Research

Research Interests

Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Computer Arithmetic and Architecture
Fault-Tolerant Computing
Computation for Cryptography and Error Control Coding

My Research Group

Dr. Heyssam El-Razouk, Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Mostafa Taha, Postdoctoral fellow
Ms. Dipanwita Gangopadhyay, Ph.D. candidate
Mr. Amin Monfared, Ph.D. candidate
Ms. Hu Xiaoting, visiting Ph.D. candidate
Ms. Doaa Ashmawy, MESc. candidate

Graduated Students

Dr. Heyssam El-Razouk (Ph.D. Aug. 2015). Thesis Title: Hardware Implementations for Symmetric Key Cryptosystems.
Mr. Amir A. K. Geran (MESc, Oct. 2014). Thesis title: A Multiple Bit Parity Fault Detection Scheme for The Advanced Encryption Standard Galois/Counter Mode.
Mr. Sasan Khoshro (MESc, May 2013).
- Thesis Title: Design and Evaluation of FPGA-based Hybrid Physically Unclonable Functions.
- Present Position: Design Engineer, Evertz Microsystems Ltd, Burlington, ON.
Dr. Ebrahim A. H. Abdulrahman (Ph.D. Dec. 2013).
- Thesis Title: Efficient Arithmetic for Implementations of Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
- Present Position: Assistant Prof., Dep. of Computer Engineering, University of Baharin.
Dr. Reza Azarderakhsk (Ph.D. Dec. 2011).
- Thesis Title: High Speed and Low-complexity Hardware Architectures for Point Multiplication on Binary Elliptic Curves.
- Present Position: Assistant Prof., Dep. of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Tech, USA.
Dr. Mehran Mozaffari-Kermani (MESc. April 2007 and Ph.D. Aug. 2011).
- Ph. D. Thesis Title: Reliable and High-Performance Hardware Architectures for the Advanced Encryption Standard/Galois Counter Mode.
- MESc Thesis title: .Fault Detection Schemes for High Performance VLSI Implementations of the Advanced Encryption Standard.
- Present Position: Assistant Prof., Dep. of Electrical & Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Tech, USA.
Dr. Arash Hariri (Ph.D. Aug. 2010).
- Thesis Title: Arithmetic Units for the Elliptic Curve Cryptography with Concurrent Error Detection Capability.
- Present Position: Member of Technical Staff ASIC/Layout Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Markham, ON.
Mr. Adem Aksoy (MESc Dec. 2009).
- Thesis/Project Title: Fault Detection in Montgomery Computation.
- Present Position: Senior Corporate Applications Engineer, Synopsys Canada, Mississauga, Ontario.
Mr. Mohsen Bahramali (MESC Dec. 2009, Co-suprevised with Prof. Jiang).
- Thesis Title: Security of Network-Based Control Systems.
- Present Position: Design Engineer, Evertz Microsystem, Burlington, Ontario.
Mr. Christopher Kennedy (MESc April 2009).
- Thesis Title: High Performance Hardware and Software Implementations of the Cyclic Redundancy Check Computation.
- Present Position: Design Engineer, Rianta Solutions, Kanata, ON.