Attila Altay Yavuz, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity and Computing, University of South Florida
4202 E Fowler Ave, ENG 117, Tampa, FL 33620
Congratulations to Dr. Saif E. Nouma for his Ph.D. graduation! (2026)
One paper got accepted to ACM Transactions of Internet Things (2026)
One arXiv preprint (2601.00353v1) published on Breach-Resilient Authenticated Encryption Framework for IoTs (2026)
Attila serves on PC for Usenix 2026 and IEEE SVCC 2026
One paper got accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (2025)
One paper got accepted to IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (2025)
One book chapter got accepted to Armasuisse Science and Technology (2025)
One paper got accepted to Internet of Things (2025)
One paper got accepted to Journal of Security and Privacy (Wiley) (2025)
One paper got accepted to IEEE TDSC (2025)
Two papers got accepted to IEEE Access (2025)
One papers got accepted to ACM WiSec (2025)
One papers got accepted to IEEE Milcom (2025)
One papers got accepted to IEEE CNS (2025)
Received the Best Paper Award: IEEE S&P Worshop HMI-SA (2025)!
One papers got accepted to IEEE SVCC (2025)
One papers got accepted to IEEE VTC (2025)
Attila serves as a Program Co-Chair for ACM CCS Workshop on Quantum-Resistant Cryptography and Security! (2025)
One patent granted (US12284290B2) on publicly verifiable and resilient symmetric authentication and privacy systems (2025)
One patent granted (US12231568B2) on Algebraic proof-of-work algorithm for blockchains (2025)
One arXiv preprint (2502.04915) published on Securing 5G Bootstrapping with Two-Layer IBS Scheme (2025)
Attila serves as a Program Co-Chair for IEEE TPS 2025!
Attila serves on PC for Usenix 2025 and IEEE SVCC 2025
Attila received ``NSF-SNSF: A Resilient and Efficient Cyber-security Fabric and Evaluation Framework for Future Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks (SATUQ)" Grant as NSF Principle Investigator! (2024)
Attila received ``SaTC: CORE: Medium: Distributed Computing in Effect: Towards Trustworthy, Resilient and Secure NextG Mobile Networks" NSF Grant as Principle Investigator! (2024)
Attila received ``Perceptive and Reactive Autonomous Navigation in Challenging Environments (PRANCE): Additively Manufactured Multidimensional Cryptographic Physically Unclonable Functions for Wireless System Security" grant from Army Research Laboratory as Co-PI! (2024)
Attila received the Cisco Research Award thrice! - Trustworthy Digital Forensics for Heterogeneous Internet of Things (2022)
Attila received The USF The Excellence in Innovation Award! (2022)
Congratulations to Dr. Rouzbeh Behnia for graduating and securing Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position at MUMA College of Business at USF!
Attila received Distinguished Research Award from Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Institute! (2020)
Attila received The USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award! (both University-wide and CoE-wide) (2020)
Attila received The USF College of Engineering (CoE)’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award! (2020)
Attila nominated for The USF The Excellence in Innovation Award ! (2020)
Congratulations to Dr. Thang Hoang for graduating and securing Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position at Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech!
Attila received the Cisco Research Award twice!! - Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Platforms (2020)
Attila received Internal Grants for The Center for Cryptographic Research and COVID-19 Response from USF twice! (2020)
Attila received Unrestricted Research Gift from Robert Bosch! - Distributed ORAM and File Systems
Attila received Cisco Research Award! - Lightweight and Quantum-Safe Authentication for Internet of Things
Attila received Unrestricted Research Gift from Robert Bosch on Privacy Enhancing Technologies! (2019)
Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Grissa for graduating and securing a top-notch research development position at Gradient!
