Soheil Salehi

Soheil Salehi is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Arizona and the director of the Privacy-preserving, intelligent, and secure computing Lab (Prism Lab). Before joining the University, Soheil was a Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Accelerated, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computing Laboratory and the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust at the University of California, Davis.

He received his PhD and MS degrees in ECE from the University of Central Florida in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He has expertise in the areas of hardware and semiconductor security, IoT supply-chain security as well as applied ML for secure hardware design. Moreover, he has designed novel circuits and architectures for secure and accelerated computing. Thus far, Soheil has published over 40 journal manuscripts and conference proceedings, and his research has received support from NSF.

Focus Area

Energy-Efficient Computing: Expertise in VLSI design using emerging spintronic devices for accelerating AI applications as well as signal processing and compressive sensing applications.

Hardware Security: Expertise in semiconductor supply chain security through a defense-in-depth device-to-circuit-to-architecture approach.