Farinaz Koushanfar

23.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
254 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Farinaz Koushanfar is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Farinaz Koushanfar has authored 254 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 113 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 106 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Farinaz Koushanfar's work include Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security (80 papers), Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis (48 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (35 papers). Farinaz Koushanfar is often cited by papers focused on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security (80 papers), Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis (48 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (35 papers). Farinaz Koushanfar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Farinaz Koushanfar's co-authors include Miodrag Potkonjak, Mohammad Tehranipoor, Mani Srivastava, Srinivas Devadas, Saro Meguerdichian, Mehrdad Majzoobi, Igor L. Markov, Jarrod A. Roy, Masoud Rostami and Yousra Alkabani and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Farinaz Koushanfar

241 papers receiving 11.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Coverage problems in wireless ad-hoc sensor networks

2002 1.2k citations Farinaz Koushanfar, Miodrag Potkonjak et al. profile →
A Survey of Hardware Trojan Taxonomy and Detection

2010 948 citations Farinaz Koushanfar et al. profile →
Physical Unclonable Functions and Applications: A Tutorial

2014 893 citations Farinaz Koushanfar et al. profile →
Exposure in wireless Ad-Hoc sensor networks

2001 521 citations Farinaz Koushanfar, Miodrag Potkonjak et al. profile →
A Primer on Hardware Security: Models, Methods, and Metrics

2014 443 citations Farinaz Koushanfar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Farinaz Koushanfar United States	46	6.6k	6.0k	3.2k	3.1k	2.3k	254	11.5k
Ramesh Karri United States	53	6.6k 1.0×	6.8k 1.1×	3.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	2.1k 0.9×	418	10.8k
Miodrag Potkonjak United States	53	6.7k 1.0×	6.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.5×	5.7k 1.9×	1.0k 0.4×	419	12.9k
Hai Li United States	52	6.8k 1.0×	1.9k 0.3×	2.5k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	467	10.1k
Yier Jin United States	37	3.1k 0.5×	3.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	987 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	214	5.7k
Anand Raghunathan United States	61	8.4k 1.3×	6.1k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	4.5k 1.5×	184 0.1×	400	14.0k
Francky Catthoor Belgium	46	5.5k 0.8×	5.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.3×	4.9k 1.6×	226 0.1×	892	11.3k
Muhammad Shafique Germany	42	4.1k 0.6×	3.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.3×	2.2k 0.7×	162 0.1×	448	7.3k
Xiaobo Sharon Hu United States	47	5.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	286 0.1×	492	9.0k
Massoud Pedram United States	64	14.0k 2.1×	7.6k 1.3×	1.5k 0.5×	5.0k 1.6×	121 0.1×	887	19.7k
Jörg Henkel Germany	42	4.9k 0.7×	5.2k 0.9×	739 0.2×	3.7k 1.2×	65 0.0×	546	9.1k

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Chang, Jung-Woo, et al.. (2025). Magmaw: Modality-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks on Machine Learning-Based Wireless Communication Systems. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Huili, Hossein Fereidooni, Jan König, et al.. (2023). Smarter Contracts: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts with Deep Transfer Learning. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 37 indexed citations

Lončar, Vladimir, et al.. (2023). Tailor : Altering Skip Connections for Resource-Efficient Inference. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. 17(1). 1–23. 4 indexed citations

Lim, Jeong-Min, Young Geun Kim, Sung Woo Chung, Farinaz Koushanfar, & Joonho Kong. (2023). Near-Memory Computing With Compressed Embedding Table for Personalized Recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. 12(3). 938–951. 1 indexed citations

Lončar, Vladimir, et al.. (2023). Adapting Skip Connections for Resource-Efficient FPGA Inference. 229–229. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinqiao, Mohammad Samragh, Siam U. Hussain, Ke Huang, & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2023). Scalable Binary Neural Network Applications in Oblivious Inference. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. 23(3). 1–18.

Xiong, Wenjie, Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, André Schaller, et al.. (2023). Abusing Commodity DRAMs in IoT Devices to Remotely Spy on Temperature. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 18. 2991–3005. 3 indexed citations

Javaheripi, Mojan, Mohammad Samragh, & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2021). AutoRank: Automated Rank Selection for Effective Neural Network Customization. IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. 11(4). 611–619.

Samragh, Mohammad, Mojan Javaheripi, & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2020). EncoDeep. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. 19(6). 1–29. 7 indexed citations

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Javaheripi, Mojan, Mohammad Samragh, Bita Darvish Rouhani, Tara Javidi, & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2020). CuRTAIL: ChaRacterizing and Thwarting AdversarIal Deep Learning. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 18(2). 736–752. 6 indexed citations

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Riazi, M. Sadegh, Mohammad Samragh, Hao Chen, et al.. (2019). XONN: XNOR-based oblivious deep neural network inference. USENIX Security Symposium. 1501–1518. 36 indexed citations

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Dubnov, Shlomo, et al.. (2018). Adversarial Reprogramming of Sequence Classification Neural Networks.. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Mirhoseini, Azalia, Ebrahim M. Songhori, Bita Darvish Rouhani, & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2015). Flexible Transformations For Learning Big Data. 453–454. 2 indexed citations

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Munir, Arslan & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2014). D2Cyber: a design automation tool for dependable cybercars. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 58.

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Markov, Igor L., et al.. (2013). ClockPUF: physical unclonable functions based on clock networks. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 422–427. 12 indexed citations

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Mirhoseini, Azalia, Ebrahim M. Songhori, & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2013). Automated checkpointing for enabling intensive applications on energy harvesting devices. 27–32. 15 indexed citations

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Mirhoseini, Azalia & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2011). Learning to manage combined energy supply systems. 229–234. 5 indexed citations

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Alkabani, Yousra, Farinaz Koushanfar, & Miodrag Potkonjak. (2007). Remote activation of ICs for piracy prevention and digital right management. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 674–677. 106 indexed citations

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Koushanfar, Farinaz, Miodrag Potkonjak, & Alberto Sangiovanni‐Vincentelli. (2007). Fault Tolerance in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks. Center for Embedded Network Sensing. 33 indexed citations

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Alkabani, Yousra & Farinaz Koushanfar. (2007). Active hardware metering for intellectual property protection and security. USENIX Security Symposium. 20. 218 indexed citations

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