Short Biography

Yiorgos is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, which he joined in July 2011. Prior to that, he spent 10.5 years as a faculty of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science at Yale University. He holds a Ph.D. (2001) and an M.S. (1997) in Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, and a Diploma of Engineering (1995) in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece.

Yiorgos is a Co-Founder and Site-PI of the NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center on Hardware and Embedded System Security and Trust (NSF CHEST I/UCRC), as well as the Leader of the Safety, Security and Healthcare Thrust of the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) and the Director of the Trusted and RELiable Architectures (TRELA) Research Laboratory. His main research interests lie in the applications of machine learning and statistical analysis in the design of trusted and reliable integrated circuits and systems, with particular emphasis in the analog/RF domain. He is also investigating hardware-based malware detection, forensics and reliability methods in modern microprocessors, security primitives in synthetic biology, as well as on-die learning and novel computational modalities using emerging technologies. His research activities have been supported by NSF, NIH, SRC, ARO, AFRL, AFWERX, DARPA, DoE/Honeywell, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, KBR/Wyle, IBM, LSI, Intel, AMS, Advantest, Qualcomm and TI.

Yiorgos served as the 2016-2017 general chair and the 2013-2014 program chair of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium as well as the 2010-2012 program chair of the Test Technology Educational Program (TTEP). He also serves or has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, the IEEE Design & Test periodical and the Springer Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. He has also served as a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers and the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, and as a topic coordinator and/or program committee member for several IEEE and ACM conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a recipient of the 2006 Sheffield Distinguished Teaching Award, a recipient of the Best Paper Award from the 2013 Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'13) conference, the 2015 VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'15) and the 2022 IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems (DCAS'22) conference, a recipient of the Best Hardware Demonstration Award from the 2016 and 2018 Symposia on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST’16 and HOST’18), and a recipent of the 2020 Faculty Research Award from the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.

Contact Information:


Mailing Address:
ECE Department
Mailstop: EC33
UT Dallas
800 W. Campbell Rd.
Richardson,
TX 75080-3021
USA

Office Location:
ECSN 4.302

Office Hours:
By Appointment

TRELA Lab Location:
ECSN 4.618 &
ECSN 4.624

Tel:
+1 (972) 883-4360

Fax:
+1 (972) 883-2710

E-mail:
yiorgos.makris@utdallas.edu

Web:
http://www.utdallas.edu/~yiorgos.makris

Administrative Assistant:
Ms. Marlene Nguyen

E-mail:
marlene.nguyen@utdallas.edu

Tel:
+1 (972) 883-4242

Fax:
+1 (972) 883-2710

Recent News:

02/23 - NSF: Profs. Bleris, Jones and Makris received $300K NSF grant to secure DNA storage access through CRISPR-PUFs.
08/22 - NSF/ANR: Prof. Makris received $624K NSF grant to study impact and mitigation of errors in analog neural networks.
07/22 - NSF TTP: Profs. Makris and Sechen awarded $900K NSF grant to transition their TRAP technology to practice.
06/22 - Press Release: UT Dallas published a News Article on Prof. Bleris' and Prof. Makris' Genetic PUF technology.
05/22 - DNA PUFs: Manuscript on Genetic Physical Unclonable Functions appears at Science Advances.
04/22 - NSF RINGS: $1M project on Malicious Hardware Detection in NextG Wireless Networks announced.
11/21 - Top Pick: TCAD'15 manuscript on Statistical Recycled IC Detection selected as Top Pick in HES
07/21 - Press Release: UT Dallas published a News Article on the NSF CHEST I/UCRC, which Prof. Makris co-founded
05/21 - Ph.D. Thesis Award: Dr. Gaurav Rajavendra Reddy's Thesis received the David Daniel Thesis Award in ECS
11/20 - Top Pick: DAC'15 manuscript on Golden-Chip Free Hardware Trojan Detection selected as Top Pick in HES
04/20 - Erik Jonsson School Faculty Research Award: Prof. Makris recognized for Outstanding Research Contributions