Nikhil Rangarajan, PhD
Senior Engineer - TD NAND Device, Micron Technology
I am a Senior Engineer in the NAND division at Micron Semiconductor, Singapore.
Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE. I have Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from New York University, NY, USA, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Trichy, India.
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Research Interests
My research interests include spintronics, nanoelectronics, device physics, and hardware security. Some of the topics I have worked on include: (1) pathfinding and developing new emerging logic and memory technologies, (2) exploring the hardware security implications of emerging devices and novel materials, and (3) investigating the security vulnerabilities and potential threats in new computing paradigms like neuromorphic computing and approximate computing.
Selected Publications
Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Johann Knechtel, Shaloo Rakheja, Ozgur Sinanoglu. “The Next Era in Hardware Security: A Perspective on Emerging Technologies for Secure Electronics.” Springer Nature. URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030857912
Dinesh Rajasekharan, Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Yogesh Singh Chauhan. “SCANet: Securing the Weights with Superparamagnetic-MTJ Crossbar Array Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (accepted 2021).
Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Johann Knechtel, Ramesh Karri, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Opening the Doors to Dynamic Camouflaging: Harnessing the Power of Polymorphic Devices.” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2020).