Students
Current
PhD Alumni
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Pantea Kiaei (PhD 2022)
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Current Position: Hardware Design Engineer, Apple, CA.
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Dissertation: "Cross-Layer Vulnerability Analysis of System-on-Chip against Physical Hardware Attacks"
pdf
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Archanaa Santhana Krishnan (PhD 2021)
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Current Position: Software/Hardware Security at Texas Instruments, TX.
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Dissertation: "Top-down Approach To Securing Intermittent Embedded Systems" pdf
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Yuan Yao (PhD 2021)
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Current Position: ML SoC Design Engineer at Google, CA.
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Dissertation: "Towards Comprehensive Side-channel Resistant Embedded Systems" pdf
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Bilgiday Yuce (PhD 2017)
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Current Position: Silicon Security Engineer at Google, CA.
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Dissertation: "Fault Attacks on Embedded Software: New Directions in Modeling, Design, and Mitigation" pdf
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Nahid Farhady Ghalaty (PhD 2016)
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Current Position: ML Engineer at Google, Adjunct Faculty at UC Berkeley, CA.
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Dissertation: "Fault Attacks on Cryptosystems: Novel Threat Models, Countermeasures and Evaluation Techniques" pdf
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Aydin Aysu (PhD 2016).
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Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, NC (Fall 2018).
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Dissertation: "Resource-constrained and Resource-efficient Modern Cryptosystem Design"
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Mostafa Mohamed Ibrahim Taha (PhD 2014).
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Current Position: Assistant Professor, Carleton University (Canada).
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Dissertation: "Advances in the Side-Channel Analysis of Symmetric Cryptography"
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Abhranil Maiti (PhD 2012).
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Current Position: Security Architect at Intel, OR
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Dissertation: "A Systematic Approach to Design an Efficient Physical Unclonable Function"
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- Xu Eric Guo (PhD 2012).
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Current Position: Senior Staff Product Security Engineer at Qualcomm, CA.
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Dissertation: "Secure and Efficient Implementations of Cryptographic Primitives"
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- Zhimin Chen (PhD 2011).
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Current Position: Senior Principal Security Architect at Tenstorrent, CA
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Dissertation: "SCA-Resistant and High-Performance Embedded Cryptography using Instruction-Set Extensions and Multicore Processors".
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MS Alumni
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Richa Singh (MS 2022).
- Thesis: "Design and Evaluation of Bit-sliced Neural Network and Post-Quantum Implementations" pdf
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Ramazan Kaan Eren (MS 2022).
- Thesis: "Side-channel Testing Infrastructures in Pre- and Post-silicon Settings" pdf
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Jacob Grycel (MS 2021).
- Thesis: "Hardware Simulation of Embedded Software Fault Attacks: How to SimpliFI Processor Fault Vulnerability Evaluation" pdf
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Thomas Conroy (MS 2021).
- Thesis: "Support for Accessible Bitsliced Software" pdf
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Tarun Kathuria (MS 2019).
- Thesis: "Gate-level Leakage Assessment and Mitigation" pdf
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Charles Suslowicz (MS 2018).
- Thesis: "Secure Intermittent Computing: Precomputation and Implementation"
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Conor Patrick (MS 2017).
- Thesis: "Software Protection against Fault and Side Channel Attacks" pdf
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Harsha Mandadi (MS 2017).
- Thesis: "Remote Integrity Checking using Multiple PUF based Component Identifiers" pdf
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Hemendra Rawat (MS 2016).
- Thesis: "Vector Instruction Set Extensions for Efficient and Reliable Computation of Keccak" pdf
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Carol Pinto (MS 2016).
- Thesis: "Optimization of Physical Unclonable Function Protocols for Lightweight Processing"
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Shravya Gaddam (MS 2016).
- Thesis: "Design and Implementation of PUF Based Protocols for Remote
Integrity Verification" pdf
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Ege Gulcan (MS 2015).
- Thesis: "Flexible and Lightweight Cryptographic Engines for Constrained Systems"
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Moein Pahlavan Yali (MS 2014).
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Thesis: "An Insightful Model for FGPA-based Hardware Acceleration in Modern Embedded Systems"
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Deepak Hanamant Mane (MS 2014).
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Thesis: "Energy-harvested Lightweight Cryptosystems"
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Krishna Chaitanya Pabbuleti (MS 2014).
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Thesis: "Performance Optimization of Public Key Cryptography on Embedded Platforms"
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Lyndon Judge (MS 2012).
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Thesis: "Design Methods for Cryptanalysis"
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Suvarna Mane (MS 2012).
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Thesis: "Implementation of SCA-Resistant CPU and an ECDLP Engine on FPGA Platform"
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Ambuj Sinha (MS 2011).
- Thesis: "Design Techniques for Side-channel Resistant Software"
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Srikrishna Iyer (MS 2011).
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Thesis: "A Unifying Interface Abstraction for Accelerated Computing in Sensor Nodes"
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Sergey Morozov (MS 2010).
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Thesis: "Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Heterogeneous Multicore Platform"
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Michael Gora (MS 2010).
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Thesis: "Securing Software Intellectual Property on Commodity and Legacy Embedded Systems"
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Christian Tergino (MS 2009).
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Thesis: "Efficient Binary Field Multiplication on a VLIW DSP"
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Pengyuan Yu (MS 2007).
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Thesis: "Implementation of a DPA-Resistant Circuit for FPGA"
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Eric Simpson (MS 2007).
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Thesis: "Runtime Intellectual Property Protection on Programmable Platforms"
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MEng Alumni
BS Alumni
- Sam Cowley (BS 2019).
- Riley Cooper (BS 2017).
- Luke Wegryn (BS 2015).
- Bishwamoy Sinha Roy (BS 2014).
- Cameron Spiller (BS 2014).
- Stephen Sul (BS 2014).
- Shaishav Parekh (BS 2012).
- Michael Cantrell (BS 2012).
- Micah Boswell (BS 2012).
- Billy Gomez (BS 2012).
- Matthew Via (BS 2012).
- Vikash Gunreddy (BS 2012).
- Viktor Murillo (BS 2011).
- Luke McHale (BS 2011).
- Logan McDougall (BS 2011).
- Jeff Casarona (BS 2010).