UMBC CSEE Associate Professor Naghmeh Karimi received the 2026 College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award for overall excellence and promise in scholarship, teaching, service, and leadership. Her research areas include hardware security and design for trust, reliability, and testability, hardware design and synthesis, VLSI design, computer architecture, and EDA tools. She directs the SECure, REliable, and Trusted Systems (SECRETS) Laboratory.