Attila received NSF CAREER AWARD! (2017)
Short Bio
Dr. Attila Altay Yavuz is an Associate Professor in the Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity, and Computing and the Director of the Applied Cryptography Research Laboratory at the University of South Florida (USF). He served as an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University (2014-2018) and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at USF (2018-2021). Before this, he was a member of the security and privacy research group at the Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center North America (2011-2014). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University (2011) and his MS in Computer Science from Bogazici University (2006) in Turkey. He has broad interests in the design, analysis, and application of cryptographic tools and protocols to enhance the security of computer systems. Attila Altay Yavuz is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Cisco Research Awards (awarded four times - 2019, 2020,2022, 2025), unrestricted research gifts from Robert Bosch (five times), the USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award, the USF Excellence in Innovation Award, and the USF College of Engineering’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award. His research on privacy-enhancing technologies and intra-vehicular network security has transitioned into practice with worldwide deployments, positively impacting tens of millions of users across the globe. He has authored more than 120 publications including research articles in top conferences, journals, and patents.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor, Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity, and Computing, University of South Florida (June 2021 - present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida (May 2018 - June 2021)
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University (August 2014 - August 2018)
Research Scientist, Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center (December 2011- July
2014)
Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, NC State University (2007-2011)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, NC State University (2007-2011)
Research Engineer, Satellite Networks Research Laboratory (SATLAB), Bogazici University,
Turkey, (2005-2006)
Summer Intern, Department of Computer Science, NC State University, USA, 2003
I have a broad interest in the design, analysis, and application of cryptographic tools and protocols to enhance the security of computer networks and systems. My current research focuses on the following topics: privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., secure multi-party computation, searchable encryption), practical aspects of post-quantum cryptography, trustworthy machine learning, digital signatures, and cryptographic protocols for critical cyber infrastructures and next-generation networks (e.g., 5G/cellular, vehicular networks, smart grids).
Grants
My research has been generously funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Department of Energy (DoE), Robert Bosch LLC, Cisco, University of South Florida (USF), Oregon State University (OSU), and nVidia.
Funded Projects
Quantum-Resistant Networks and Systems: Primitives, Protocols, and Best Practices
Sponsor: Cisco Research Award
Duration: 07/2025 - 07/2026
Co-PI: Attila A. Yavuz (with 3 other PIs)
NSF-SNSF: A Resilient and Efficient Cyber-security Fabric and Evaluation Framework for Future Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks (SATUQ)
Sponsor: NSF (ECCS 2444615)
Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2027
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (NSF PI)
Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Distributed Computing in Effect: Towards Trustworthy, Resilient and Secure NextG Mobile Networks
Sponsor: NSF (CNS 2350213)
Duration: 07/2024 - 07/2028
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (PI, with 3 other Co-PIs)
Perceptive and Reactive Autonomous Navigation in Challenging Environments (PRANCE): Additively Manufactured Multidimensional Cryptographic Physically Unclonable Functions for Wireless System Security
Sponsor: Army Research Laboratory
Duration: 05/2024 - 05/2027
Co-PI: Attila A. Yavuz (with 3 other PIs)
CAREER: Lightweight and Fast Authentication for Internet of Things
Sponsor: NSF (CNS 1652389)
Duration: 03/2017 - 09/2024
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (Sole)
Trustworthy Digital Forensics for Heterogeneous Internet of Things
Sponsor: Cisco Research Award
Duration: 01/2022 - present
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (Sole)
Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Platforms
Sponsor: Cisco Research Award
Duration: 09/2020 - present
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (Sole)
Distributed Oblivious Random Access Machines
Sponsor: Robert Bosch (unrestricted gift)
Duration: 12/2019 - present
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (Sole)
Lightweight and Quantum-Safe Authentication for Internet of Things
Sponsor: Cisco Research Award
Duration: 06/2019 - present
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (Sole)
The Center for Cryptographic Research (Internal Grant)
Low-cost, Scalable and Practical Post Quantum Key Distribution
Sponsor: Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) - DoE
Duration: 08/2019 - 09/2020
PIs: Attila A. Yavuz (PI)
Distributed Oblivious Random Access Techniques for Cloud Infrastructures
Sponsor: Robert Bosch (unrestricted gift)
Duration: 12/2018 - present
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (Sole)
Light-Weight, Delay-Aware and Scalable Cryptographic Services for Smart Grid System
Sponsor: Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) - DoE
Duration: 09/2015 - 09/2020
PIs: Attila A. Yavuz (Co-PI), Rakesh Bobba, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Jinsub Kim
Towards Practical Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Sponsor: Robert Bosch (unrestricted gift)
Duration: 09/2014 - 09/2018
PI: Attila A. Yavuz (Sole)
EECS RIU Initiative
Sponsor: OSU
Duration: 04/2017 - 12/2017
PIs: Attila A. Yavuz (PI), Jesse Walker
Publication
Copyright Note: The articles are copyrighted by the respective publishers and may be downloaded only
for personal use. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Underlined authors are my current/former advisees (Ph.D./M.S) at the time of initial submission/completion of the work. In my field, it is typical for faculty members to appear after their advisees in authorship lists.
2026
[J] Lightweight and High-Throughput Secure Logging for Internet of Things and Cold Cloud Continuum
Saif E. Nouma and Attila A. Yavuz
ACM Trans. Internet Things, Vol. 20, No. 6, Article, January 2026
[C] Counter Denial of Service for Next-Generation Networks within the Artificial Intelligence and Post-Quantum Era
Saleh Darzi and Attila A. Yavuz
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS), Washington, DC.,October 2024.
