Soheil Salehi

Soheil Salehi is a tenure-track assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computing, and Software Engineering at the University of Arizona, a fellow of the Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM), and the Director of the Power-efficient, Resilient, Intelligent, and Secure Microsystems (PRISM) Lab. Before joining the University of Arizona, he served as an NSF-Sponsored Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) at the University of California, Davis.

Salehi's technical research interests are hardware and AI-enabled security in IoT, generative AI for hardware design and security, energy-efficient and intelligent signal conversion and processing in IoT, neuromorphic and biologically-inspired AI hardware, emerging spin-based devices, reconfigurable and adaptive computer architectures, low-power and reliability-aware VLSI circuits, digital twins and mixed reality for semiconductor workforce development and generative AI for personalized education.

Salehi received his PhD and MS in computer engineering from the University of Central Florida. He has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications in top-quality journals and conference proceedings, three book chapters and has served on numerous high-impact program committees, including DAC, ICCAD, NDSS, and USENIX Security.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE, an ACM member, and his research has received funding from the NSF, U.S. Army, major University of Arizona research initiatives, and industry sponsorships. Salehi is also the founder of the AI Hardware Design League (AI-HDL), an impactful national and international program focused on developing the next-generation semiconductor, hardware security, and AI workforce.