Kevin T. Kornegay received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from  Pratt  Institute, Brooklyn, NY, in 1985 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 and 1992, respectively.

He is currently the Eugene DeLoatch Endowed Chair in Cybersecurity Engineering and Director of the Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy (CAP) Center for Academic Excellence in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Morgan State University in  Baltimore, MD. His research interests include hardware assurance, reverse engineering,  secure embedded systems,  side‐channel analysis, and differential fault analysis.

Dr.  Kornegay serves on the technical program committees of several international conferences, including the IEEE Symposium on  Hardware Oriented  Security and  Trust (HOST), IEEE Secure Development Conference (SECDEV), USENIX Security 2021, IEEE AIPR 2020: Trusted Computing, Privacy, and Securing Multimedia, the IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE), and the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI).  He also was appointed to the NIST IoT Advisory Board and Maryland Cybersecurity Council

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Partnership Award, National Semiconductor Faculty Development Award, and the General Motors Faculty Fellowship Award. He is currently a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies.