13th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society

Varun Khemani, Ph.D. Candidate, CALCE/ University of Maryland

Varun Khemani will present at the 13th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society (phm2021.phmsociety.org), which will be held virtually between Nov 29 and Dec 2, 2021. Varun will be presenting on Nov 29 at 15:00 EST his paper "Khemani, V., Azarian, M., & Pecht, M. (2021). Prognostics and Secure Health Management (PSHM) of Electronic Systems in Zero-Trust Environment. Annual Conference of the PHM Society, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.36001/phmconf.2021.v13i1.3006"

This research addresses hardware security in electronics since outsourcing in the fabrication of electronics has made them susceptible to the insertion of hardware threats in untrusted manufacturing facilities. This research proposes an extension of the PHM framework of IEEE 1856 to the PSHM framework in order to detect hardware threats in electronics in real-time.

Bio: Varun Khemani received his BE degree in Instrumentation Engineering from the University of Mumbai and his MS in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering at the University of Maryland. He has worked for Stanley, Black and Decker, Towson, MD, USA, and Aker, Mumbai, India. His research interests include reliability and cybersecurity of electronic circuits, AI, and its applications to safety and reliability. He’s a student member of IEEE, ASME, and the PHM Society. He is certified as a Functional Safety Professional as per IEC 61511. He was the recipient of the ASME Petroleum Division Scholarship in 2016.

Please contact Dr. Michael Azarian for more information.