Short CV
Fernando Moraes received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the M.Sc. degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Laboratoire d’Informatique, Robotique et Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), France, in 1994, with the distinction Très Honorable avec Félicitations du Jury. He has been a Full Professor at PUCRS since 2002, where he coordinated the Computer Engineering Course (2001–2006) and the Computer Science Graduate Program (2008–2010). He has advised 33 M.Sc. and 20 Ph.D. students, and co-advised 4 M.Sc. and 3 Ph.D. students. He served as Invited Professor at the Université de Montpellier in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2017, and leads cooperation programs with French institutions, including RAISON and FORCINT. He maintains close cooperation with industry, coordinating projects with DATACOM and with EnSilica on the SoC-WiMed wireless medical-monitoring chip. He has authored or co-authored over 60 journal articles and 290 conference papers on VLSI design, covering many-cores, networks-on-chip (NoCs), RISC-V hardware acceleration, and machine-learning-driven security; one of these, "HERMES: An Infrastructure for Low Area Overhead Packet-Switching Networks on Chip", has over 800 citations. His current research interests include security and reliability in NoC-based many-cores, RISC-V instruction-set extensions for cryptography and machine learning, and hardware Trojan detection using lightweight ML models. Dr. Moraes serves on the program committees of SBCCI, ISVLSI, NOCS, and DATE, and has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs since 2024. He is a member of SBC and SBMICRO, and a Senior Member of IEEE. [July 2026].
