Karimi gets COEIT early career faculty excellence award

UMBC CSEE Associate Professor Naghmeh Karimi was nominated by her peers for her commitment in her field, excellence in her career, and advancement of the College and UMBC's mission.  In recognition of her efforts, UMBC's College of Engineering and Information Technology, with the Provost's approval, has awarded Dr. Karimi with the 2023 COEIT Early Career Faculty Excellence Award.  The award honored her for overall excellence and promise of scholarship and teaching based on work done at UMBC.

Dr.  Karimi's research areas include hardware security and design-for-trust, fault tolerance and design-for-reliability, hardware testing and design-for-testability, hardware design and synthesis, VLSI design, computer architecture, and EDA tools. She directs the UMBC SECure, REliable and Trusted Systems (SECRETS) Laboratory.

She was a recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2020. The grant, totaling approximately $500,000 over five years, supports her research on how device-aging related risks compromise the security of cryptographic devices.

Professor Karimi has published four book chapters and over 80 papers in refereed conference proceedings and journals.