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General Information

Full Name M. Caner Tol
E-mail mtol@wpi.edu
Languages Turkish, English

Education

  • Present
    PhD
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
    • Advisor - Prof. Berk Sunar
  • 2022
    MS
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
    • Advisor - Prof. Berk Sunar
  • 2019
    BS
    Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey
    • Advisor - Dr. Yesim Serinagaoglu

Academic Interests

  • Microarchitectural Security
    • Automatic detection of side-channels using AI
  • ML Security
    • Side-channel and Fault Injection attacks on ML models

Experience

  • 2019 - Present
    Research and Teaching Assistant
    Vernam Lab, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    • Research on ML applications of GAN, Transformer models, and other NLP techniques on Microarchitectural side-channel attacks and time series data, and fault attacks on ML models.
  • 2022-2022
    Hardware Security Intern
    NVIDIA
    • Developed a ML-based tool for automatic detection of side-channel leakage on CUDA libraries using GPU hardware performance counters.