Finding what hardware leaks — and building AI that stops it.

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Akron, which I joined in August 2026. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in August 2026, where I conducted research in the MAIS Lab under the supervision of Dr. Berk Gulmezoglu. My dissertation is titled From Manual Exploration to Automated Analysis of Microarchitectural Threats.

My research explores how artificial intelligence can both expose and defend against side-channel attacks, working at the intersection of computer architecture and cybersecurity to make computing systems more secure without sacrificing performance. I investigate microarchitectural and software-level attack vectors, focusing on side-channel and speculative execution vulnerabilities, while also developing deep learning-based defenses against such attacks. My current research also explores trustworthy AI through behavioral attestation of large language models, adversarial robustness of learning-based security mechanisms, and LLM-assisted multi-agent techniques for reproducible security validation across architectures.