Mark Tehranipoor, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), recently won the IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award for his outstanding leadership in computer science and engineering education.
Presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the award recognizes university educators who display extraordinary leadership in hardware security education, development of large-scale training programs, composition of pioneering textbooks and development of novel curriculum
Tehranipoor has developed and taught many new courses throughout his career, including SOC Design and Test, VLSI Design Verification and Testing and Hardware Hacking during his time at the University of Connecticut. In 2008 at UConn, he created Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust, the first comprehensive hardware security and trust course. He wrote the textbook — also a first on the subject — for that class, as well.
He brought that class with him to UF in 2015 and, years later, earned the UF College of Engineering 2020 Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award.
Tehranipoor also wrote “Hardware Security: A Hands-on Learning Approach.” Both books, he noted, have been translated into multiple languages, downloaded more than 150,000 times and used in classrooms worldwide. He has published 20 books, 35 book chapters and more than 700 conference/journal papers.
The IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award also speaks to Tehranipoor’s leadership of ECE, where he serves as the Sachio Semmoto ECE department chair and the Intel Charles E. Young Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity.
“Dr. Tehranipoor’s work has elevated both the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the broader engineering community by establishing hardware security as a critical area of study,” said Warren Dixon, Ph.D., interim dean for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. “This award recognizes not only his scholarship, but his extraordinary commitment to educating the engineers who will protect the hardware systems that power our world.”
In 2010, Tehranipoor co-founded Trust-Hub. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Trust-Hub portal provides professionals and educators resources for software, hardware, books, tools and hardware-security solutions. The Hub has been accessed by researchers from more than 70 countries.
“I am deeply honored to receive the IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award,” he said. “This recognition reflects a collective effort to establish hardware security as a foundational discipline and to educate and inspire the next generation of engineers who will secure the technologies that underpin our world.”