Baleegh Ahmad


I'm a PhD candidate at NYU Tandon. I work at the Center for Cybersecurity in the ECE department. My research focuses on detecting and fixing bugs in Hardware Design Languages.

Before doing my PhD, I got my Bachelors at NYU Abu Dhabi in Electrical Engineering.


You can read about my work here: Research 

Email: ba1283@nyu.edu

Recent Updates

[Feb '24]

Our paper "On Hardware Security Bug Code Fixes By Prompting Large Language Models" got accepted at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

[Jan '24]

Our paper "Verigen: A large language model for verilog code generation" got accepted at ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.

[Nov '22]

Our paper "Benchmarking Large Language Models for Automated Verilog RTL Code Generation" got nominated for Best Paper at DATE 2023.

[Oct '22]

Presented our paper "Don’t CWEAT It: Toward CWE Analysis Techniques in Early Stages of Hardware Design" at ICCAD 2022.

[Aug '22]

Our paper "Examining Zero-Shot Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Models" got accepted for IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023.

[July '22]

Team NYU won Hack@DAC 2022 for the second consecutive year.

[May '22]

Our paper "Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions" won the  Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022.

[Dec'21]

Team NYU won Hack@DAC 2021.

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