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.
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.
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.
Graduate Research May 2022 – Mar 2025 The SBox – the most important component of the AES algorithm. TVLA setup for AES SBoxes using the CW305 with Artix FPGA Target. ‹ › I worked on creating of an open-source, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) engine for Sandia National Laboratory. My focus was on the AES SBox, the most important step of the AES algorithm. This included implementing multiple designs using Verilog with different levels of countermeasures (masking, thresholding) to be realized on an ASIC prototype. I also studied the different trade-offs (performance, security, area, power) based on state-of-the art implementations to better understand the properties of cryptographic ASICs. ...
Undergraduate Club Sep 2018 – May 2022 3D rendering of rover chassis. MSP432 and x-io IMU testing. Original rover design. ‹ › The University Rover Challenge is a yearly competition hosted by the Mars Society and held in Hanksville, Utah with the aim to promote human exploration and settlement on Mars. This competition specifically focuses on rovers that could possibly one day assist astronauts on the Martian surface. This multi-day event is composed of four missions that bring many aspects of engineering, biology, and geology together to design the best and most most capable rover! ...
Senior Design Project Sep 2021 – May 2022 FID Frequency Extraction Engine board. Our team's logo. ‹ › Current methods for measuring the magnetic field produced by the brain are expensive and cumbersome. FieldLine Inc. has developed a magnetometer that does not require the use of shielded rooms and can provide data in real-time. For our senior design project, we created a frequency extraction engine to be used with our sponsor’s Free Induction Decay magnetometers. See our project here. ...
Undergraduate Research Mar 2020 – May 2022 Digital Armstrong rover twin in lunar environment. Physical Armstrong rover in lab hallway. ‹ › NASA will return to the Moon to conduct lunar and space science as well as prepare for human exploration missions. NASA’s current rover failure response methods use hardware duplicates which are costly and time consuming to assemble. To address this, we developed and assessed a VR digital rover twin in a simulated environment using novel technologies to support lunar robotic missions like FARSIDE in case of assembly failures. ...