Samah Saeed

Assistant Professor

Main Affiliation

Electrical Engineering

Building

Steinman Hall

Office

ST 640

Phone

(212) 650-7046

Fax

(212) 650-8249

Email

ssaeed@ccny.cuny.edu

Website

Photograph of Prof. Samah Saeed

Samah Saeed

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, New York University, Polytechnic School of Engineering.
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Kuwait University, College of Science.
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Kuwait University, College of Science.

Research Interests

  • Hardware Security.
  • Quantum Computing.
  • Computer Aided Design: Design for Test, Design for Trust, Design for Secure Test.

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

j10. Kanad Basu, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Pilato Christian, Mohammad Ashraf, Mohammad Thari Nabeel, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淚s CAD Bad,鈥 Submitted to ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.  
j9. Samah Mohamed Saeed, Nithin Mahendran, Alwin Zulehner, Ramesh Karri, and Robert Will, 鈥淐an an IP/IC Pirate Identify the Synthesis Approach of a Reversible Circuit?,鈥 submitted to Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, 2018.
j8.  Xiaotong Cui, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Alwin Zulehner. Robert Wille, Kaijie Wu, Rolf Drechsler, Ramesh Karri, 鈥淥n the Difficulty of Inserting Trojans in Reversible Computing Architectures,鈥 Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2018.
j7. Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Sk Subidh Ali, Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淭iming Attack and Countermeasure on NEMS Relay Based Design of Block Ciphers,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2017.
J6. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淎 comprehensive Design-for-Test Infrastructure in the Context of Security- Critical Applications,鈥 IEEE Design & Test, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 57-64, Feb. 2017.
j5. Sk Subidh Ali, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淣ovel Test- Mode-Only Scan Attack and Countermeasure for Compression-Based Scan Architectures,鈥 Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 34, issue 5, pp. 808-821, May. 2015.
j4. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淒fT Support for Launch and Capture Power Reduction in Launch-Off-Shift and Launch-Off-Capture Testing,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 22, issue 3, pp. 516-521, Mar. 2014.
j3. Samah Mohamed Saeed, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Sobeeh Almukhaizim, 鈥淧redictive Techniques for Projecting Test Data Compression,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol.21, no.9, pp. 1762-1766, Sep. 2013.
 j2. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淓xpedited-Compact Architecture for Average Scan Power Reduction,鈥 IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol.30, no.3, pp.25- 33, Jun. 2013.
j1. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淢ulti-Modal Response Compaction Adaptive to X-Density Variation,鈥 IET Computer and Digital Techniques, vol. 2, issue 6, pp. 69-77, Mar. 2012.
 

Conference Proceedings

c14. Samah Mohamed Saeed, Xiaotong Cui, Alwin Zulehner, Robert Wille, Kaijie Wu, Rolf Drechsler and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淚P Piracy Assessment of Reversible Logic,鈥 Accepted to International Conference On Computer Aided Design, 2018.
c13. Samah Mohamed Saeed, Nithin Mahendran, Alwin Zulehner, Ramesh Karri, and Robert Wille, 鈥淚dentifying Reversible Circuit Synthesis Approaches to Enable IP Piracy Attacks,鈥 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, USA, pp. 537鈥540, 2017.
c12. Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Sk Subidh Ali, and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淭hwarting Timing Attacks on NEMS Relay Based Designs,鈥 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, USA, pp. 1-4, 2016.
c11. Muhammad Yasin, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, and Ozgur Sinanoglu,鈥淎ctivation of Logic Encrypted Chips: Pre-Test or Post-Test?,鈥 IEEE Design, Automation, And Test In Europe, Germany, pp. 139-144, 2016. 
c10. Samah Mohamed Saeed, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Sk Subidh Ali, Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淭iming Attack on NEMS Relay Based Design of AES,鈥 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, USA, pp. 264-269, 2015. 
c9. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淒fST: Design for Secure  Testability,鈥滻EEE International Test Conference, USA, pp. 1-10, 2014.
c8. Samah Mohamed Saeed, Sk Subidh Ali, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淣ovel Test- Mode-Only Scan Attack for Contemporary Scan Architectures,鈥 IEEE International Test Conference, USA, pp. 1-8, 2014.
c7. Sk Subidh Ali, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淣ew Scan Attacks Against State-of-the-art Countermeasures and DFT,鈥 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, Arlington, USA, pp. 142-147, 2014.
c6. Abishek Ramdas, Samah Mohamed Saeed, and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淪lack Removal for Enhanced Reliability and Trust,鈥 IEEE Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era, Santorini, Greece, pp. 1-4, 2014.
c5. Sk Subidh Ali, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淣ew Scan- Based Attack Using Only the Test Mode,鈥 IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 234-239, 2013.
c4. Sk Subidh Ali, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淪can Attack in the Presence of Mode-Reset Countermeasure,鈥 IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, Crete, Greece, pp. 230-231, 2013.
c3. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淒fT Support for Launch and Capture Power Reduction in Launch-Off-Capture Testing,鈥 IEEE European Test Symposium, Annecy, France, pp. 1-6, 2012.
c2. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淓xpedited Response Compaction for Scan Power Reduction,鈥 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Dana Point, CA, USA, pp. 40-45, 2011. (Best paper award)
c1. Samah Mohamed Saeed and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淴OR-Based Response Compactor Adaptive to X-Density Variation,鈥 IEEE Asian Test Symposium, Shanghai, China, pp. 212- 217, 2010.
 

Book Chapter

b2. Samah Mohamed Saeed, Sk Subidh Ali, and Ozgur Sinanoglu, 鈥淪can Design: Basics, Advancements and Vulnerabilities,鈥 Hardware Security and Trust: Design and Deployment of Integrated Circuits in a Threatened Environment, 2017.
b1. Sk Subidh Ali, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Ramesh Karri, 鈥淣ew Scan-Based Attack Using Only the Test Mode And An Input Corruption Countermeasure,鈥 VLSI-SOC Springer Book Chapter, 2014.