Students

Current Graduate Students

1. Andrew Adiletta, Ph.D. candidate
2. Kemal Derya, Ph.D. candidate

Former Graduate Students

• Jens-Peter Kaps, George Mason University, Associate Professor of ECE.
• Gunnar Gaubatz, Apple, San Jose, CA.
• Selcuk Baktir, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul.
• Erdinc Ozturk, Assistant Professor, Intel Corporation, Hudson, MA.
• Ghaith Hammouri, CEO, Simtix , Dubai (see http://www.simtix.com/)
• Deniz Karakoyunlu, Analog Devices, Boston, MA
• Kahraman Akdemir, Apple, Bay Area
• Yin Hu, Applied Blockchain and Crypto Labs, China.
• Chenguang Yang, Bloomberg, New York
• Colleen M. O'Rourke, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Needham, MA
• Kaan Yuksel, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
• Yarkin Doroz, Nvidia
• Wei Dai, Microsoft Research
• Gizem Selcan Cetin, Mathworks, Natick, MA
• Michael Moukarzel, Postdoc, Virginia Tech
• Mehmet Inci, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
• Daniel Moghimi, Google
• Vincenzo Diliuoffo, IBM Research
• Berk Gulmezoglu, Iowa State University
• Matthew J. Adiletta, Harvard University
• Saad Islam, National Centre for Cyber Security (NCCS)
• Kristi Rahman, Intel Corporation
• Andrew Adiletta, Mitre Corporation
• Zane Weissman, Teaching Faculty WPI

PhD Dissertations Advised

• J.-P.Kaps, Cryptography for Ultra-Low Power Devices, 2006.
• G. Gaubatz, Tamper-Resistant System for Public-Key Cryptography, 2007.
• S. Baktir, Frequency Domain Finite Field System for ECC, 2008.
• E. Ozturk, Efficient and Tamper-Resilient Arch. for Pairing Based Crypto, 2008.
• G. Hammouri, Cryptographic Primitives from Physical Variables, 2009.
• D. Karakoyunlu, Efficient Side-Channel Aware ECC over Prime Fields, 2010.
• K. Akdemir, Error Detection Techniques Against Strong Adversaries, 2010.
• Y. Hu, Improving the Efficiency of Homomorphic Encryption Schemes, 2013.
• C. Yang, Security in Voice Authentication, 2014.
• Y. Doroz, New Approaches for Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption, 2017.
• G. Irazoki, Cross-core Microarchitectural Attacks and Countermeasures, 2017.
• G. Cetin, Applications of Fully Homomorphic Encryption, 2019.
• M. S. Inci, Micro-architectural Threats to Modern Computing Systems, 2019.
• M. A. Moukarzel, Understanding and Countermeasures against IoT Physical Side Channel Leakage, 2019.
• W. Dai, Accelerating Lattice-based Cryptography with GPUs, 2019.
• D. Moghimi, Revisiting Isolated and Trusted Execution via Microarchitectural Cryptanalysis, 2020.
• B. Gulmezoglu, Towards Automated Analysis of Microarchitectural Attacks using Machine Learning, 2021.
• S. Islam, Software-Induced Fault Attacks on Post-Quantum Signature Schemes, 2022.
• Z. Weissman, Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities in Heterogeneous Computing and Cloud Systems, 2024.
• C. Tol, AI-Assisted Detection and Mitigation of Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities, 2024.

Master's Theses Advised

• C. O'Rourke, Efficient NTRU Implementations, 2002.
• G. Gaubatz, Versatile Montgomery Multiplier Architectures, 2002.
• S. Baktir, Efficient Alg. for Finite Fields, with App. in Elliptic Curve Cryptography, 2003.
• K. Yuksel, Universal Hashing for Ultra-Low-Power Crypto. Hardware Applications, 2004.
• E. Ozturk, Low Power Elliptic Curve Cryptography, 2005.
• Matthew J. Adiletta, A Reinforcement Learning Approach To Optimize the MLC Prefetcher Aggressiveness at Run-Time , 2021.
• Andrew Adiletta, Chaos in Memory: A Comprehensive Analysis of Register and Stack Variable Corruption, 2023.
• Kristi Rahman, Investigating the Practical Limits of Rowhammer Attacks, 2023.