Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
United States

Hiren J. Patel is a Computer Engineering PhD candidate at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2003, and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in VLSI from AFIT in 2009. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering society. His current research interests include physical layer exploitation, side-channel analysis for cryptographic systems, pattern recognition and high performance computing.