Matthew Hicks
Associate Professor
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Hicks is an associate professor of computer science at Virginia Tech with 11 years of experience spanning academia and government research, focused on security, computer architecture, and embedded systems. He built his research foundation during a PhD and postdoctoral work at UIUC and Michigan, collaborating with notable researchers on topics like hardware security, approximate computing, and low-power intermittent devices. Prior roles at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and extensive teaching and mentoring experience reflect a balance of applied systems engineering and student-focused research leadership. Matthew's work often sits at the intersection of hardware and software, turning architectural insights into practical security and resilience solutions for embedded platforms. Based in Blacksburg, he brings both deep research rigor and hands-on development experience with FPGA and low-power systems that inform his classroom and lab.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (41)
soc10
tla9
verilog9
ranking9
fpga9
react8
science8
argon8
risc-v8
evaluation8
device-management7
coverage7
vhdl7
simulations7
vcd7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
impedimentToProgress/MiBench2
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
MiBench ported for IoT devices
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
argonworkbenchdevice-managementiot-devicesesp8266
FoRTE-Research/afl-fid
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
A suite of AFL modifications for fixed input dataset experiments
Contributions:67 commits, 49 pushes in 8 months
aflmodificationsdatasetsuite
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