Raum: N1013ZG

Short CV

Michael Pehl received his Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in 2012 from the Technische Universität München. His thesis with title "Discrete Sizing of Analog Integrated Circuits" was carried out at the Institute for Electronic Design Automation and focused on the development of optimization algorithms for yield-aware analog sizing considering discrete design parameters. For this work he received the Kurt-Fischer Prize in 2013.  He habilitated in the area of hardware security in 2024 with a thesis entitled "Design, Evaluation, and Application of Security Primitives that are Based on Hardware-Intrinsic Features".
Since 2012 he is with the Institute for Security in Information Technology where he works as an Akademischer Oberrat and holds the position of an Adjunct Teaching Professor (Privatdozent). He leads a research group on Hardware-Intrinsic Security and focuses his current research on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). Further research interests also include topics like side channel analysis and tools to support secure design. He teaches a number of different courses as stated below. His research interests include PUFs, TRNGs, Side-Channel Analysis and Fault Injection and corresponding countermeasures, and secure design. He is member of the Center of Competence for Design of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DECS) at TUM. From 2014 until 2022 he served as a board member of the graduate center of the previous Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. In 2024 he developed the study program Master in Microelectronics and Chip Design at TUM, for which he is now the responsible academic study direction coordinator. Since 2024, he is also member of the Aptitude Assessment Commission of the Profession Profile Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

Teaching Activities

Winter Term	Summer Term
Blockpraktikum C++	Blockpraktikum C++
Hauptseminar Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik	Hauptseminar Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Seminar on Security in Information Technology	Circuit Design for Security
Praktikum ASIC Design von Hardwarebeschleunigern für RISC-V	Praktikum ASIC Design von Hardwarebeschleunigern für RISC-V
Physical Unclonable Functions

 

Current lecturing activities outside TUM:

• Since 2021: "Circuit Design Fundamentals" in the Bachelor program Electronics and Data Engineering at the Singapore Institute of Technology in Singapore.
• 2024: "Embedded Systems Security" in the Masterprogram Cyber-Sicherheit at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich.

Research Related Activities

Activities as Reviewer and in Program Committees

• Associated Editor of the IEEE Transactions on  on Information Forensics & Security

• Program Co-Chair of COSADE 2023

• Program Committee Member of DATE 2025 and 2024, HOST 2025, SPACE 2024, AsianHOST 2024 and 2023, COSADE 2024 and 2022, Trudevice Workshop 2020 and 2016

• Reviewer for IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, and others

• Awarded as outstanding reviewer at ICASSP 2022 and DATE 2024.