Abdul Manan Sheikh (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Com- munication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India, in 2003, the M.Tech. degree in Electronics Design and Technology from the National Institute of Technology Calicut, India, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2026. He worked as an RTL Design Engineer with Innovative Integration, California, USA, and Enventure Technologies, Bengaluru, India, where he contributed to IP core development and memory interface design for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) used in real-time applications. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at A’Sharqiyah University, Ibra, Oman. His research interests include FPGA-based system design, hardware security, physical unclonable functions (PUFs), embedded systems, artificial intelli- gence for hardware security, and Internet of Things (IoT) security. He is a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi, India.