CURRENT MEMBERS
Dr. Berk Gulmezoglu completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was advised by Prof. Berk Sunar.
He focused on the security of cryptographic implementations and micro-architectural systems including Intel and ARM processors. To analyze the increasing variety of micro-architectural attacks and large amounts of data, he applied and developed several Deep Learning techniques. Furthermore, he conducted experiments on detecting state-of-the-art micro-architectural attacks such as Spectre, Meltdown, and Zombieload by implementing Deep Learning algorithms. He was the recipient of the Global Research Award from WPI in 2017. He focused on cache attacks in ARM devices at Fraunhofer AISEC, Munich. He also had an internship at VMware Security Group, where he analyzed the possibility of side-channel attacks in the cloud environment. (CV)
Debopriya Roy Dipta is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He completed his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. His research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Architecture Security, and Signal Processing. He is currently working on side-channel attack analysis using machine learning. Personal Website Linkedin Google Scholar
Seonghun Son is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He completed his B.S. degree in Information and
Communication Engineering from Yeungnam University, South Korea. Before joining Iowa State, he worked as an Assistant Manager at ICT Infrastructure Strategy and Planning Team in National Information Society Agency (NIA) in South Korea. His research interest is in Computer Architecture Security and Deep Learning. He is currently working on Microarchitectural attack detection using Deep Learning techniques, especially mitigations of side-channel attacks. Personal Website Linkedin
Rajrup Mitra is a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He earned his
Master of Science (thesis) in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Dakota, USA, and his Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, India. Rajrup previously worked as a Systems Engineer at TATA Consultancy Services Limited, focusing on database management and PeopleSoft Financials ERP in India. His research interests encompass deep learning, CUDA-enabled AI processing, cyber-physical systems, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), computer vision, generative AI, image processing, software development, semiconductor physics, and device modeling and simulation. Currently, his research is focused on pavement inspections using deep learning, generative AI, and UASs. Linkedin Google Scholar
Jordan McGhee is currently a second-year M.S student in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. Jordan completed his B.S degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. Jordan is primarily interested in Computer Architecture design and security. Currently, Jordan is working in research using fuzzing in order to harden computer microarchitecture against Spectre attacks. Linkedin
Kat Christofferson is a senior at Iowa State University majoring in Cybersecurity Engineering, and a minor in Chinese. With a growing interest in machine learning-related security, Kat is currently conducting research on intrinsic dimension estimation to enhance machine learning security. They have also gained practical experience as an IT Security Intern at Kemin.
FORMER STUDENTS
Ege Demir is interested in the effects of interactions between lower and higher-level computer engineering concepts. He worked on the utilization of adversarial AI methods to mitigate micro-architectural side-channel attacks. Application of these methods is done using a high-level language such as JavaScript. He is also educating himself by reading the newest publications in supervised and unsupervised learning fields. He has attended several IBM-sponsored quantum computing conferences, and performed outreach by preparing and presenting a course with the main focus of creation and simulation of quantum circuits to high school students in Petnica, Serbia. He is currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Themis AI. Linkedin
Sebastian De La Torre is currently an undergraduate freshman in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He got his high school diploma fro
m Mahtomedi High School, Mahtomedi, Minnesota. He took college-level classes at Century College in Computer Hardware and Software Design. He also obtained IT Essentials Certificate. He is a part of the APEX-E program at ISU. He is working on cache side-channel attacks with different program languages. Linkedin
Nayra T. Lujano is currently a second-year M.S. student in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. Nayra completed their B.S. in Computer
Engineering from Iowa State University. Nayra is interested in security education and hardware security. Their research interests include Computer Architecture Security, Engineering Education, and Machine Learning. Nayra is currently working with the Multicultural Student Affairs program instructing a summer course for incoming freshmen, the CySat Satellite through the Make to Innovate program, and working on a project involving hardware hardening metrics. They are currently working at Boeing as a software engineer. Linkedin
Jonathan Tan is currently a senior in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University and is working towards
completing his undergrad and getting his master’s in computer engineering. His area of interest is microarchitecture and hardware accelerator design for Machine Learning. He presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2023. He also interned at Eaton as a firmware intern. His goal is to join a company that designs and manufactures chips. Linkedin