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Farhad Merchant, Ph. D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Room: 501
+49 241 80-27630
+49 241 80-28306
farhad.merchant(at)ice.rwth-aachen.de
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Biography

Farhad Merchant received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India), in 2016. His Ph.D. thesis title was "Algorithm-Architecture Co-design for Dense Linear Algebra Computations." He received the DAAD fellowship during his PhD. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from March 2016 to December 2016. In December 2016, he moved to Corporate Research in Robert Bosch in Bangalore as a Researcher, where he worked on numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. He joined Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems, RWTH Aachen University, in December 2017 as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Chair for Software for Systems on Silicon. Farhad is the recipient of the HiPEAC technology transfer award in 2019.

Research Interests

Hardware Security
Hardware Assisted Security
Computer Architecture
Performance Modeling
Computer Arithmetic

Jobs

Students looking for BSc/MSc/PhD thesis or a HiWi job are suggested to make an appointment via email for personal visit.

Student Assistants

Daniyar Kizatov

Past Students

Milos Bratic
Jure Vreca (master)
Lukas Juenger (master)
Harshit Srivastava (bachelor)
Abhishek Adhave (bachelor)
Pankti Shah (bachelor - DAAD)
Marwin Kirchhofs (bachelor)
Karl Sturm (bachelor)
Mohil Desai (bachelor - DAAD)
Masoom Panda (bachelor - DAAD)
Kirthihan Yasotharan (master)

