{"id":279,"date":"2020-06-16T17:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/cybersecurity\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2025-05-07T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:44:12","slug":"our_team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/cybersecurity\/our_team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybersecurity Team<\/h1>\n

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Bertrand Cambou<\/h3>\n

Professor<\/p>\n

Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong>\u00a0bertrand.cambou@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Michael Gowanlock<\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor<\/p>\n

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> michael.gowanlock@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Julie Heynssens<\/h3>\n

Senior Lecturer<\/p>\n

Graduate Researcher (PhD)<\/p>\n

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong>\u00a0julie.heynssens@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tuy Nguyen<\/h3>\n
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Lab:<\/strong>\u00a0Digital Systems Design Lab<\/a>\u00a0(DSD LAB)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Research interests:<\/strong>\u00a0Cryptography, Homomorphic Encryption, Hardware Security, System-on-Chip Design<\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ben Lucas<\/h3>\n
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Associate Professor<\/p>\n

Department of Mathematics and Statistics<\/p>\n

Also associated with\nCollege of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Olutosin Taiwo<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Assistant Teaching Professor<\/p>\n

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems.<\/p>\n

Email: Olutosin.Taiwo@nau.edu<\/p>\n

Research Interest: Smart Home Automation, Smart Home Security, Security in Smart Cities, Secured Smart Healthcare Devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ian Burke<\/h3>\n

Cybersecurity Lab Manager\/Electrical Engineer<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> Ian.Burke@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sareh Assiri<\/h3>\n

Assistant Professor of Practice<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> sa2363@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.)<\/p>\n

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Mohammad Mohammadinodoushan<\/h3>\n

PhD<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> mm3845@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Manuel Aguilar Rios<\/h3>\n

PhD<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> maa778@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Begay<\/h3>\n

PhD<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> tjb389@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Christopher Philabaum<\/h3>\n

Cyber Systems Specialist, Ph.D. in Informatics<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> christopher.philabaum@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Saloni Jain<\/h3>\n

PhD<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> sj779@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Dina Ghanai Miandoab<\/h3>\n

Graduate Researcher (PhD)<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> dg856@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Ashwija Korenda<\/h3>\n

Graduate Researcher (PhD)<\/p>\n

Email:AshwijaKorenda@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Michael Logan Garrett<\/h3>\n

Graduate Researcher (Masters)<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> mlg238@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Morgan Riggs<\/h3>\n

Graduate Researcher (PhD)<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> bmr298@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Mahafujul Alam<\/h3>\n

Graduate Researcher (PhD)<\/p>\n

Email:ma3755@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ruben Eduardo Montano Claure<\/h3>\n

Graduate Researcher (PhD)<\/p>\n

Research interests :<\/p>\n

– Sensor Resilience in MEMS: Gyroscopes, Accelerometers, Magnetic Sensors, Magnetometers<\/p>\n

– Fingerprinting Sensors for Cryptographic Key Generation, Identification, and Authentication<\/p>\n

-Real-Time Systems, IoT, and CPS<\/p>\n

Email:rm2297@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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