Dean Sullivan is a Computer Engineering PhD student at the University of Central Florida. His research efforts are centered on hardware assisted cyber security systems. Mr. Sullivan was the recipient of the 52nd DAC Best Paper Award as part of his work in HAFIX: Hardware-Assisted Flow Integrity Extension, and a recipient of the A. Richard Newton Young Scholar Fellow award in the 53rd Design Automation Conference. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Science of Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida.