The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) has named Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., the Director of Research Programs of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, a UFRF Professor for 2020-2023.

Dr. Mishra’s research interests include embedded and cyber-physical systems; energy-aware computing; formal verification; hardware security and trust; post-silicon debug; and system-on-chip validation. He is a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, and a faculty member of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research.

He is the lead inventor of  Maximization of Side-Channel Sensitivity for Trojan Detection technology, available for licensing via UF Innovate. Detecting hardware Trojans is critical to ensure the security & trustworthiness of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Dr. Mishra and Dr. Yangdi Lyu developed reliable hardware Trojan detection using side-channel analysis to ensure secure SoCs.

Dr. Mishra is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a Senior Member of IEEE, and served as an ACM Distinguished Speaker during 2016-2019. He has published seven books and 25 book chapters, has eight patents/copyrights, and more than 150 research articles in premier international journals and conferences. He received the UF Term Professorship twice, in 2017 and 2019, and he received the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award in 2019.