoka), 2007 (Beijing), 2009 (Taichung, Taiwan), 2011 (New Delhi), 2012 (Niigata), 2013 (Yilan)
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2017 (Banff)
International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID) 2012 (Hyderabad), 2014 (Mumbai)
International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) 2015 (Mumbai)
ACS Int’l Conf. on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM) 2009 (Bangalore)
IFIP Workshop on Information Security: Theory and Practice (WISTP) 2012 (Egham, UK)
IEEE Workshop on RTL and high-level testing 2006 (Fukuoka), 2007 (Beijing), 2008 (Sapporo), 2011 (Jaipur), 2012 (Niigata), 2013 (Jaosi, Taiwan), 2016 (Hiroshima)
International Workshop on Impact of Low-Power design on Test and Reliability (LPonTR) 2009 (Sevilla), 2010 (Prague), 2011 (Trondheim), 2012 (Annecy)

Organization of Dagstuhl Seminars

Hardware Security (May 2016) – with Osnat Keren (Bar Ilan University, IL), Mark M. Tehranipoor (University of Florida, US), Pim Tuyls (Intrinsic-ID, BE)
Secure Composition for Hardware Systems (July 2019) – with Arora Divya (Intel, US), Francesco Regazzoni (USI Lugano, CH), Patrick Schaumont (Virginia Tech, US)

Other Service for Conferences and Journals

Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Hardware-oriented Security, it – Information Technology, 2019
Guest Editor of the Special Issue «Hardware Security – Threats and Countermeasures at the Circuit and Logic Levels», Journal of Low Power and Applications (JLPEA), 2016
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Hardware Security, IET Computers & Digital Techniques, 2014
Panel organizer or panelist: IEEE WRTLT 2007 (Hongkong), IEEE ETS 2007 (Freiburg), ITC 2008 (Santa Clara), IEEE RASDAT 2010 (Bangalore), IEEE VTS 2010 (Santa Cruz), IEEE RASDAT 2011 (Chennai), IEEE ETS 2013 (Avignon), IVSW 2016 (Sant Feliu de Guixols), FDTC 2017 (Taipeh), IVSW 2018 (Platja d'Aro)
Special Session Organizer: WDSN 2010 (Chicago), LPonTR 2010 (Prague), WDSN 2010 (Chicago), IEEE ATS 2010 (Shanghai), LPonTR 2011 (Trondheim), LPonTR 2012 (Annecy), IEEE ATS 2012 (Niigata), IEEE VTS 2013 (Berkeley), ACM/IEEE DAC 2015 (San Francisco), IEEE SOCC 2017 (Munich), ICCAD 2018 (San Diego)
Tutorial presenter: GI/ITG/GMM ZUE 2007 (Munich), LPonTR 2009 (Sevilla), IEEE DDECS 2013 (Karlowy Vary), TRUDEVICE Training School 2016 (Leukerbad)