Few facts about me: Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Founder of the Vernam Lab specializing in applied cryptography and cybersecurity.
My current research interests are in
- AI Security & Security for AI
- Microarchitectural & Side Channel Attacks
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
Recent Papers
- Revisiting JBShield: Breaking and Rebuilding Representation-Level Jailbreak Defenses, Kemal Derya, Berk Sunar, 2026, arXiv Preprint
- Super Suffixes: Bypassing Text Generation Alignment and Guard Models Simultaneously
- A Adiletta, K Adiletta, K Derya, B Sunar, 2025, arXiv Preprint
- Non-Halting Queries: Exploiting Fixed Points in LLMs, G. Hammouri, K. Derya, B. Sunar, Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SATML) 2025. arXiv Preprint
- Fault+ probe: A generic rowhammer-based bit recovery attack, K. Derya, M. C. Tol, B. Sunar, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2025, arXiv Preprint
- ZeroLeak: Using LLMs for Scalable and Cost Effective Side-Channel PatchingM. Caner Tol, Berk SunarEuropean Symposium on Research in Computer Security ESORICS, 290-310, 2024. arXiv Preprint arXiv:2308.13062