Dakshina Tharindu is a PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His current research focuses on hardware security and verification, firmware security, and AI accelerators. Dakshina has experience with a variety of EDA tools including Cadence (Genus, Innovus), Synopsys (VCS), Xilinx (Vivado, Vitis), and Intel (Quartus, ModelSim). He is also skilled in using UVM and QuestaSim for RTL verification. Dakshina is passionate about exploring new technologies and solving challenging problems in his field.