Publications

Publications from Oct/ 2022 to 2020

Singh, S., Bodapati, S., Patkar, S., Leupers, R., Chattopadhyay, A. and Merchant, F.: PA-PUF: A Novel Priority Arbiter PUF, in VLSI-SoC, Oct. 2022, accepted for publication ©2022 IEEE
Moussavi, E., Šišejković, D., Singh, A., Kizatov, D., Leupers, R., Ingebrandt, S., Pachauri, V. and Merchant, F.: A Temperature Independent Readout Circuit for ISFET-Based Sensor Application, in IEEE LATS, Sep. 2022, accepted for publication
Merchant, F.: Security as an Important Ingredient in Neuromorphic Engineering, in IEEE ISVLSI, Jul. 2022, accepted for publication ©2022 IEEE
Moussavi, E., Šišejković, D., Brings, F., Kizatov, D., Singh, A., Xuan , T. V., Ingebrandt, S., Leupers, R., Pachauri, V. and Merchant, F.: pHGen: A pH-Based Key Generation Mechanism Using ISFETs, in IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), Jun. 2022, accepted for publication ©2022 IEEE
Gansen, M., Lou, J., Freye, F., Gemmeke, T. , Merchant, F., Zeyer, A., Zeineldeen, M., Schlüter, R. and Fan, X.: Discrete Steps towards Approximate Computing, in ISQED , Apr. 2022, 10.1109/ISQED54688.2022.9806215 ©2022 IEEE
Galicia, M., Merchant, F. and Leupers, R.: A Parallel SystemC Virtual Platform for Neuromorphic Architectures, in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) 2022, Apr. 2022, 10.1109/ISQED54688.2022.9806235 ©2022 IEEE
Staudigl, F., Al Indari, H., Schön, D., Šišejković, D., Merchant, F., Joseph, J. M., Rana, V., Menzel, S. and Leupers, R.: NeuroHammer: Inducing Bit-Flips in Memristive Crossbar Memories, in Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Mar. 2022, 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774651 ©2022 IEEE
Galicia, M., Menzel, S., Merchant, F., Müller, M., Chen, H.-Y. , Zhao, Q.-T. , Cüppers, F. , Jalil, A. R. , Shu, Q. , Schüffelgen, P., Mussler, G., Funck, C. , Lanius, C. , Wiefels, S. , von Witzleben, M. , Bengel, C. , Kopperberg, N. , Ziegler, T. , Walied, R. , Krüger, A. , Pöhls, L. , Dittmann, R. , Hoffmann-Eifert, S. , Rana, V., Grützmacher, D. , Wuttig, M. , Wouters, D. , Vescan, A. , Gemmeke, T. , Knoch, J. , Lemme, M. , Leupers, R. and Waser, R.: NEUROTEC I: Neuro-inspired Artificial Intelligence Technologies for the Electronics of the Future, in Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Mar. 2022, 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774755 ©2022 IEEE
Reimann, L. M., Hanel, L., Šišejković, D., Merchant, F. and Leupers, R.: QFlow: Quantitative Information Flow for Security-Aware Hardware Design in Verilog, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) , pp. 603-607, Oct. 2021, 10.1109/ICCD53106.2021.00097 ©2021 IEEE
Staudigl, F., Merchant, F. and Leupers, R.: A Survey of Neuromorphic Computing-in-Memory: Architectures, Simulators and Security, in IEEE Design & Test, Sep. 2021, 10.1109/MDAT.2021.3102013 ©2021 IEEE
Šišejković, D., Merchant, F., Reimann, L. M. and Leupers, R.: Deceptive Logic Locking for Hardware Integrity Protection against Machine Learning Attacks, in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Jul. 2021, ISSN: 1937-4151, 10.1109/TCAD.2021.3100275 ©2021 IEEE
Šišejković, D., Merchant, F., Reimann, L. M., Srivastava, H., Hallawa, A. and Leupers, R.: Challenging the Security of Logic Locking Schemes in the Era of Deep Learning: A Neuroevolutionary Approach, in ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), Vol. 17, Association for Computing Machinery, p. 26, May. 2021, ISSN: 1550-4832, 10.1145/3431389
Saxena, V., Reddy, A., Jonathan, N., Gustafson, J. L., Sangeeth, N., Leupers, R. and Merchant, F.: Brightening the Optical Flow through Posit Arithmetic, in International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Apr. 2021, 10.1109/ISQED51717.2021.9424360 ©2021 IEEE
Alouani, I., BEN KHALIFA, A., Merchant, F. and Leupers, R.: An Investigation on Inherent Robustness of Posit Data Representation, in Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), pp. 276-281, Feb. 2021, 10.1109/VLSID51830.2021.00052 ©2021 IEEE
Rai, S., Garg, S., Pilato, C., Herdt, V., Moussavi, E., Šišejković, D., Karri, R., Drechsler, R., Merchant, F. and Kumar, A.: Vertical IP Protection of the Next-Generation Devices: Quo Vadis?, in Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), IEEE, 2021, 10.23919/DATE51398.2021.9474132
Polian, I., Altmann, F., Arul, T., Boit, C., Brederlaw, R., Davi, L., Drechsler, R., Du, N., Eisenbarth, T., Güneysu, T., Hermann, S., Hiller, M., Leupers, R., Merchant, F., Mussenbrock, T., Katzenbeisser, S., Kumar, A., Kunz, W., Mikolajick, T., Pachauri, V., Seifert, J.-P., Torres, F. S. and Trommer, J.: Nano Security: From Nano-Electronics to Secure Systems, in Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), IEEE, 2021, 10.23919/DATE51398.2021.9474187
Merchant, F., Šišejković, D., Reimann, L. M., Yasotharan, K., Grass, T. and Leupers, R.: ANDROMEDA: An FPGA Based RISC-V MPSoC Exploration Framework, in Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), 2021, 10.1109/VLSID51830.2021.00051 ©2021 IEEE
Šišejković, D., Reimann, L. M., Moussavi, E., Merchant, F. and Leupers, R.: Logic Locking at the Frontiers of Machine Learning: A Survey on Developments and Opportunities, in IFIP/IEEE 29th International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC), 2021, 10.1109/VLSI-SoC53125.2021.9606979 ©2021 IEEE
Nambi, S., Ullah, S., Siva Satyendra, S., Lohana, A., Merchant, F. and Kumar, A.: ExPAN(N)D: Exploring Posits for EfficientArtificial Neural Network Design inFPGA-based Systems, in IEEE Access, Vol. 9, 2021, 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3098730 ©2021 IEEE
Guntoro, A., De La Parra, C., Merchant, F., De Dinechin, F., Gustafson, J. L., Langhammer, M., Leupers, R. and Sangeeth, N.: Next Generation Arithmetic for Edge Computing, in Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 1357-1365, 2020, 10.23919/DATE48585.2020.9116196 ©2020 IEEE

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