The STAM Center proudly congratulates three outstanding students, Mishel Jyothis Paul, Nges Brian Njungle, and Eric Jahns, on successfully completing their comprehensive examinations this semester. Mishel and Nges also advanced to PhD candidacy after additionally completing their prospectuses. The students successfully defended their comprehensive examinations before their PhD thesis committees under the guidance of their…

We are proud to share that Yi-Ting (Momo) Xiao has successfully defended her master’s thesis, “Accelerating Client-Side Homomorphic Encryption Operations in Edge Systems,” at Arizona State University. Her research addresses a growing challenge in modern computing. As devices such as wearable health monitors and smart sensors rely more on cloud services, protecting sensitive data during…

We are proud to congratulate U.S. Space Force Maj. Tyler Williams on completing his master’s degree in computer engineering at Arizona State University, and on the remarkable contributions he made while pursuing his studies at the STAM Center. As part of his Master’s thesis, Tyler conducted groundbreaking research exploring the potential of agentic AI in…

The Secure, Trusted, and Assured Microelectronics Center is proud to announce the graduation of Peter Moore and Anees Ahmad, two master’s students whose research tackled some of the most pressing challenges in modern computing: systems security and data privacy. Peter’s work focused on memory safe systems. Despite decades of mitigation efforts, memory corruption flaws remain…

During the past couple years many activities and events have taken place at the Secure, Trusted, and Assured Microelectronics (STAM) Center Center. We would like to take a moment and provide a digest to our support community. These are exciting times that offer new opportunities for research, education, collaboration, and outreach in the field of…