Bio
Patrick Schaumont is an Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA (2004). He has been a researcher at the Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium from 1992 to 2001. His research interests include design of, and design methodologies for, secure embedded systems. He has served on the program committee of international conferences in this field such as CHES, DATE, DAC, IEEE HOST and IEEE MEMOCODE, and as guest editor for IEEE Design and Test Magazine, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, 2004.
Licenciaat degree in de Informatica, University of Ghent, Belgium, 1990.
Industrieel Ingenieur Electronica, Industriele Hogeschool van het Rijk, Ghent, Belgium, 1988.
Appointments
| Jun 11 - now | Associate Professor, ECE Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. |
| Aug 05 - May 11 | Assistant Professor, ECE Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. |
| Jan 05 - Jul 05 | Post-doctoral scholar, EE Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. |
| Jul 01 - Dec 04 | Graduate Student Researcher, EE Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. |
| Jan 92 - Jun 01 | Staff Researcher, Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC), Belgium. |
| Apr 89 - Dec 90 | Instrumentation Engineer, Dept of Solid-State Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium. |
Awards and Honors
| 2013 | Dean's Faculty Fellow Award, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech |
| 2012 | Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech |
| 2011 | Best Paper Award, International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) |
| 2011 | Best Paper Award, Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) |
| 2007 | Microelectronic Systems Education Conference Best Paper Runner-Up |
| 2007 | Dean's Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech |
| 2007 | National Science Foundation CAREER Award |
| 2006 | IEEE Senior Member |
| 2005 | DAC/ISSCC student design contest, 3th place operational category |
| 2003 | DAC/ISSCC student design contest, honorable mention, conceptual category |
| 2002 | DAC student design contest, 1st place operational category |
| 2002 | Design Automation Conference (DAC) Graduate Scholarship Award |
| 2001 | UCLA Electrical Engineering Fellowship Award |
Service
Editor - Current Term
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers.
- Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.
- Associate Editor for IACR Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Springer.
Editor - Past Term
- Associate Editor for International Journal on Reconfigurable Computing, Hindawi Publishers, 2011-2013.
- Guest Editor for IACR Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Springer, 2013, Special Issue for CHES 2012. (co-guest editor with Emmanuel Prouff).
- Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Special Section on MEMOCODE 2009, October 2010. (co-guest editor with Roderick Bloem).
- Guest Editor for ACM Transaction on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Special Issue on Security in Reconfigurable Computing, 2009. (co-guest editor With Alex Jones and Steve Trimberger).
- Guest Editor for IEEE Design and Test Magazine, Special Issue on Security in Reconfigurable Systems Design, 2007. (co guest-editor with Anand Raghunathan).
Organizing Committee
- Topic Chair, DATE 2013
co-chair with Guido Bertoni
Topic on Secure Systems, Design Automation and Test Europe, 2013. - Program Co-Chair, CHES 2012
co-chair with Emmanuel Prouff
IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2012. - Topic Co-Chair, DATE 2012
co-chair with Jerome Quevremont
Topic on Secure Systems, Design Automation and Test Europe, 2012. - Program Chair, HOST 2011
IEEE Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, 2011. - Program Co-Chair, WESS 2010
co-chair with Raj Rajagopalan
ACM Workshop on Embedded System Security, 2010. - Track Co-Chair, RECONFIG 2010
co-chair with Kris Gaj
IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs
special track on Reconfigurable Computing for Security and Cryptography. - Vice Program Chair, HOST 2010
IEEE Hardware Oriented Trust and Security Workshop, 2010. - Track Co-Chair, RECONFIG 2009
co-chair with Reouven Elbaz
IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs
special track on Reconfigurable Computing for Security and Cryptography. - Panel Session Chair, CHES 2009
IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2008. - Program Co-Chair, MEMOCODE 2009
co-chair with Roderick Bloem
Seventh ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign, 2009. - Publicity Chair, HOST 2009
IEEE Hardware Oriented Trust and Security Workshop. - Design Contest Chair, MEMOCODE 2008
co-chair with James Hoe and Krste Asanovic
ACM-IEEE Conference for Formal Methods and Models for Codesign, 2008. - Rump Session Chair and Poster Session Chair, CHES 2008
IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2008. - Publicity Chair, HOST 2008
IEEE Hardware Oriented Trust and Security Workshop.
Technical Program Committee
- 2013: ARC, CHES, COSADE, DATE, FPL, HASP, HOST, ICCD, IWSEC, WESS
- 2012: ARC, CHES, COSADE, DATE, FPL, HASP, HOST, ICCD, SIES
- 2011: CHES, DAC, DATE, HOST, RECONFIG, SIES, SKEW
- 2010: CHES, DAC, DATE, HOST, MEMOCODE, RECONFIG, SIES
- 2009: CHES, DAC, DATE, HOST, MEMOCODE, RECONFIG, SIES
- 2008: CHES, HOST, MEMOCODE, RECONFIG, SIES, WESS
- Before 2008: CHES, DATE, HLDVT, ICCAD, SIES
- Key
- ARC: International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing.
- COSADE: International Workshop on Constructive Side-channel Analysis and Secure Design.
- CHES: IACR Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems.
- DAC: ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference.
- DATE: International Conference on Design Automation and Test in Europe.
- FPL: International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications.
- HASP: Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy.
- HASP: Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy.
- HLDVT: IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop.
- HOST: IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-oriented Security and Trust.
- ICCAD: IEEE-ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.
- ICCD: International Conference on Computer Design.
- IWSEC: International Workshop on Security.
- MEMOCODE: ACM-IEEE Conference for Formal Methods and Models for Codesign.
- RECONFIG: IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, special track on Reconfigurable Computing for Security and Cryptography.
- SIES: IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems.
- SKEW: Symmetric Key Encryption Workshop.
- WESS: Workshop on Embedded Systems Security.

