About Me

I am a 3rd year PhD student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder under the supervision of Prof. Tamara Silbergleit Lehman. My research focuses on creating and implementing security metrics for computer hardware systems.

I obtained, at the University of Colorado Boulder, my MSc in Electrical Engineering in 2024 and my BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2022. During my undergraduate degree, I researched applications of VR/AR to lunar robotics under the guidance of Prof. Jack O. Burns.

I also interned at Apple in Cupertino, CA over the summer of 2024. I worked with the CoreOS – Vector & Numerics group to accelerate machine learning.

You can reach me at: phaedra.curlin{at}colorado.edu

Publications

P. S. Curlin, J. Heiges, C. Chan, and T. S. Lehman, “A Survey of Hardware-Based AES SBoxes: Area, Performance, and Security,” ACM Computing Surveys 57, 9, Article 229, 2025.

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S. Thomas, K. Workneh, A.-T. Ishimwe, Z. McKevitt, P. Curlin, R. I. Bahar, J. Izraelevitz, and T. Lehman, “Baobab Merkle Tree for Efficient Secure Memory,” IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 23, no. 1, 2024.

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Abstracts & Posters

P. Curlin, C. Chan, and T. Lehman, “S-box designs for an open-source AES ASIC,” Young Fellows Program in conjunction with the 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023.

P. Curlin, C. Chan, and T. Lehman, “An ASIC implementation of an open-source AES engine,” in 8th Career Workshop for Inclusion and Diversity in Computer Architecture in conjunction with the 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-55), 2022.

P. Curlin, M. Muniz, M. Bell, A. Muniz, and J. Burns, “Virtual reality digital twin and environment for troubleshooting lunar-based infrastructure assembly failures,” in 5th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions for HRI in conjunction with the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022.

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Artifact Evaluation Committee Member

2025: ISCA.