Dr.-Ing. Saleh Mulhem

Research interests

Saleh Mulhem leads the research field Dependable Computing at the ITI, with the groups Secure Computing and Reliable Computing. He develops hardware-based solutions for trustworthy computing: secure and safe processors, efficient cryptographic accelerators, new hardware-based device identities, and verifying the function and security of whole computing platforms.

• Dependable computing platforms and security by design
• Hardware security: hardware Trojans, side channels, hardware roots of trust
• Trustworthy AI accelerators and post-quantum cryptography in hardware
• Reliability in electronics and design for testability

Doctoral researchers

• Christian Ewert: hardware root of trust design
• Andrija Neskovic: side-channel analysis of computing systems
• Daniel Najork: processing on encrypted data
• Tavia Plattenteich: power estimation of computing systems
• Melf Fritsch: post-quantum cryptography accelerator design
• Leon Dietrich: post-quantum cryptography accelerator design
• Mouadh Ayache: design for testability and hardware trust (external)

Theses

Topics for Bachelor's and Master's theses and research internships include:

• Integrated circuit design for low-power computing systems
• Integrated circuit power estimation at netlist level
• AI chip design for embedded systems
• Reliability evaluation of embedded robotics
• Reliability and security of in-memory computing
• Trustworthy and dependable AI accelerator design
• Explainable AI methods
• Efficient post-quantum cryptography such as Dilithium or Falcon, also as hardware accelerators
• Detecting hardware Trojans
• Secure processor design and implementation
• Designing hardware roots of trust
• Reliability testing of integrated circuits
• Ultra-lightweight cryptography in practice
• S-boxes resilient to side-channel attacks

There are further topics in dependable computing, trustworthy AI acceleration, design for testability, design for trust and hardware security. Since 2021 Saleh Mulhem has supervised more than 30 Bachelor's and Master's theses. If you are interested, send him a short email.

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More publications

Earlier publications and patents are in his Google Scholar profile.