Dr. Aysu is an associate professor and University Faculty Fellow at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of North Carolina State University, where he leads HECTOR: Hardware Cybersecurity Research Lab. He got his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin before joining NC State. Dr. Aysu’s interests are broadly in hardware security research and cybersecurity education. His hardware security research has won the NSF CAREER, Google Research Scholar, Bennet Faculty Fellow, and Goodnight Innovation Fellow awards, three best paper awards from DATE, HASP, and GLS-VLSI, two IEEE CEDA hardware security top picks, one IEEE Micro top picks, and one DAC publicity paper award. He is also the president of mithrilAI, an early-stage start-up developing secure AI hardware.
