Welcome to my Research Page
I have been interested in engineering solutions for as long as I can remember. This page contains a selection of my favorite research interests. I have developed lightweight encryption algorithms to secure drone communications, leveraged integrated circuits to implement parallel processing with fully shared memory at clock speed, and most recently, began investigating next-generation techniques for compilation in the secure multi-party computation paradigm.
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Graduate Research – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2024 – Present)
- Research with Professor Ana Milanova
- Compilation optimization for Multi-Party Computation
- Topic of my Master’s Thesis
- Objective to extend research from COMBINE CCS 2023 publication
- GitHub Repository
Image Credit: COMBINE CCS 20231
Senior Research – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (2019 – 2020)
- Year-long individual senior research project
- Increasing Parallel Processing Efficiency by Improving Shared Memory Access Speed
- Design a system using two MC6802 microprocessors in parallel with low access delay to the fully shared memory
- Combine techniques of multithreading and multiprocessing to create shared memory with the same memory access delay as the system RAM
- Test algorithm: Sieve of Eratosthenes
Research Internship – George Mason University (2019 – 2020)
- Micro Drone Research Internship with Professor Kai Zeng
- Team of six
- Implement lightweight encryption (AES, Blowfish, Present, TEA) on Crazyflie2.0
- Test functionality (battery life, message delivery speed) of drone with encryption methods
- Configure LPS (loco-positioning system, Bitcraze) nodes to locate drone
- Configure ROS (Robot Operating System, USC) open-source platform to stabilize swarm flight
Research Internship – George Mason University (2018 – 2019)
- Drone Security Individual Research Internship with Professor Kai Zeng
- Implementing lightweight drone control system using custom Blockchain for controlling swarms
- Integrating CS and cybersecurity discipline with practical application in the real world
1Benjamin Levy, Muhammad Ishaq, Benjamin Sherman, Lindsey Kennard, Ana Milanova, and Vassilis Zikas. 2023. COMBINE: COMpilation and Backend-INdependent vEctorization for Multi-Party Computation. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’23), November 26–30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576915.3623181