Research Interests and Funded Projects

Research Interests

  1. Hardware (device, technology and logic) countermeasures against physical and side channel attacks
  2. Hardware security analysis, evaluation and methodologies
  3. Cryptographic hardware and embedded systems
  4. Efficient cross platform implementation (uCs, FPGAs and ASICs)
  5. Physical security - design against HW defaults and towards sound physical assumptions
  6. Physical security - interactions between HW/SW, algorithms and architectures for secured devices.
  7. Design of efficient physical entropy sources.
  8. Security as a whole on the architectural level  – Tampering, Faults, SCAs.
  9. Power reduction methodologies for implementing high speed and robust digital and mixed signal VLSI chips.
  10. Dual Mode Logic based circuit design techniques - from circuits to systems and control.

Funded Projects

  • Israel Science Foundation (ISF), individual research grant - 4 yr. 290K NIS per year, 2021-2025. "First Noise Then Mask: Concrete Hardware-Security Levels With Low Electronic-Cost"
  • Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Equipment Grant - 825K NIS
  • Pazy Foundation (Talmi), Joint with Rafael - 4 yr. ~250K NIS per year, 2022-2026. "Active and Reactive Physical-Security for Electronic Systems"
  • Bio-Chip Consortium (Israel Research and Innovation Authority) - 1.5 yr. 500K NIS, 2021-2023. "Hardware Security of Bio-IoT devices".
  • Israel Ministry of Defense - Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure - personal research grants 2021 1 yr 300K NIS, "EM side channels".
  • Israel Ministry of Defense - Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure - personal research grants 2022 1 yr 400K NIS, "Radio Channels based Side-channel attacks".