Aydin Aysu

Bio

Dr. Aysu received his B.S degree in microelectronics engineering with a mathematics minor and his M.S degree in electrical engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin before he joined NC State. Dr. Aysu conducts research on cybersecurity with an emphasis on hardware-based security. The focus of his research is the development of secure systems that prevent advanced cyber attacks targeting hardware vulnerabilities. To that end, his research interests cover applied cryptography, computer architecture, and digital hardware design. He also works on cybersecurity education and the societal impacts of cybersecurity.

Area(s) of Expertise

Computer Architecture and Systems

Publications

• Hardware-Enabled Mechanisms for Verifying Responsible AI Development , (2025)
• Machine Learning-Aided Detection of DoS Attacks in Power Systems using Side-Channel Monitoring , (2025)
• THEMIS: Time, Heterogeneity, and Energy Minded Scheduling for Fair Multi-Tenant Use in FPGAs , IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS (2025)
• The Fellowship of the Leak: Power Analysis of a Masked FrodoKEM Hardware Accelerator , (2025)
• Timed Physical Password or Authentication Keys , ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES (2025)
• A Hardware-Software Co-Design for the Discrete Gaussian Sampling of FALCON Digital Signature , 2024 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HARDWARE ORIENTED SECURITY AND TRUST, HOST (2024)
• Enabling Secure and Efficient Sharing of Accelerators in Expeditionary Systems , Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (2024)
• Extended Abstract: Pre-Silicon Vulnerability Assessment for AI/ML Hardware , PROCEEDING OF THE GREAT LAKES SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI 2024, GLSVLSI 2024 (2024)
• Leaking secrets in homomorphic encryption with side-channel attacks , JOURNAL OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING (2024)
• Masking FALCON’s Floating-Point Multiplication in Hardware , IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (2024)

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