Cybersecurity Team
Faculty
Bertrand Cambou
Professor
Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science
Email: bertrand.cambou@nau.edu
Michael Gowanlock
Assistant Professor
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Email: michael.gowanlock@nau.edu
Julie Heynssens
Senior Lecturer
Graduate Researcher (PhD)
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
Email: julie.heynssens@nau.edu
Bahattin Yildiz
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Email: Bahattin.Yildiz@nau.edu
Tuy Nguyen
Truong Nghiem
Ben Lucas
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Also associated with College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences
Staff
Christopher Philabaum
Cyber Systems Specialist, Ph.D. in Informatics
Email: christopher.philabaum@nau.edu
Development, characterization of the implementation of lattice based cryptography for TAPKI/RBC with ReRAM-based PUF. Back-to-back comparison with EC-DSA, and ECC based key encapsulation. Optimization of the architecture with distributed memory and multi-core such as multi-core, GPU, Associative memory.
PhD Graduates
Sareh Assiri
Assistant Professor of Practice
Email: sa2363@nau.edu
M.Sc. in both Computer Science and Informatics. Currently a Ph.D student in the School of Informatics and Computing Cyber Systems at NAU. His research interests include Using nanotechnology- Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) for security purposes ( key exchange, keyless cryptography, authentication (password manager and management), and one-way encryption.)
Mohammad Mohammadinodoushan
PhD
Email: mm3845@nau.edu
M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Informatics and Computing at NAU. His past research emphasis was on Renewable Energy Power Systems, including data mining and machine learning, intelligent control, and Power Electronics. His current research emphasis is on Cyber Engineering for Cyber Security, including statistics to circuits of memory PUFs, very novel password managers utilizing PUFs, as well as key generation, keyless encryption, and key exchange using PUFs.
Manuel Aguilar Rios
PhD
Email: maa778@nau.edu
Design, characterization, and optimization of the electronic circuits driving ReRAM-based PUFs, and MRAM-based PUFs for the reference cell, cell pairing, and keyless protocols. Theoretical modeling and experimental validation of the parameters driving latencies, accuracies, and reliability of these circuits.
Taylor Begay
PhD
Email: tjb389@nau.edu
Electrical characterization of the ReRAM with 1b boards, get statistically significant data base. Characterize and model the resistance values in the pre-forming range: BER, temperature and aging effect, entropy. Develop ways to sort out the vulnerable cell population. Develop ways to damage the cells.
Students
Jack Austin Garrard
Graduate Researcher (PhD)
Email: jg2562@nau.edu
Develop, characterize and optimize PUF enrollment methods. Theoretical modeling and experimental validation of various enrolment methods to reduce enrollment times, while reducing BER. Evaluate several HW architecture’s dedicated to enrollment.
Michael Logan Garrett
Graduate Researcher (Masters)
Email: mlg238@nau.edu
Characterization and optimization with NIST suite of test of several TRNG designs for various PUFs: SRAM, ReRAM, and MRAM. Theoretical modeling and experimental validation of session key generation in zero-trust environment. Evaluate RBC accelerator such as an Associative Memory for the protocol.
Saloni Jain
Graduate Researcher (PhD)
Email: sj779@nau.edu
My research involves developing cryptographic key protocols using MRAM and ReRAM. In addition to that, I am analyzing SRAM, ReRAM and MRAM PUFs(Physically Unclonable Functions) on how they behave at different temperatures and what their Bit Error Rates are. I am also working on protocols to generate True Random Numbers using these memristors, mainly focusing on MRAM at the moment. To protect these keys from being hacked by the intruders using reverse engineering of the protocols, we have developed a way to confuse the intruders and that is done by injecting noise. I have been progressively working on that too.
Dina Ghanai Miandoab
Graduate Researcher (PhD)
Email: dg856@nau.edu
Develop, characterize, and optimize various PQC algorithms for SRAM and ReRAM PUFs: lattice, multivariate. Theoretical modeling and experimental validation of the algorithm with benchmarking analysis. Study and propose optimization of ternary QKD architecture to reduce BER.
Morgan Riggs
Graduate Researcher (PhD)
Email: bmr298@nau.edu
Physical characterization of the ReRAM cells (1a and 1b). Propose/validate physical models explaining the cell to cell variations. Leverage outside resources working on radiation effects, and physical analysis. Study PUF-based protocol to protect QKD with teaching kit.
Ashwija Korenda
Graduate Researcher (PhD)
Email:AshwijaKorenda@nau.edu
Develop, characterize, and optimize error correcting schemes for TAPKI and ReRAM-based PUFs. Theoretical modeling and experimental validation of correcting scheme with optimization of the size of the helper, latencies, BERs, and computing power.