Mehrdad Majzoobi

Founder · Engineer · Researcher

Mehrdad Majzoobi

I build privacy-first hardware and software — most recently Ubo, an open-source modular assistant pod. This is a selection of the projects, publications, and talks from my career.

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Projects

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Founder & Lead Engineer · 2021 — Present

Ubo

An open-source, modular smart assistant pod — privacy-first hardware and software built on a Raspberry Pi platform.

Ubo is a compact, hackable assistant pod designed around privacy and openness. The platform combines custom PCBs, a Raspberry Pi compute module, and a Python application stack with a Redux-style state architecture.

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  • Embedded Linux
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Academic Work

Publications

Selected, most-cited work in hardware security — physical unclonable functions (PUFs), true random number generation, and FPGA security. Full list and live metrics on Google Scholar.

2,906 Citations
18 h-index
19 i10-index
  1. 2008

    Lightweight Secure PUFs

    M. Majzoobi, F. Koushanfar, M. Potkonjak — IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

    486 citations Conference Paper
  2. 2012

    Slender PUF Protocol: A Lightweight, Robust, and Secure Authentication by Substring Matching

    M. Majzoobi, M. Rostami, F. Koushanfar, D. S. Wallach, S. Devadas — IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops

    316 citations Conference Paper
  3. 2008

    Testing Techniques for Hardware Security

    M. Majzoobi, F. Koushanfar, M. Potkonjak — IEEE International Test Conference (ITC)

    293 citations Conference Paper
  4. 2009

    Techniques for Design and Implementation of Secure Reconfigurable PUFs

    M. Majzoobi, F. Koushanfar, M. Potkonjak — ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS)

    287 citations Journal Article
  5. 2010

    FPGA PUF Using Programmable Delay Lines

    M. Majzoobi, F. Koushanfar, S. Devadas — IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)

    261 citations Conference Paper
  6. 2011

    FPGA-Based True Random Number Generation Using Circuit Metastability with Adaptive Feedback Control

    M. Majzoobi, F. Koushanfar, S. Devadas — Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)

    230 citations Conference Paper
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