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Hardware Security
Side-channel attacks, fault injection, covert channels, and integrated countermeasures. Physical unclonable functions, true random number generators, and hardware Trojans across CMOS, SFQ, and chiplet platforms.
Hardware that computes with physics — and is secure by design.
Hardware security · on-chip power delivery · superconducting electronics · CMOS Ising machines · quantum interfaces
Energy-efficient circuits, secure hardware, cryogenic electronics, physics-based computation.
We are the Köse Research Group at the University of Rochester, designing energy-efficient, secure, and physics-inspired hardware. Our work spans hardware security, on-chip power delivery, superconducting electronics, CMOS Ising machines, and quantum computing.
Side-channel attacks, fault injection, covert channels, and integrated countermeasures. Physical unclonable functions, true random number generators, and hardware Trojans across CMOS, SFQ, and chiplet platforms.
Distributed voltage regulators, on-chip reconfigurable DC-DC converters, decoupling capacitor allocation, and power delivery for 3-D integrated systems. Co-design of power and clock networks.
Single-flux-quantum logic, Suzuki stack circuits, Josephson-CMOS interfaces, and cryogenic memory. Side-channel and built-in self-test methods for SFQ designs operating at 4 K and below.
Probabilistic and oscillator-based Ising machines for combinatorial optimization, LDPC decoding, and other NP-hard problems. Sub-harmonic injection-locked oscillator arrays and multi-body interaction architectures.
Security and reliability of the classical-quantum interface. Side-channel leakage in qubit control and readout systems, attacks on superconductive control electronics, and protective design methodologies for next-generation quantum hardware.
The group's five thrusts are not silos — most active projects sit on an edge between two or three. Tap a node on the diagram to see what lives at each intersection.
Previously taught Digital Logic (ECE 112) and Performance Issues in IC/VLSI Design at Rochester, and a range of courses at the University of South Florida (2012–2019), including High Performance Integrated Circuit Design, Senior Design Project (Design II), and Introduction to Electrical Systems.
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Open pageSelçuk Köse is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester. He joined Rochester as Associate Professor in 2019, became full Professor in 2024, and assumes the role of Chair in summer 2026. He previously served on the faculty of the University of South Florida (2012–2019), first as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor.
He received his BSc from Bilkent University in 2006 and his MS (2008) and PhD (2012) from the University of Rochester, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Industry experience includes the VLSI Design Center at TÜBİTAK (Ankara, 2006), the Central Technology and Special Circuits group in Intel's enterprise microprocessor division (Santa Clara, summers 2007 and 2008), the CMOS Image Sensors R&D Laboratory at Eastman Kodak (Rochester, 2009), and the Microwave and Mixed-Signal Laboratory at Freescale Semiconductor (Tempe, 2010).
His research interests include hardware security with a focus on side-channel and fault-injection attacks, covert channels, PUFs, true random number generators, and hardware Trojans; on-chip power delivery and reconfigurable voltage regulation; cryogenic electronics and quantum computing; CMOS-based Ising machines for combinatorial optimization; and 3-D integration. He has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award (2014), USF College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Research Achievement Award (2014), USF Outstanding Faculty Award (2016), Cisco Research Awards (2015, 2016, 2017), and the USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2017). He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, the Microelectronics Journal, and Springer Nature Computer Science, and previously for IEEE TCAS-I.