Dr. Hassan Salmani received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor with Howard University, Washington DC. His current research projects include hardware security and trust and supply chain security. He has authored over ten journal articles and refereed conference papers and has frequently invited for technical talks by different companies such as Boeing, Cisco, and Mentor Graphics. He has also authored one book and two book chapter. He regularly serves as a Program Committee Member and the Session Chair for various conferences such as the Design Automation Conference, the Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, the International Conference on Computer Design, VLSI Design, and Test. He is a member of the SAE Internationals G-19A Tampered Subgroup, the ACM, and the ACM SIGDA.