Postdoctoral researchers

PhD students

  • Soner Seckiner (Fall 2018 - ): On-chip VR design and hardware security

  • Yerzhan Mustafa (Spring 2021 - ): Superconducting electronics and quantum/classical interface

  • Ahmet Yusuf Salim (Fall 2023 - ): Ising machine based optimization

  • Ayisat Adedokun (Summer 2024 - ): TBD

  • Gulnur Kulzhanova (Fall 2024 - ): TBD

  • Irem Zengin (Fall 2024 - ): TBD

    • MS students

    Undergraduate students

  • Weiting Tan (started in sophomore year) (Fall 2024 - ): Side-channel attacks on mobile devices

    • Alumni

  • Prof. Weize Yu, PhD (Fall 2014 - Summer 2017): Currently @ Shandong University as Full Professor

    • ==> Dissertation: Exploiting On-Chip Voltage Regulators as a Countermeasure Against Power Analysis Attacks

  • Dr. Orhun Aras Uzun, PhD (Fall 2013 - Summer 2017): Currently @ Cirrus Logic

    • ==> Dissertation: Speed, Power Efficiency, and Noise Improvements for Switched Capacitor Voltage Converters

  • Dr. Mahmood Azhar, PhD (Summer 2013 - Fall 2018): Currently @ Georgia State Colleges

    • ==> Dissertation: Duty-Cycle Based Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) for Hardware Security Applications

  • Dr. Longfei Wang, PhD (Fall 2015 - Fall 2018): Currently @ Qualcomm

    • ==> Dissertation: High Performance Distributed On-Chip Voltage Regulation for Modern Integrated Systems

  • Dr. Berker Pekoz, PhD (Fall 2015 - Spring 2020): Currently @ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University as Assistant Professor

    • ==> Dissertation: Algorithms Enabling Communications in the Presence of Adjacent Channel Interference

  • Dr. Eslam Elmitwalli, PhD (Fall 2019 - Fall 2024): Currently @ Intel Corporation

    • ==> Dissertation: Applications of Randomness in Hardware Security and Combinatorial Optimization

  • Ahmed Waheed Khan, MSc (Summer 2017 - Summer 2018): Currently @ Texas Instruments

    • ==> Thesis: Towards Utilization of Distributed On-Chip Power Delivery Against EM Side-Channel Attacks

  • Rose McDonogh, MSc (Fall 2021 - Spring 2022): Currently @ Sandia National Laboratory

    • ==> Thesis: Improving Detection of Cache Side Channel Attacks in Noisy Environments Using Machine Learning

  • Tanya Wanchoo, MSc (Fall 2015 - Fall 2016): Currently @ Qualcomm

  • Sayed Abdullah Sadat, MSc (Fall 2015 - Spring 2017): Currently @ Alphataraxia Management LP

  • Jake Hertz, MSc (May 2020 - December 2020): First placement @ MakerBot

  • Sufyan Dawoodjee, UG (Fall 2012 - Spring 2013): First placement @ GaTech as a graduate student

  • Emre Arslan, UG (Fall 2014 - Spring 2018): First placement @ Koc University as a PhD student

    • Jiamin "Jimmy" Gan (Fall 2020 - Fall 2022): Machine learning for hardware security

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