Recent News:
Patrick Schaumont named College of Engineering Faculty Fellow (April 2013)
Capital Region organizations get introduction to ECE embedded security research (April 2013)
Secure Embedded Systems lab offers new open-source software (Jan. 2013)
2nd edition of embedded systems textbook published (Jan. 2013)
New handheld computer security course offered this spring (Oct. 2012)
Schaumont named Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week (July 2012)
Schaumont named teacher of the week (May 2012)
Patrick Schaumont receives Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (May 2012)
Testing the crypto standard in ASIC (2012 Annual Report)
Patrick Schaumont promoted to Associate Professor (June 2011)
Evaluating cryptographic performance (2011 Annual Report)
Magnifying processing flaws to make on-chip fingerprints (2011 Annual Report)
Shedding Sunshine on sensor network hardware design (2010 Annual Report)
Unlocking the secrets of the Spartan boards (2010 Annual Report)
Standardizing crypto evaluations, benchmarks (2010 Annual Report)
On-chip fingerprints (2010 Annual Report)
ECEs spot FPGA security weakness; Finding may lead to new chip ID (2008 Annual Report)
Tree of trust: Protecting the data in embedded computers (2007 Annual Report)
Office: Durham 337
Mailing Address: 302 Whittemore (0111)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Tel: (540) 231-3553
Fax: (540) 231-3362
vt.edu Email: schaum
Affiliated Research Group
Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA)
Title: Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, UCLA, 2004
M.S., Computer Science, Ghent University, Belgium, 1990
Teaching Interests:
• ECE 5984: Handheld Computer Security
• ECE 5520: Secure Hardware Design
• ECE 4530: Hardware/Software Codesign
• ECE 4514: Digital Design II
• ECE 2534: Microcontroller Interfacing
Research Interests:
Schaumont works on cryptographic engineering in the context of embedded systems design, covering hardware as well as software. This research seeks solutions that offer the right trade-off between between system performance, system cost, and system security.
Related ECE Research areas:
- Computer Systems
- Configurable Computing
- Cybersecurity
- Embedded Systems
- VLSI & Design Automation
- Recent Presentations
- P. Schaumont, “Moving PUFs out of the lab,” CESCA Seminar, Blacksburg VA, January 2012. Project Information
- P. Schaumont, “Specialized Machines for Cryptanalysis: Two examples, sixty years apart,” CESCA Seminar, February 2011. Project Information
- Project Website
- P. Schaumont, “GEZEL Hardware/Software Codesign Environment,” online, 2012.
- P. Schaumont, “Secure Embedded Systems at Virginia Tech,” online, 2012.
- A. Maiti et al, “PUF Research at SES VT,” online, 2012.
- X. Guo et al, “SHA-3 ASIC Design at SES VT,” online, 2012.
- Textbook
- P. Schaumont, “A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign,” Springer Circuits and Systems Series, 1st Edition, ISBN 978-1-4419-5999-7, xviii+396 pages, September 2010.