Students

Current Graduate Students

1. Andrew Adiletta, MSc. candidate
2. Kemal Derya, Ph.D. candidate
3. Kristi Rahman, Ph.D. candidate
4. Caner Tol, Ph.D. candidate
5. Zane Weissman, 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, Teaching Assistant Professor, WPI
• Wei Dai, Microsoft Research
• Gizem Selcan Cetin, Mathworks, Natick, MA
• Michael Moukarzel, Postdoc, Virginia Tech
• Mehmet Inci, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
• Daniel Moghimi, UCSD
• Vincenzo Diliuoffo, IBM Research
• Berk Gulmezoglu, Iowa State University
• Matthew J. Adiletta, Harvard University
• Saad Islam, National Centre for Cyber Security (NCCS)

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.

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.