Group Members

Fatemeh Ganji

Assistant Professor
email: fganji@wpi.edu

• PhD: 2017, Technical University of Berlin
• Interests: ML & Crypto, IC Security

Ghaith Hammouri

Affliate Research Scientist
email: hammouri@wpi.edu

• PhD: 2009, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Interests: Crypto and AI, Security in LLMs, Boolean Fourier Analysis

Koksal Mus

Assistant Teaching Professor
email: kmus@wpi.edu

• PhD: 2016, Middle East Technical University
• Interests: Post-Quantum Crypto, Microarchitectural Security

Patrick Schaumont

Professor
email: pschaumont@wpi.edu

• PhD: 2004, UCLA
• Interests: Secure IC Design, HW Security, Embedded Systems

Berk Sunar

Professor
email: sunar@wpi.edu

• PhD: 1998, Oregon State University
• Interests: Microarchitectural & Side Channel Attacks, Post-Quantum Crypto, FHE

Shahin Tajik

Assistant Professor
email: stajik@wpi.edu

• PhD: 2017, Technical University of Berlin
• Interests: FPGA Security, Optical Probing, HW Security, Side-channel Analysis

Zhenyuan Liu

PhD Student
email: zliu12@wpi.edu

• MS Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Working on Secure IC Design

Dillibabu Shanmugam

PhD Student
email: dshanmugam@wpi.edu

• BS Anna University
• Working on Side Channel Analsyis

Andrew J.Adiletta

PhD Student
email: ajadiletta@wpi.edu

• MS Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Working on Microarchitectural SCA

Kemal Derya

PhD Student
email: kderya@wpi.edu

• MS Sabanci University
• Working on Microarchitectural SCA

Mohammad Hashemi

PhD Student
email: mhashemi@wpi.edu

• MS University of Tehran
• Working on Secured Multi-party Computation

Dev Mehta

PhD Student
email: dmmehta2@wpi.edu

• MS Berlin Institute of Technology
• Working on SCA on AI Systems

Saleh K.Monfared

PhD Student
email: skmonfared@wpi.edu

• BS Technical University of K.N.Toosi
• Working on Physical Side Channel Analysis

Tahoura Mosavirik

PhD Student
email: tmosavirik@wpi.edu

• MS Iran University of Science and Technology
• Working on Physical Verification of Electronic Systems and Hardware Tamper and Counterfeit Detection

Kristi Rahman

PhD Student
email: krahman@wpi.edu

Maryam Saadat Safa

PhD Student
email: msafa@wpi.edu

• MS Iran University of Science and Technology
• Working on Hardware Tamper and Counterfeit Detection

M. Caner Tol

PhD Student
email: mtol@wpi.edu

• MS Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Working on Microarchitectural SCA

Zane Weissman

PhD Student
email: zweissman@wpi.edu

• MS Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Working on Microarchitectural SCA

Pantea Kiaei

PhD student

• 2022, PhD at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Now hardware design engineer at Apple

Yuan Yao

Visiting PhD student

• 2022, PhD at Virginia Tech
• Now a silicon security architect at Google

Richa Singh

MS student

• 2022 ,MS at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Now a hardware security architect at NVIDIA

Saad Islam

PhD Student

• 2022, PhD Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Now at National Centre for Cyber Security (NCCS)

Archanaa Santhana Krishnan

PhD Student

• 2021, Visiting Scholar
• Now Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Berk Gulmezoglu

PhD Student

• 2020, PhD Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Now at Assistant Proffessor at Iowa State University

Daniel Moghimi

PhD Student

• 2020, PhD Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Now Security Research Scientist at Google

Mehmet Sinan Inci

PhD Student

• 2018, PhD Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Now Security Researcher at Nvidia

Yarkin Doroz

Assistant Teaching Professor
email: ydoroz@wpi.edu

• PhD: 2017, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Now a Product Manager Homomorphic and Post-quantum Encryption at NVIDIA