Motta Taouil

Taouil is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering (CE) Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), Delft University of Technology (TU-Delft). His expertise is in hardware dependability and is also co-founder of Cognitive-IC, a start-up focusing on hardware dependability solutions.
Taouil received his Master of Science and Doctoral degree (with honors) from Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. During his PhD, he developed 3D-COSTAR which has been awarded with Hipeach Technology Transfer Award in 2015. After his PhD, he has been working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Computer Engineering Lab of the same university until 2018 where he subsequently was appointed as an assistant professor. During this period, he has been collaborating with several academic and industrial and partners such as ESA (the Netherlands), IMEC (Belgium) etc. His research focuses on hardware dependability (i.e., reliability, testability, hardware security). Taouil published over 100 journal and conference papers in a variety of topics, with a total citations of 1573, h-index=22 and i10-index=48. He has reviewed articles for many major journals and conferences and received several best papers awards in a variety of topics. Taouil has been involved in teaching several courses such as VLSI Test Technology & Reliability, Algorithms and Data Structures, System Programming in C and developed a new course on hardware security. Furthermore, he has been involved in many professional activities such as organizing conferences and summer schools, where he took several positions such as Program Chair, Publication Chair, Web Chair, etc.