2026 Berk Sunar: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	53	4848	4713	2260	2181	175	10713

Overview

Berk Sunar is affiliated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their academic contributions are concentrated in the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on several specialized subfields.

The main subfields of their research include:

Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

In terms of specific research topics, Berk Sunar's work addresses the following areas:

Security and Verification in Computing
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Cryptography and Data Security
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Coding theory and cryptography
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

Their frequent publication venues demonstrate a range of outlets for their work. Key venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Journal of Mathematical Cryptology
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Lirias (KU Leuven)

Berk Sunar has collaborated multiple times with various researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

M. Caner Tol
Zane Weissman
Thore Tiemann
Thomas Eisenbarth
Andrew Adiletta

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

JackHammer: Efficient Rowhammer on Heterogeneous FPGA-CPU Platforms, 2020, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Flattening NTRU for Evaluation Key Free Homomorphic Encryption, 2020, Journal of Mathematical Cryptology
JackHammer: Efficient Rowhammer on Heterogeneous FPGA-CPU Platforms, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
CopyCat: Controlled Instruction-Level Attacks on Enclaves, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
Homomorphic Sorting With Better Scalability, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Best Publications

Trojan Detection using IC Fingerprinting

D. Agrawal;S. Baktir;D. Karakoyunlu;P. Rohatgi

1074
Citations
A Provably Secure True Random Number Generator with Built-In Tolerance to Active Attacks

B. Sunar;W.J. Martin;D.R. Stinson

681
Citations
Public key cryptography in sensor networks—revisited

Gunnar Gaubatz;Jens-Peter Kaps;Berk Sunar

489
Citations
S$A: A Shared Cache Attack That Works across Cores and Defies VM Sandboxing -- and Its Application to AES

Gorka Irazoqui;Thomas Eisenbarth;Berk Sunar

408
Citations
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2005

Josyula R. Rao;Berk. Sunar

393
Citations
State of the art in ultra-low power public key cryptography for wireless sensor networks

G. Gaubatz;J.-P. Kaps;E. Ozturk;B. Sunar

344
Citations
Wait a Minute! A fast, Cross-VM Attack on AES

Gorka Irazoqui;Mehmet Sinan Inci;Thomas Eisenbarth;Berk Sunar

333
Citations
Low-complexity bit-parallel canonical and normal basis multipliers for a class of finite fields

C.K. Koc;B. Sunar

331
Citations
Memory Leakage-Resilient Encryption Based on Physically Unclonable Functions

Frederik Armknecht;Roel Maes;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Berk Sunar

273
Citations
Mastrovito multiplier for all trinomials

B. Sunar;C.K. Koc

272
Citations
An efficient optimal normal basis type II multiplier

B. Sunar;C.K. Koc

247
Citations
Fallout: Leaking Data on Meltdown-resistant CPUs

Claudio Canella;Daniel Genkin;Lukas Giner;Daniel Gruss

230
Citations
LVI: Hijacking Transient Execution through Microarchitectural Load Value Injection

Jo Van Bulck;Daniel Moghimi;Michael Schwarz;Moritz Lippi

227
Citations
Cache Attacks Enable Bulk Key Recovery on the Cloud

Mehmet Sinan İnci;Berk Gulmezoglu;Gorka Irazoqui;Thomas Eisenbarth

180
Citations
cuHE: A Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator Library.

Wei Dai;Berk Sunar

164
Citations
Accelerating fully homomorphic encryption using GPU

Wei Wang;Yin Hu;Lianmu Chen;Xinming Huang

161
Citations
Seriously, get off my cloud! Cross-VM RSA Key Recovery in a Public Cloud.

Mehmet Sinan Inci;Berk Gülmezoglu;Gorka Irazoqui Apecechea;Thomas Eisenbarth

153
Citations
Exploring the Feasibility of Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Wei Wang;Yin Hu;Lianmu Chen;Xinming Huang

151
Citations
Towards Robust Low Cost Authentication for Pervasive Devices

E. Oztiirk;G. Hammouri;B. Sunar

149
Citations
Energy comparison of AES and SHA-1 for ubiquitous computing

Jens-Peter Kaps;Berk Sunar

140
Citations
Robot Operating System 2: The need for a holistic security approach to robotic architectures

Vincenzo DiLuoffo;William R Michalson;Berk Sunar

103
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Eisenbarth University of Lübeck

Erkay Savas Sabancı University

Çetin Kaya Koç University of California, Santa Barbara

Frank Piessens KU Leuven

Mark G. Karpovsky Boston University

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt

Michael Schwarz Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Daniel Genkin Georgia Institute of Technology

Yuval Yarom Ruhr University Bochum

Claude Carlet Paris 8 University

External Links

Personal website of Berk Sunar Google Scholar page

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