Dr Basel Halak

Secure Hardware Design

I lead this master-level module, it cover security and trust from hardware prespectives.It also discusses the vulnerabilities of modern Systems on Chip design flow and how these can become legitimate security threats such as hardware trojans and physical attacks.

Cryptography

I lead this master-level module, it covers the mathematics, techniques, and applications of modern cryptography, it also covers the history of code making and code breaking, and draw lessons for the future from the mistakes and successes of the past.

Digital IC and Systems Design

I teach this third year module, it provides a coherent introduction to digital VLSI design in CMOS, and to give students a broad understanding of the main principles required for system-on-chip design. Advanced techniques such as timing analysis and asynchronous design are also introduced..

ELEC2221 Digital Systems and Signal Processing at University of Southampton Malaysia Campus

I have tought the digital design part on this second year course, it introduces techniques of designing robust, testable sequential digital systems, writing and debugging synthesisable modules in a hardware description language (SystemVerilog) and verifying the functionality of those modules by simulation. It provides practical experience in the design and diagnosis of sequential digital systems.

Embedded Systems Design and IoT Technologies: Kazakh-British Technical University

I led this master-level module, it covers the principels of Embedded Systems Design with particular focus on relevant computer architectures such as those by ARM and MIPS.

Introduction on Embedded Systems Security:  University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

I led this master-level module, it covers the the principles of designing secure embedded systems with reference to new emerging industrial design framework  such as ARM PSA and gives detailed information on emerging security premitives such as physically unclonable functions, it aslo covers a number of related topics including Hardware Trojan and IC-counterfiet. 

Hardware-based Security Solutions for the Internet of Things: IEEE Tutorial at Khalifa University, UAE

This tutorial discusses the design challenges of secure IoT systems and how to use hardware security to tackle those challenges, it also explains explain the design principles of Physically Unclonable Functions. 

Dr Basel Halak is the director of the embedded systems and IoT program at the University of Southampton, a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern ,a visiting professor at the Kazakh-British Technical University, an industrial fellow of the royal academy of engineering , and a national teaching fellow of the Advance Higher Education(HE) Academy . Dr Halak's publications include over 80-refereed conference and journal papers, and authored three books, including the first textbook on Physically Unclonable Functions. His research expertise include evaluation of security of hardware devices, development of appropriate countermeasures, the development of mathematical formalisms of reliability issues in CMOS circuits (e.g. crosstalk, radiation, ageing), and the use of fault tolerance techniques to improve the robustness of electronics systems against such issues.. Dr Halak lectures on digital design, Secure Hardware and Cryptography, supervises a number of MSc and PhD students, and is the ECS Exchange Coordinators. He is also leading European Masters in Embedded Computing Systems (EMECS) , a two year course run in collaboration with Kaiserslautern University in Germany and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (electronics and communication). Dr Halak serves on several technical program committees such as HOST, IEEE DATE, DAC, IVSW, ICCCA, ICCCS, MTV and EWME. He is an associate editor of IEEE access and an editor of the IET circuit devices and system journal. He is also a member of the hardware security-working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Prizes

• National Teaching Fellow Advance(HE) Higher Education (2020)
• Industrial Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering (2019)
• The Vice-Chancellor Teaching Award (2016)
• National Teaching Fellow Advance(HE) Higher Education United Kingdom (2020)
• Industrial Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering (2019)
• The Vice-Chancellor Teaching Award (2016)
• National Teaching Fellow Advance(HE) Higher Education United Kingdom (2020)
• Industrial Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering (2019)
• The Vice-Chancellor Teaching Award (2016)