Berk Sunar, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Berk Sunar

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Professor, Dean’s Excellence and Joseph Samuel Satin Fellow

Affiliated with:

Cybersecurity

Education:

BS Middle East Technical University 1995

PhD Oregon State University 1998

I received my PhD in ECE from Oregon State University in December 1998 and worked briefly as a member of the research faculty at OSU's Information Security Laboratory. In 2000 I joined WPI as an assistant professor. My research interests include cryptography and data security; I head the Cryptography and Information Security Laboratory, whose mission is to address security problems and develop new security technologies to ensure the safety of all facets of the communication and computing infrastructure.

Office Location

Atwater Kent 302

Contact

Phone:

+1-508-831-5494

sunar@wpi.edu

Lab website

Cryptography & Information Security (CRIS) Laboratory

Research Interests

Research Interests:

Cryptography

Network Security

High Performance Computing

Scholarly Work

Transparent Code Authentication at the Processor Level - 2009

Memory Leakage-Resilient Encryption Based on Physically Unclonable Functions, Frederik Armknecht, Roel Maes, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Berk Sunar and Pim Tuyls, In: Matsui, M (eds). Proceedings of AsiaCrypt 2009, pp. 685-702, Tokyo, Japan, December 6-10, 2009.

Arbitrage-free pricing of XVA - Part II: PDE representation and numerical analysis, with M. Bichuch and A. Capponi (submitted; Preprint, 19 pages, 4 figures; also available at SSRN; arXiv)

Ghaith Hammouri, Aykutlu Dana, Berk Sunar, CDs Have Fingerprints Too. In: Clavier, C., Gaj, K., (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2009), LNCS, vol. 5747, pp. 348-362, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (2009)

A.O. Durahim, E. Savas, B. Sunar, , T. B. Pedersen, O. Kocabas Transparent Code Authentication at the Processor Level, IET Computers & Digital Techniques, Volume 3, Issue 4, pages 354-372, July 2009.

Ghaith Hammouri, Berk Sunar. PUF-HB: A Tamper-Resilient HB based Authentication Protocol Applied Cryptography and Network Security: Proceedings, Steven M. Bellovin et al (Eds., 6th International Conference, ACNS 2008, LNCS 5037, pp. 346-365, Springer-Verlag, 2008.