Prof. Simha Sethumadhavan's research is focused on finding practical solutions to problems in area of cybersecurity. Prof. Sethumadhavan is best known for his "hardware-up" principle for designing secure systems, which roughly speaking states that security systems should be designed like hardware systems, and should have an hardware component. This principle guides design of computer and cyber-physical systems when security is a first order design requirement: it teaches how foundations for security and trust can be built into hardware. Simha Sethumadhavan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Prof. Sethumadhavan is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award and a IBM co-operative research award. He has received six best paper awards in computer security and computer architecture. His teams work on identifying security vulnerabilities resulted in fixes to major products such as mobile phone processors and web browsers used by millions of users, and his work on hardware security is actively considered by standards organizations. He has served on the Federal Communications Commission Downloadable Security Technical Advisory Committee. He is the founder of Chip Scan Inc. a company that specializes in technology for producing trustworthy hardware.
