Dillon Dunn

Contact

3100 Engineering Building
George Mason University
ECE Department, CERG
4400 University Drive, MS 1G5
Fairfax, VA 22030
E-Mail: ddunn25@gmu.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Linked In

Research Interest

Dillon's research area is in optimizing PQC (Post-Quantum Cryptography) algorithms. Currently Dillon is investigating two areas. The first is optimizing algorithms for performance on the RISC-V architecture leveraging SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions. The second area is optimizing algorithms for space on an FPGA. Dillon is investigating the Winograd's Transform for fast polynomial multiplication.

Advisor: Dr. Kris Gaj

Biography

Dillon Dunn graduated with a bachelors in Computer Science at Lebanon Valley College in 2014. After graduating Dillon pursued a carrier in Software/Systems engineering at SWIFT. Shortly after in 2019 Dillon joined AWS (Amazon Web Service) as a Systems Development Engineer and has been their ever since. In 2023 Dillon joined GMU (George Mason University) and began persuing a masters in Computer Engineering. In the Fall of 2024, after taking several courses in cryptography Dillon joined GMU CERG (Cryptographic Engineering Research Group).