Biography: Mehdi Tahoori

Mehdi Tahoori is currently a Full Professor and the Chair of Dependable Nano-Computing, Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. He received the B.S. degree in computer engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2002 and 2003, respectively. In 2003, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, where he became an Associate Professor in 2009. From August to December 2015, he was a visiting professor at VLSI Design and Education Center (VDEC), University of Tokyo, Japan. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Research Scientist with Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, CA. He has authored over 250 publications in major journals and conference proceedings on a wide range of topics, from dependable computing and emerging nanotechnologies to system biology, and holds several US and European patents. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Microelectronic Reliability journal, associate editor for IEEE Design and Test Magazine, coordinating editor for Springer Journal of Electronic Testing (JETTA), and associate editor of IET Computers and Digital Techniques. He is the program chair of VLSI Test Symposium 2018 and General Chair of European Test Symposium 2019. Prof. Tahoori was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award. He has received several best paper nominations and awards at various conferences and journals.