Mihalis Maniatakos is an Assistant Professor of ECE at NYU Abu Dhabi and a Research Assistant Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is the Director of the MoMA Laboratory (nyuad.nyu.edu/momalab). He received his Ph.D. in 2012 from the Electrical Engineering department at Yale University. His research interests, funded by industrial partners and the US government, include robust microprocessor architectures, privacy-preserving computation, as well as industrial control systems security. He has authored several publications in IEEE transactions and conferences, holds patents on privacy- preserving data processing, and serves in the technical program committee for various conferences. Mihalis is currently the faculty lead for the Embedded Security challenge held yearly at various NYU global sites.