Alan Ehret is an assistant research professor leading the Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems Laboratory in the Secure, Trusted, and Assured Microelectronics Center at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Arizona State University in 2022 under the advisement of Michel A. Kinsy. His research focuses on hardware root-of-trust system design, domain specific architectures, scalable capability-based memory models, and unified edge, fog, cloud computing architectures.