Jakub Szefer

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Room / Office: Dunham 519
Office Address:
10 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208267
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone: (203) 432-1275
Fax: (203) 432-7481
Email: jakub.szefer@yale.edu
Degrees:
  • Ph.D., Princeton University
  • M.A., Princeton University
  • B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Interests:

Jakub Szefer's research interests are at the intersection of computer architecture and hardware security. Jakub's recent projects focus on: security verification of processor architectures; hardware (FPGA) implementation of cryptographic algorithms, especially post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms; designs of new Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs); and leveraging physical properties of computer hardware for new cryptographic and security applications.

Selected Awards & Honors:

  • Bell Labs Prize Finalist, 2022
  • ACM Senior Member, 2022
  • Yale University's Ackerman Award for Teaching and Mentoring, 2021
  • IEEE Senior Member, 2019
  • National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2017

Selected Publications:

  • Wen Wang, Shanquan Tian, Bernhard Jungk, Nina Bindel, Patrick Longa, and Jakub Szefer, "Parameterized Hardware Accelerators for Lattice-Based Cryptography and Their Application to the HW/SW Co-Design of qTESLA", in Proceedings of the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), September 2020.
  • Ilias Giechaskiel, Kasper Rasmussen, and Jakub Szefer, "CAPSULe: Cross-FPGA Covert-Channel Attacks through Power Supply Unit Leakage", in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2020.
  • Wenjie Xiong, and Jakub Szefer, "Leaking Information Through Cache LRU States", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2020.
  • Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, and Jakub Szefer, "Secure TLBs", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019.
  • Nikolay Matyunin, Jakub Szefer, and Stefan Katzenbeisser, "Zero-Permission Acoustic Cross-Device Tracking", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), May 2018. (Best Student Paper Winner).
  • Wen Wang, Jakub Szefer, and Ruben Niederhagen, "FPGA-based Key Generator for the Niederreiter Cryptosystem using Binary Goppa Codes" in Proceedings of the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), September 2017.
  • André Schaller, Wenjie Xiong, Muhammad Umair Salee, Nikolaos A. Anagnostopoulos, Stefan Katzenbeisser, and Jakub Szefer, "Intrinsic Rowhammer PUFs: Leveraging the Rowhammer Effect for Improved Security" in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), May 2017. (Best Student Paper Finalist)
  • Wen Wang, Jakub Szefer, and Ruben Niederhagen. "Solving Large Systems of Linear Equations over GF(2) on FPGAs." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, ReConFig, November 2016.
  • Wenjie Xiong, Andre Schaller, Nikolaos A. Anagnostopoulos, Muhammad Umair Saleem, Sebastian Gabmeyer, Stefan Katzenbeisser, and Jakub Szefer. "Run-time Accessible DRAM PUFs in Commodity Devices." In Proceedings of the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES, August 2016.

Books:

  • Jakub Szefer, "Principles of Secure Processor Architecture Design", Morgan & Claypool Publishers, October 2018.

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