CERG Team

CERG Team Spring 2023. Click on picture to get a larger image. Click here for pictures from previous years.

Faculty

NameFunctionOfficeE-MailPhone
Kris Gaj, Ph.D.Co-DirectorENGR 3225 kgaj3-1575
Jens-Peter Kaps, Ph.D. Co-DirectorENGR 3222 jkaps3-1611
Michael X. LyonsMemberBRH 105 mlyons33-8461

Affiliated Scholars

NameAffiliationPositionE-Mail
Abubakr Abdulgadir, Ph.D. PQSecure Technologies Senior Cryptographic Engineer Professional
Michal Andrzejczak, Ph.D. Polish National Cyber Security Centre and ResQuant Cryptographer Personal
Viet Ba Dang Apple SoC Power Modeling Engineer Personal
William Diehl, Ph.D. U.S. Army DEVCOM Atlantic Science and Technology Advisor Professional
Farnoud Farahmand, Ph.D. Apple SoC Power Engineer Professional
Ekawat Homsirikamol, Ph.D. API PLUS POWER Co., Ltd. Principal Engineer/CEO Personal
Brian Jarvis Amazon Web Services Software Development Manager Personal
Soonhak Kwon, Ph.D. Sungkyunkwan University Professor Personal
Sammy Lin The Aerospace CorporationEngineering Specialist scl9891
Cédric Marchand, Ph.D. École centrale de Lyon Associate Professor Personal
Miguel Medina Anton Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium PhD Student Academic
Rishub Nagpal IAIK - Graz University of Technology PhD Student Professional
Duc Tri Nguyen Ph.D. PQSecure Technologies Cryptographic Engineer Personal
Ted Winograd Booz Allen Hamilton Cybersecurity Architect Personal
Fernando Urbano Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombian PhD Student Personal

Doctoral Students

NameOfficeE-MailPhone
Luke Beckwith ENGR 3224 lbeckwit 3-1561
Ahmed Jaber ENGR 3224 ajaber2 3-1561
Kamyar Mohajerani ENGR 3224 mmohajer 3-1561

Masters Students

Name Office E-MailPhone
Ayomikun Akindahunsi ENGR 3224 aakindah 3-1561
Dillon Dunn ddunn25
Eduardo "Eddie" Ferrufino eferruf
Robert Wallace rwalla
Huizhen Zhou hzhou9

Alumni

Name Degree/Year Company Position E-Mail
Ted Winograd Ph.D. PhD ECE 2024 Booz Allen Hamilton Cybersecurity Architect Personal
Miguel Medina Anton MS CpE 2024 Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium PhD Student Academic
Duc Tri Nguyen Ph.D. PhD ECE 2023 PQSecure Technologies Cryptographic Engineer Personal
Viet Ba Dang, Ph.D. PhD ECE 2022 Apple SoC Power Modeling Engineer Personal
Abubakr Abdulgadir, Ph.D. PhD ECE 2021 PQSecure Technologies Senior Cryptographic Engineer Academic
Javad Bahrami MS CpE 2021 UMBC and WiLO Networks PhD student and ASIC/RTL Design Engineer Academic
Rich Haeussler MS CpE 2021 Lockheed Martin Computer Information Research Scientist Academic
Farnoud Farahmand, Ph.D. PhD ECE 2020 Apple SoC Power Engineer Academic
Matthew Ryan Carter MS CpE 2018 Hughes Network Systems Member of Technical Staff 2 - S/W Academic
Aaron Hunter MS CpE 2018 Aaron C Hunter Innovations LLC Engineer Personal
William Diehl, Ph.D. PhD ECE 2018 U.S. Army DEVCOM Atlantic Science and Technology Advisor Professional
Panasayya S.V.V.K Yalla Ph.D. PhD ECE 2017 Keysight Device Security Testing Principal Security Analyst y.panasayya
Ahmad Salman Ph.D. PhD ECE 2017 James Madison University Associate Professor asalman
Rabia Shahid Ph.D. PhD ECE 2017 University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan Assistant Professor Personal
Malik Umar Sharif Ph.D. PhD ECE 2017 SpeQtral Senior FPGA Engineer Personal
Ahmed Ferozpuri MS CpE 2017 Personal
Ekawat "Ice" Homsirikamol Ph.D. PhD ECE 2016 API PLUS POWER Co., Ltd. Principal Engineer/CEO Personal
Sanjay Deshpande MS CpE 2016 Yale University and SandboxAQ Research Associate II and PQC Research Scientist Resident Personal
Bilal Habib Ph.D. PhD ECE 2016 Ciscon Hardware Engineer Personal
Brian Jarvis MS CpE 2015 Amazon Web Services Software Development Manager Personal
Sangamitra Katamreddy MS CpE 2015 Guidehouse Technical Lead Personal
Upendarredy Mamidi MS CpE 2015 Dovel Technologies Frontend Developer Personal
Harsh Vachharajani MS CpE 2015 ZEISS Digital Innovation Senior Security Architect Personal
John N. Pham MS CpE 2015 Northrop Grumman Senior Principal Software Engineer Personal
Yamini Ravishankar MS CpE 2015 Marvell Semiconductor Senior Staff Engineer Personal
Rajesh Velegalati Ph.D. Ph.D. ECE 2015 Riscure Principal Security Analyst Personal
Marcin Rogawski Ph.D. (deceased) Ph.D. ECE 2013 Cadence Design Systems Lead Software Engineer Personal
Kinjal Shah MS CpE 2013 Qualcomm Design Verification Engineer Personal
Benjamin Brewster MS CpE 2012 Epic Software Developer Personal
Smriti Gurung MS CpE 2012 AMD Compute Workloads Validation Lead Personal
Robert Lorentz MS CpE 2011 Charles Schwab Director of Cloud Engineering Personal
Susheel C Vadlamudi MS CpE 2011 Visa Lead ML Engineer/Director svadlamu
Kishore Kumar Surapathi MS CpE 2011 Motorola Site Reliability Engineer ksurapat
Ambarish Vyas MS CpE 2011 NVIDIA Senior SoC Security Architect Personal
Abirami Prabhakaran MS CpE 2011 Intel Hardware Engineer Personal
Venkata Amirineni MS CpE 2010 Accenture Senior Manager Personal
Xin Xin MS CpE 2010 Apple Hardware Engineer Personal
Matthew Estes MS CpE 2010 Oracle Architect, Core Security Services Personal
Shaunak Shah MS CpE 2010 Intertek Acumen Security Engineering Manager Personal
Shashi Prashant Karanam MS CpE 2009 Comcast Senior Manager, Cybersecurity| Governance, Risk and Compliance Personal
John Gibson MS CpE 2008 US Department of Defense Computer Engineer jgibson6
Ryon H Sumner MS CpE 2008 Sony Principal Engineer Personal
Bin Zhou Ph.D. MS CpE 2008 Shandong Academy of Science Director and Chief Scientist of Marine Information Processing Lab Personal
Chang Shu Ph.D. Ph.D. ECE 2007 Credo Senior Principal Engineer Personal