Dr.-Ing. Saleh Mulhem

Research interests

Saleh Mulhem leads the research field of Trustworthy Computing at the ITI. His research interests focus on:

• Trustworthy computing platforms: secure, reliable RISC-V processors and AI accelerators,  post-quantum cryptography,  and hardware root-of-trust design. 
•  EDA tools for hardware security verification: hardware Trojan detection, side-channel evaluation, and fault-propagation assessment.   
• Computation on encrypted data:   Fully Homomorphic Encryption for ML.  

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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