CERG Team: Affiliated Scholars

Eduardo "Eddie" Ferrufino

Contact

3100 Engineering Building George Mason University ECE Department, CERG 4400 University Drive, MS 1G5 Fairfax, VA 22030

E-Mail: eferruf'at'gmu.edu Curriculum Vitae: LinkedIn

Research Interest

• FPGA and GPGPU based embedded systems, empahsis in applied cryptography and signal processing
• Distributed sensor systems
• Lightweight cryptography
• Side-channel attacks and protection
• Circuit board design

Advisor: Dr. Jens-Peter Kaps

Biography

Eddie graduadated from Florida International University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2008. Since graduation he has been working within the Defense Industry in Northern Virignia. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Computer Engineering at George Mason University.

Publications

• E. Ferrufino, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, and J.-P. Kaps, FOBOS 3: An open-source platform for side-channel analysis and benchmarking, Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, volume 15, number 10, 2025 [pdf] [Bibtex]
• K. Mohajerani, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, E. Ferrufino, J.-P. Kaps, and K. Gaj, SCA evaluation and benchmarking of finalists in the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process, May, 2023, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2023/484 [pdf] [Bibtex]
• E. Ferrufino, L. Beckwith, A. Abdulgadir, and J.-P. Kaps, FOBOS 3: An open-source platform for side-channel analysis and benchmarking, Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES), Association for Computing Machinery, Copenhagen, Denmark, pages 5–14, Nov, 2023 [pdf] [Bibtex]