Biography
I am currently working as postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, United States. I got my Phd degree at Nangyang Technological University, Singapore (2008-2013) and my bachelor degree at Moscow State University, Russia (2003-2008). I have 2 years postdoc experience at the India Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
Research Interests
- Large Scale Optimization in Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- Differentially Private Machine Learning
- Cryptanalysis
- Side Channel Analysis
- Physically Unclonable Functions
Publications
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Lam M. Nguyen, Marten van Dijk: Tight Dimension Independent Lower Bound on Optimal Expected Convergence Rate for Diminishing Step Sizes in SGD. NeurIPS 2019.
- Lam M. Nguyen, Phuong Ha Nguyen*, Peter Richtárik, Katya Scheinberg, Martin Takác, Marten van Dijk: New Convergence Aspects of Stochastic Gradient Algorithms. JMLR 2019. * Equal contribution.
- Marten van Dijk, Lam M. Nguyen, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Dzung T. Phan: Characterization of Convex Objective Functions and Optimal Expected Convergence Rates for SGD. International Conference on Machine Learning ICML 2019.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Durga Prasad Sahoo, Chenglu Jin, Kaleel Mahmood, Ulrich Rührmair, Marten van Dijk: The Interpose PUF: Secure PUF Design against State-of-the-art Machine Learning Attacks. CHES 2019.
- Raihan Sayeed Khan, Nafisa Noor, Chenglu Jin, Sadid Muneer, Faruk Dirisaglik, Adam Cywar, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Marten van Dijk, Ali Gokirmak, Helena Silva: Exploiting Lithography Limits for Hardware Security Applications. IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO) 2019.
- Lam M. Nguyen, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Marten van Dijk, Peter Richtárik, Katya Scheinberg, Martin Takác: SGD and Hogwild! Convergence Without the Bounded Gradients Assumption. International Conference on Machine Learning ICML 2018.
- Durga Prasad Sahoo, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Phuong Ha Nguyen: A Multiplexer based Arbiter PUF Composition with Enhanced Reliability and Security. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) 2018.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Durga Prasad Sahoo, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay: Security Analysis of Arbiter PUF and Its Lightweight Compositions Under Predictability Test. IEEE Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODES) 2017.
- Durga Prasad Sahoo, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Debapriya Basu Roy, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty: Side Channel Evaluation of PUF-Based Pseudorandom Permutation. DSD 2017.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Durga Prasad Sahoo, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay: Efficient Attacks on Robust Ring Oscillator PUF with Enhanced Challenge-Response Set. DATE 2015.
- Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Durga Prasad Sahoo: Physcially Unclonable Functions: A Promising Security Primitive for Internet of Things (Long tutorial). VLSID 2015.
- Sikhar Patranabis, Abhishek Chakraborty, Phuong Ha Nguyen and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay: Physcially Unclonable Functions: A Biased Fault Attack on the Time Redundancy Countermeasure for AES. COSADE 2015.
- Durga Prasad Sahoo, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Rajat Subhra Chakraborty: A Case of Lightweight PUF Constructions: Cryptanalysis and Machine Learning Attacks. Accepted in IEEE TCAD 2015.
- Sebastian Kutzner, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Axel Poschmann, Marc Stottinger: Minimizing S-Boxes in Hardware by Utilizing Linear Transformations. AFRICACRYPT 2014.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Durga Prasad Sahoo, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty: Cryptanalysis of Composite PUFs (Invited Talk). VDAT 2014.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Durga Prasad Sahoo: Lightweight and Secure PUFs: A Survey (Invited Paper). SPACE 2014.
- Sebastian Thomas Kutzner, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Axel Poschmann and Huaxiong Wang: On 3-share Threshold Implementations for 4-bit S-boxes . COSADE2013.
- Sebastian Thomas Kutzner, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Axel Poschmann: Enabling 3-share Threshold Implementations to any 4-bit S-boxes . ICISC2013.
- Chester Rebeiro, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Axel Poschmann: Formalizing the Effect of Feistel Cipher Structures on Differential Cache Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security journal 2013.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay and Huaxiong Wang: Improved Differential Cache-Trace Attacks on SMS4. INSCRYPT2012.
- Hongjun Wu, Tao Huang, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Huaxiong Wang, and San Ling: Differential Attacks against Stream Cipher ZUC. ASIACRYPT2012.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Hongjun Wu, Huaxiong Wang: Improving the Algorithm 2 in Multidimensional Linear Cryptanalysis. ACISP 2011.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Matthew J. B. Robshaw, Huaxiong Wang: On Related-Key Attacks and KASUMI: The Case of A5/3. INDOCRYPT 2011.
- Phuong Ha Nguyen, Lei Wei, Huaxiong Wang, San Ling: On Multidimensional Linear Cryptanalysis. ACISP 2010.
Book Chapter
- Raihan Sayeed Khan, Nafisa Noor, Chenglu Jin, Jake Scoggin, Zachary Woods, Sadid Muneer, Aaron Ciardullo, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Ali Gokirmak, Marten van Dijk, and Helena Silva. Chapter 6: Phase Change Memory and its Applications in Hardware Security in book Security Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies, Publisher: CRC Press, pp.93-114, 2017.
Unpublished Works or Works In Submission
- Lam M. Nguyen, Marten van Dijk, Dzung T. Phan, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Tsui-Wei Weng, Jayant R. Kalagnanam: Optimal Finite-Sum Smooth Non-Convex Optimization with SARAH. CoRR abs/1901.07648 (2019)
- Phuong Ha Nguyen and Durga Prasad Sahoo: An Efficient and Scalable Modeling Attack on Lightweight Secure Physically Unclonable Function. See http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/428.pdf
- Durga Prasad Sahoo, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Rajat Subhra Chakraborty and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay: Architectural Bias: a Novel Statistical Metric to Evaluate Arbiter PUF Variants. See http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/057.pdf
