After KAUST Academy
Shaden is a computer engineering student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and made the Dean's List in December 2025. Shaden represented KAUST's Shaheen-3 team at SC25 in November 2025 and was a research intern in Carnegie Mellon's REUSE program in summer 2026.
Summer project
Cybersecurity Specialization · Cohort 2025
Beyond-Transistors: Next Generation Hardware Security Primitves Using Spintronic Devices
The primary objective of this project is to explore the potential of spintronic devices as a foundation for next-generation hardware security primitives. It aims to understand the limitations of traditional CMOS-based hardware in addressing emerging security threats and to investigate how spin-based devices offer inherent advantages like non-volatility, variability, and tamper resistance. The project will also focus on designing and analyzing basic hardware security primitives, such as True Random Number Generators (TRNGs), Hardware Watermarks and Logic Locking.
Mentor: Divyanshu & Selma Amara
With KAUST Academy
- Cohort 2025
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Cybersecurity Summer School
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