Regular biography
Jakub Szefer is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northwestern University. His research and teaching focus on security attacks and defenses at the computer architecture and hardware levels of computer systems. His work includes the security of processor architectures, reconfigurable logic, post-quantum cryptographic accelerators, and quantum computing systems. He leads the Computer Architecture and Security Lab (CASLAB) at Northwestern Engineering.
Scholar-generated biography
Jakub Szefer is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, specializing in computer security with a focus on hardware security. His research explores vulnerabilities and defenses in cloud computing, FPGA security, and quantum computer security. He investigates hypervisor vulnerabilities, covert channels, and side-channel attacks in modern computing systems. His work also includes code-based cryptography and hardware-based security primitives such as PUFs (Physically Unclonable Functions). Szefer's research emphasizes secure virtualization, FPGA acceleration, and mitigating transient execution attacks. His contributions span both theoretical and applied aspects of hardware and system security.