Dr. Fathi Amsaad currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering (BIHFE) at Wright State University (WSU), Dayton, OH, USA. In December 2017, he received a Ph.D. in Engineering, with a specialization in Computer Science and Engineering from the Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) at the University of Toledo (UT), Toledo, Ohio, USA. He is the director of the Semiconductor Microelectronics Security, Assurance, Resilience, and Trust (SMART) Cybersecurity Research Lab at Joshi Research Center (JRS 490). His research interests lie in Cyber and Physical System Security, focusing on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), including Microelectronic Circuits and Hardware Protection, Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems Security (CHEST), Secure and Trusted PCBs, Additive Manufacturing Security (AMS), Secure SoC Design (including memory, microprocessor), Zero Trust Security for COTS components like VLSI/ASICs/FPGAs, Microelectronic Counterfeit Detection, Chip and System Authentication, Design Cloning/Overbuilding/Reverse Engineering, and Hardware Side Channel Attack (SCA) Countermeasures and Vulnerability Analysis.