Covert-channels in FPGA-enabled SmartSSDs
T. Trochatos, A. Etim and J. Szefer, Covert-channels in FPGA-enabled SmartSSDs, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. 2024.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
Yale University (2021-2026)
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Yale University (2021-2022)
Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens (2015-2021)
Work experience
- Fall 2021 - Now: Research Assistant, Yale University
- Thesis: Trusted Execution Environments for Quantum Computers
- Supervisor: Professor Jakub Szefer
- Summer 2024: Corporate Intern, Caterpillar Inc., Chicago, Illinois
- Built a RAG/AI agent using Python, wrapped it up in a FastAPI server and put it inside a Docker container, hosted on AWS and using the Cloud Development Kit to facilitate interaction with PDF documents, enabling users to pose specific questions and receive precise answers from the text minimizing hallucinations
- Deployed Pylint standards to ensure code quality and Pytest or Unittest packages for unit testing
- Summer 2021: Research Intern, Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Explored and identified software-exploitable hardware bugs in PULP RISC-V platform through extensive analysis and testing using Verilog and participated in the HACK@SEC21 hackathon
- Worked in a multidisciplinary team to document findings and provide recommendations for future improvements in secure SoC design
Publications
A Quantum Computer Trusted Execution Environment
T. Trochatos, C. Xu, S. Deshpande, Y.Lu, Y. Ding and J. Szefer, A Quantum Computer Trusted Execution Environment, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2023.
Design of Quantum Computer Antivirus
S. Deshpande, C. Xu, T. Trochatos, H. Wang, F.Erata, S.Han, Y. Ding and J. Szefer, Towards an Antivirus for Quantum Computers, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2023.
Towards an antivirus for quantum computers
S. Deshpande, C. Xu, T. Trochatos, Y. Ding and J. Szefer, Towards an Antivirus for Quantum Computers, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2022.
Teaching
- Spring 2024: EENG 348 Digital Systems
- Professor Rajit Manohar
- Spring 2023: CPSC 520 Computer Architecture
- Professor Abhishek Bhattacharjee