CERG Team Spring 2023. Click on picture to get a larger image. Click here for pictures from previous years.
Faculty
| Name | Function | Office | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kris Gaj, Ph.D. | Co-Director | ENGR 3225 | kgaj | 3-1575 |
| Jens-Peter Kaps, Ph.D. | Co-Director | ENGR 3222 | jkaps | 3-1611 |
| Michael X. Lyons | Member | BRH 105 | mlyons3 | 3-8461 |
Affiliated Scholars
| Name | Affiliation | Position | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Corporation | Engineering Specialist | scl9891 | |
| Cédric Marchand, Ph.D.
|
École centrale de Lyon | Associate Professor | Personal | |
| Miguel Medina Anton
|
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium | PhD Student | Academic | |
| Kamyar Mohajerani
|
Independent Researcher | mmohajer | ||
| 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
| Name | Office | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Beckwith
|
ENGR 3224 | lbeckwit | 3-1561 |
| Ahmed Jaber
|
ENGR 3224 | ajaber2 | 3-1561 |
Masters Students
| Name | Office | Phone | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayomikun Akindahunsi
|
ENGR 3224 | aakindah | 3-1561 | |
| Dillon Dunn
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| Eduardo "Eddie" Ferrufino
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| Alex Ghorbani | aghorba | |||
| Kowsyap Pranay Kumar Musumuri
|
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| Robert Wallace
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| Grant Wimer
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| Huizhen Zhou
|
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Alumni
| Name | Degree/Year | Company | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Lead Research Electronics Engineer | 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 | Florida Atlantic University | Assistant Professor | Personal |
| Malik Umar Sharif Ph.D. |
PhD ECE 2017 | Niobium Microsystms | 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 | Northwestern University | Postdoctoral Scholar | Personal |
| Bilal Habib Ph.D. |
PhD ECE 2016 | Cisco | 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 (2013-2022) | Lead Software Engineer | |
| 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 |