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Trustworthy Computing (TwC) Group

Faculty

  • Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos

Current Researchers

  • Lars Folkerts – Ph.D. candidate

  • Rostin Shokri – Ph.D. candidate

  • Oscar Hernan Olaya Gutierrez – Ph.D. student

  • Omar Ahmed – Ph.D. student

  • Jack Cartwright – Undergraduate Student

Past Researchers

  • Charles Gouert – Ph.D. Candidate

  • Dimitris Mouris – Ph.D. Candidate (first placement: Cryptography Researcher at Nillion)

  • Omar Ahmed – M.Sc. thesis student

  • Christos Madamopoulos – Undergraduate REU scholar

  • Melqui Aguirre – Graduate intern

  • Jhan Carlos Diaz Vidal – Graduate intern

  • SuoAn (Enoch) Gao – Graduate student

  • Brandon Bauer – Undergraduate REU scholar

  • Mihailo Knezevic – Graduate intern

  • Brandon Cox – Graduate independent study

  • Manish Chaudhary – M.Sc. Thesis Student

  • Nicholas Kater – Undergraduate Student

  • Ethan Conway – Undergraduate Student

  • Paul Zaloga – Undergraduate Student

  • Maggie McGrath – Undergraduate Student

  • Ryan Peterson – Undergraduate Student

Funded Projects of Nektarios Tsoutsos

  • NSF 2239334 CAREER: Accelerating General-Purpose Encrypted Computation on Diverse Hardware (07/23 - 06/28), Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Budget: $534k, Role: Principal Investigator

  • NSF 2336586 CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Defending Cyberspace through Active Learning (01/24 - 12/28), Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Budget: $3.43M, Role: co-Principal Investigator

  • NSF 2336586 (supplement) Active Learning in Microelectronics: A Community Approach (09/24 - 08/25), Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Budget: $337k, Role: co-Principal Investigator

  • NSF 2234974 Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Data-Driven Cybersecurity Research Infrastructure for Smart Manufacturing (04/23 – 03/26), Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Budget: $294k (UD share), Role: Principal Investigator (UD)

  • NSF 1931916 CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Frequency Domain Conversion of Computer Aided Design Files to Enable Encryption, Authentication and Feature Search Function (09/19 - 08/21), Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Budget: $165k (UD share), Role: Principal Investigator (UD)

  • DE EE0008768-006 Faster-than-real-time Simulation with Demonstration for Resilient DER Integration (11/19 - 10/23), Sponsor: Department of Energy (DoE)/Electrical Distribution Design, Budget: $253k (UD/ECE share), Role: Principal Investigator (UD/ECE)

  • JPMC 21 Cybersecurity Certificate Program (02/21 - 02/23) Sponsor: JPMorgan Chase, Budget: $450k, Role: co-Principal Investigator

  • UDRF 21 Zilch: A Framework for Remote Verification of Security Properties using Zero Knowledge Proofs (06/21 - 06/23), Sponsor: University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF), Budget: $38.5k, Role: Principal Investigator

  • AVC 22 Mobile ID: Investigating digital identification technologies (06/22 - 12/24) Sponsor: Arkansas Venture Center/Discover Bank, Budget: $250k, Role: Principal Investigator

Ongoing Research Directions

  • Design for Privacy: Computer-assisted conversion of high-level programs into equivalent homomorphic circuits

  • Design for Verifiability: Verifiable computation of arbitrary algorithms using high-level languages

  • Homomorphic RISC Processors: Encrypted computer design with support for reduced instruction sets

  • Leakage Tracking & Resilience: Quantifying and mitigating side-channel leakage in encrypted processors