Ramesh Karri

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Chair

  • Professor of ECE

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  • Professor of ECE
  • Co-founded NYU CCS (2009)
  • Co-Directed NYU CCS (2016-2024)

Ramesh Karri is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University. He co-founded the NYU Center for Cyber Security (cyber.nyu.edu) NYU in 2009. He co-directed the center from 2016-2024. He co-founded the Trust-Hub (trust-hub.org) and founded/organizes the Embedded Systems Challenge (csaw.engineering.nyu.edu/esc), the annual red-blue team event.

Ramesh Karri holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California at San Diego, and a B.E in ECE from Andhra University. With a focus on hardware cybersecurity, his research and educational endeavors encompass trustworthy ICs, processors, and cyber-physical systems; security-aware computer-aided design, test, verification, validation, and reliability; nano meets security; hardware security competitions, benchmarks, and metrics; biochip security; and additive manufacturing security. Ramesh has published over 350 articles in prestigious journals and conferences.

A Fellow of IEEE, Ramesh's work on hardware cybersecurity has earned numerous best paper award nominations (IEEE S&P 2022, ICCD 2015 and DFTS 2015) and awards (ITC 2014, CCS 2013, DFTS 2013, VLSI Design 2012, ACM Student Research Competition at DAC 2012, ICCAD 2013, DAC 2014, ACM Grand Finals 2013, Kaspersky Challenge, and Embedded Security Challenge). He received the Humboldt Fellowship and the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He is the Editor in Chief of the ACM Journal of Emerging Computing Technologies and an Associate Editor for IEEE and ACM journals. He has had leadership roles in various IEEE conferences like ICCD, HOST, DFTS, and others. He served as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor from 2013-2015 and was on the Executive Committee for Security@DAC from 2014-2017. Additionally, he's been on multiple PCs and delivered keynotes on Hardware Security and Trust at events like ESRF, DAC, MICRO.

Research Interests
Trustworthy Hardware Nano-enabled Security and Assurance Computer Aided Design of Secure Systems, Cybersecurity, GenAI-based Chip Design

University of Hyderabad 1988

Master of Technology, Computer Science

Andhra University 1985

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering

University of California, San Diego 1992

Master of Science, Computer Engineering

University of California, San Diego 1993

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science


NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Professor

Research and teaching in computer engineering. Current research focus is on trustworthy and secure hardware.

From: September 2011 to present

Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Associate Professor

Research and teaching in computer engineering. Current research focus is on trustworthy and secure hardware.

From: September 1998 to August 2011

Lucent Bell Labs Engineering Research Center, Princeton

Member of Technical Staff

On-line built-in self test of VLSICs

From: June 1997 to July 1998

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research and teaching in computer engineering.

From: September 1993 to July 1998

University of California, San Diego

Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

From: September 1989 to August 1993

Fifth Generation Computing Group, CMC Research and Development Ce

Research Engineer

Implemented multiprocessor cache consistency protocols and evaluated their performance and scalability.

From: May 1988 to June 1989


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