[C] Fast and Post-Quantum Authentication for Real-time Next Generation Networks with Bloom Filter
Kiarash Sedghighadikolaei and Attila A. Yavuz
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS), Washington, DC.,October 2024.
[P] A System and Method for Privacy-preserving and Post-quantum Secure Counter Denial of Service for Spectrum Management in Next-Generation Wireless Networks
Morgan Hausmann (WICSE Program - NSF CAREER, 2019)
Aaya Watson (BullsEYE - NSF CAREER, 2019)
Mentorship at OSU:
Garrett Christophe Haley (EECS Capstone, OSU 2018)
Andrew Ekstedt (EECS Capstone, OSU 2018)
Scott Merrill (EECS Capstone, OSU 2018)
Erich Hansje Kramer (EECS RIU Initiative, OSU 2017)
Matt Baker (EECS RIU Initiative, OSU 2017)
Nathan Burnett (EECS RIU Initiative, OSU 2017)
Joshua Webb (NSF-FUND STEM Leaders Program, OSU 2017)
Previous Mentoring
Mentorship at Bosch and University of Pittsburgh: During my tenure at Robert Bosch Research Center and University of Pittsburgh (adjunct faculty), I found the opportunity of advising excellent graduate students via internships and/or joint university projects
Shalabh Jain
Velin Kounev
Alana Libonati
Shauna Michelle Policicchio
Anvesh Ragi
Teaching
I teach following courses at USF:
CIS 4212/6214: Privacy-Preserving and Trustworthy Cyber-Infrastructures (Spring 2019-2026)
CIS 4930/6930 Cryptography: Theory and Practice (Fall 2025)
COP 4538 IT Data Structures (Fall 2019-2024)
CIS 4930/6930 Cryptography: Theory and Practice (Fall 2022-2023)
CIS 4930/6930 Privacy-Preserving and Trustworthy Cyber-Infrastructures (Spring 2019)
In ACRL, we have developed and open-sourced a vast array of cryptographic software and tools for public testing and potential adaptations. Some of our selected open-source software are as below:
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2022), Security and Privacy Track Chair
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2022
Senior Membership Elevation Committee (2020-2021)
IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS), (2020-2021)
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2020
32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), 2018-2020
Military Communication Conference (Milcom), 2019
30rd Annual The Web Conference (formerly known as WWW conference), 2019
2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy for the Internet-of-Things (IoTSec), 2019
IEEE SmartGridComm, 2018
IEEE IEMCON, 2018
IEEE International Workshop on Big Data Security and Services, 2018
ACM International Workshop on Trustworthy Embedded Devices (TrustED), 2014-2016
Advanced Intrusion Detection and Prevention Workshop (AIDP 2014), 2014.
3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Cloud (CollabCloud), 2014
The Third ASE International Conference on Cyber Security, 2014
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2014-2025)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2014-2025)
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (2024-2025)
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (2024)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2024)
IEEE Transactions on Network and Management Systems Services Computing (2024)
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (2017-2024)
ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies (TOIT) (2022-2023)
Future Generation of Computer Systems, Elsevier (2016, 2021)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (2012-2014, 2020)
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2014-2015, 2020)
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2017)
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2014-2016)
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2014-2016)
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (2016)
Future Generation of Computer Systems, Elsevier (2016)
IEEE Transactions on Education (2015)
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (2015)
Journal of Computer Security (2013-2014)
International Journal of Communication Systems by Wiley (2013-2014)
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2011)
Journal of System and Software (2007-2011)
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2007)
Outreach Activities
I have been organizing and/or participating several outreach activities targeting underrepresented groups.
The CodeBreakHERS: I am the co-organizer of a cybersecurity camp, in which we train more than 50 K-12 female students via hands-on cryptography activities every summer.
Contributing to the preparation of educational videos on advanced cryptographic primitives, Center for Cryptographic Research at USF.
WICSE: With Women in Computer Science and Engineering (WICSE) program, we recruit underrepresented female undergraduates at CSE USF every year (participation)
Bulls - EYE: With Bulls Engineering Youth Experience (Bulls - EYE) program, we support underrepresented USF under-graduates to mentor middle school youth from the Tampa Bay community (participation)
FGLSAMP: With Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) program, we have been recruiting underrepresented undergraduate students at USF
EECS at OSU Research in Undergraduate Activities: We supported undergraduate research at junior-level via an internal grant
