Aydin Aysu

Next Move

I am moving to North Carolina State University to start a tenure-track Assitant Professor position. I am seeking multiple PhD students in the field of hardware and embedded security. Here is a description of the positions, interested applicants can email me.

News

• Best Paper Runner-Up – HOST'18: Our new paper became the runner-up for the best paper award at HOST2018 conference. This paper illustrates the first successful side-channel attacks on post-quantum key-exchange protocols. This attack can extract the entire secret key from a single power measurement of lattice arithmetic implemented in hardware. Check our pre-print here.

• Our new paper is accepted to DATE2018 conference. We analyze the side-channel security vulnerabilities of a post-quantum encryption algorithm and propose lightweight countermeasures for its adoption on IoT devices. Check our pre-print here.

Bio

I conduct research on cybersecurity with an emphasis on hardware-based security. The focus of my research is the development of secure systems that prevent cyberattacks targeting hardware vulnerabilities. To that end, my research interests cover applied cryptography, computer architecture, and digital hardware design. Specifically, I study post-quantum (PQ) cryptosystems, lightweight IoT encryption, physical unclonable functions (PUFs), secure computer architectures with side-channel defenses, and malware detection with machine learning. I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at The University of Texas at Austin, and I am hosted by Prof. Mohit Tiwari and Prof. Michael Orshansky.

I received my PhD degree from Virginia Tech, Secure Embedded Systems Labs led by Prof. Patrick Schaumont. Before my PhD, I was working as a digital design engineer at Vestek R&D Corp. I also hold MS in Electronics Engineering and BS in Microelectronics with Mathematics minor from Sabanci Univesity, Istanbul, Turkey.