Mostafa Taha

PhD Student
Secure Embedded Systems (SES)
Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA)
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phone: (540) 394 1384
Email:  mtaha@vt.edu

a PDF version of my C.V. can be downloaded from here

News:

• I have passed the Preliminary Examination, April 9, 2013.
• Our paper "Side-Channel Analysis of MAC-Keccak" has been accepted in HOST-2013.
• Attend presentation by the Keccak Team at NIST, Feb 6, 2013.

Education:

1. Master of Science (2005-2008) in Electrical Engineering, Assiut University.
   Thesis entitled “Broadcasting protocols in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks” (thesis - defense).
2. Bachelor of Science (1999 - 2004) in Electrical Engineering, Assiut University.
   B.Sc. Project entitled “Identification of fingerprint using Wavelet Transform” (project paper part 1, 2).

Research Interests

• Side-Channel Analysis
• Physical Security

Publications

[1] Mostafa Taha, Patrick Schaumont "Side-Channel Analysis of MAC-Keccak," IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2013), June 2013.

[2] Mostafa Taha, Patrick Schaumont "A Novel Profiled Side-Channel Attack in Presence of High Algorithmic Noise," IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2012), September 2012.

[3] Suvarna Mane, Mostafa Taha, Patrick Schaumont, "Efficient and Side-Channel-Secure Block Cipher Implementation with Custom Instructions on FPGA," International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2012), August 2012

[4] Mostafa M. I. Taha, Yassin M. Y. Hasan "A Novel Headway-Based Vehicle-to-Vehicle Multi-Mode Broadcasting Protocol," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2008), Calgary, Canada, pp. 1-5, Septemper 2008. (PDF)

[5] Mostafa M. I. Taha, Yassin M. Y. Hasan, "VANET-DSRC Protocol for Reliable Broadcasting of Life Safety Messages," IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT-07), December 2007. (PDF, Talk)

 

[1] Mostafa Taha "The Birth of a New Hashing Standard: SHA-3," CESCA Newsletter, February 2013

[2] Mostafa Taha, Patrick Schaumont "High Dimensional Leakage Modeling of Combinational Logic Circuits," Annual Workshop of Virginia Tech's Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA), April 2012

Academic Reviewer For:

- IEEE embedded systems letters
- IET Circuits, Devices & Systems
- HOST 2013
- COSADE 2012
- DATE 2012
- FPL 2012
- ISCAS 2012