Center Members

Leadership

Michel A. Kinsy

Center Director

Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI), Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University. Dr. Kinsy focuses his research on microelectronics security, secure computer systems, hardware-level security, and efficient hardware design of post-quantum cryptography systems. Before joining the ASU faculty, Dr. Kinsy was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the Associate Director of the Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center. He also held faculty positions at Boston University and University of Oregon. From 2013 to 2014, he was a fully-cleared Member of the Technical Staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a researcher at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies from 2009 to 2013. Dr. Kinsy is an MIT Presidential Fellow and an Inaugural Skip Ellis Career Award recipient. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2013 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Administrative Staff

Wendy Johnson

Program Manager

Mrs. Johnson manages the center operations. She serves as the main point of contact for the center projects team members (both internal and external). She works closely with the director, researchers, students, affiliated faculty, academic collaborators, and industry partners to ensure the effective execution of the center’s operations. Prior to joining the STAM Center, Mrs. Johnson was the Project Coordinator for the BRAIN Center in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering.

Education
Master of Advanced Study, Arizona State University
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Arizona State University

Marijosse Tostado

Administrative Assistant

Ms. Tostado assists with daily operations of the center including administrative and event support. She manages the front desk and center’s social media. She works with the Director and Program Manager to support the center’s research, education, and outreach efforts. She is very passionate about helping others and currently completing her bachelor’s degree in Politics and Economics.

Education
Bachelor of Science in Politics and the Economy, Arizona State University (In progress)
Accent Français, Montpellier, France – Abroad School, 2019
Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona – Business, 2021

Lead Researchers

Alan Ehret

CAES Laboratory Principal Investigator

Assistant Research Professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI), Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University. Dr. Ehret’s research focuses on (i) the design of low-power hardware root-of-trust architectures for IoT and embedded systems and (ii) addressing the security challenges created by micro-architecture support for remote shared memory in multi-tenant (HPC) systems. In the low-power hardware root-of-trust design space, he has developed an architecture that leverages configurable hardware modules to monitor the state of an application’s execution and enforce security policies at runtime. Dr. Ehret received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Miami University and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University.

Current Research Focus Mr. Ehret is investigating and design micro-architecture support for hardware-enforced access permissions maintains security and privacy guarantees. His research aims to enable HPC systems to scale up applications across large numbers of nodes without sacrificing application privacy.

Andy Glew

Professor of Practice

Mr. Glew is a Computer Architect and an industry veteran, with a career spanning almost 40 years. He was a Computer Architect at Intel and AMD, and a Principal Computer Architect at SiFive, Nvidia, and Imagination Technologies, and MIPS Technologies. He is best known for being one of the five principal architects of the Intel P6 Pentium Pro processor, the most profitable CPU microarchitecture in history. Mr. Glew holds over 120 patents. He is an Intel Achievement Award recipient. He has a B.Eng. (EE) degree from McGill University in 1985, an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MSEE) from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with the Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing in 1991, had four years of computer science doctoral training from University of Wisconsin (1996-2000).

Current Research Focus Mr. Glew focuses his research on Computer Architecture with an emphasis on instruction set architecture (ISA) design, microarchitecture, and computer security, including capabilities and code/control flow integrity. Mr. Glew has joined the ASU STAM Center because he hopes that now is the time for real computer security.

Bryant W. York

Senior Researcher

Dr. York earned the A.B. in Mathematics from Brandeis University (1967), the M.S. in Management from MIT (1971), the M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1981) in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM San Jose Research Labs (1979-1983), a Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Artificial Intelligence Center (1983-1986), associate professor of computer science at Boston University (1986 – 1991) and Northeastern University (1991 – 2001), and professor of computer science at Portland State University (2001 – 2019). He also served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation (1990-1991); served on the advisory committee to the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) of NSF (1992-1998, 2002-2006); and served on the advisory committee to the Education and Human Resources Directorate (EHR) of NSF (2008 – 2014).

Current Research Focus Post-quantum cryptography, computational algebra, and crystallographic computations.

Kevin W. Rudd

Visiting Professor

Dr. Rudd is a Computer Systems Researcher at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences and formerly led the Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering team. He has performed research in the areas of advanced computer architecture, emerging memory technology, and rapid development and deployment. He is the sole or first inventor on four hardware–software co-design patents. Dr. Rudd has worked in government, industry, academia, and the military and received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Current Research Focus Dr. Rudd is working on enterprise-class computer architecture enhancements extending commodity architectures (like Arm and RISC-V) to support large address spaces providing scalability, abstraction, and safety & security.

Ashif Iquebal

Assistant Professor/Center Affiliate

Dr. Ashif Iquebal is an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at ASU. Prior to this, he obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering (2020) and a Master’s degree in Statistics (2019) from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on developing methodological foundations in data science and machine learning, particularly on statistical representation and quantification of high-dimensional data, active learning, and inverse models with applications in smart and cyber manufacturing. He received the Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) in 2021. In the past, his research papers were recognized as winners/finalists for five best student paper/poster awards at INFORMS, IISE, and the American Statistical Association conferences.

Research Project: Develop a new agent-based methodology for secure federated smart manufacturing (FSM).