Professor Fatemeh Ganji studies interdisciplinary approaches covering two main angles of hardware security, namely machine learning and cryptography, for the design and evaluation of security-critical hardware, including AI accelerators. Her work helped lead to WPI installing a cybersecurity microscope that is the first of its kind in New England. She is helping develop a research center at WPI focused on semiconductor cybersecurity. The goal of her research is to help the industry secure and safeguard semiconductors, such as computer chips, from tampering, counterfeiting, and physical attacks to ensure the reliability of semiconductors used in critical industries. To combat the impact of such attacks against semiconductor intellectual properties (IPs) such as AI accelerators, she also applied privacy-preserving technologies. Her studies have revealed critical shortcomings in some of these technologies. Her work has led to her research being funded by many foundations, namely the National Science Foundation, the European Union, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the German Federal t