Lilas Mhd Salem Alrahis

Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD Khalifa University

Research Areas: Design-for-Trust; Applied Machine Learning; Graph Neural Networks; Hardware Security


Lilas Alrahis received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Khalifa University, UAE, in 2016 and 2021, respectively. She is currently a Postdoctoral Associate with the Design for Excellence Lab, headed by Prof. Ozgur Sinanoglu, in the Division of Engineering, at the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), UAE. Her current research interests include Hardware Security, Design-for-Trust, Logic Locking, Applied Machine Learning, and Digital Logic Design.

Dr. Alrahis currently serves as Associate Editor of the Integration, the VLSI Journal. She is also a frequent reviewer for top journals, including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Access, and IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. She was a program committee member of the Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD2021 and DSD2022). Dr. Alrahis won the MWSCAS Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award in 2016 and the Best Paper Award at the Applied Research Competition held in conjunction with Cyber Security Awareness Week in 2019 and 2021.