I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University. I received my Ph.D. (2017) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut and obtained my MS (2013) and BS (2011) degrees in Computer Hardware Engineering from Iran. My research team and I work on various hardware security-related projects from hardware foundation to applied Machine Learning in hardware security. Topics include hardware security primitives, AI for hardware security, side-channel analysis, hardware obfuscation, applied cryptography, and system security.

I am the leading author/co-author of 50+ peer-reviewed conference proceedings, journal articles, and book chapters as well as mentoring 40+ graduate and undergraduate students for their research thesis and senior design (capstone) projects. I served as the organizing and technical program committee member of many IEEE/ACM conferences such as ISQED, GLSVLSI, DAC, ICCAD, DATE, CODES+ISSS, ISVLSI, VDEC, iSES, etc. I am actively involved in Women in Engineering-related conferences/workshops/committees as a chair, co-chair, and session chair. I served as session chair and moderator at the Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference 2020 Women/Minority in Cybersecurity (WMiCS).  I received the “Best Technical Paper Award” at the 30th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID) & 16th International Conference on Embedded Systems in 2017.

• Office:                AERB 246
• E-mail:               sara dot tehranipoor(at) mail (dot) wvu (dot) edu
• Research Lab:  AERB B12
• Phone:               (304) 293-9682
• Webpage:          http://tehranipoor.org
• Address:           1220 Evansdale Drive, Morgantown, WV 26506-6109