Syed Rafay Hasan (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. From 2006 to 2009, he was an Adjunct Faculty Member with Concordia University. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Research Associate with the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Since 2011, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers. His current research interests include hardware design security in the Internet of Things (IoT), hardware implementation of deep learning, deployment of convolution neural networks in the IoT edge devices, and hardware security issues due to adversarial learning. He received the SigmaXi Outstanding Research Award, the Faculty Research Award from Tennessee Technological University, the Kinslow Outstanding Research Paper Award from the College of Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, and the Summer Faculty Fellowship Award from the Air force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He has received research and teaching funding from NSF, ICT-funds UAE, AFRL, and Intel Inc. He has been a part of several funded research projects, as a PI or a co-PI, worth more than $1.1 million. He has been the Session Chair and a Technical Program Committee Member of several IEEE conferences, including ISCAS, ICCD, MWSCAS, and NEWCAS, and a regular reviewer for several IEEE Transactions and other journals.