CERG Team: Masters Students

John Pham

Contact

3100 Engineering Building George Mason University ECE Department, CERG 4400 University Drive, MS 1G5 Fairfax, VA 22030

Office: Engineering Building, Room 3231 Phone (lab): 703-993-1609 E-Mail: [email protected] PGP Key ID: A0FAEB9C

Research Interest

• Thesis Topic
  • Low energy crypto on reconfigurable hardware
• Concurrently being pursued
  • Microcontroller/Embedded firmware Development
• Other areas of interest
  • Energy harvesting on sensor nodes
  • HPC with FPGAs, GPUs, and other specialized hardware
  • ASIC Development

Advisor: Dr. Jens-Peter Kaps

Biography

John is currently an RA for CERG at GMU. He is currently working towards his MSCpE at GMU, and was previously an undergraduate at GMU, completing his BSCpE in Spring 2009. John has previously worked in IT support positions at GMU and Unisys.

Publications

• J.-P. Kaps, P. Yalla, K.K. Surapathi, B. Habib, S. Vadlamudi, S. Gurung, and J. Pham, Lightweight implementations of SHA-3 candidates on FPGAs, Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), volume 7107, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pages 270–289, Dec, 2011 [pre-print, pdf] [Bibtex]