Hardware security
The focus of my PhD: understanding and improving the security of hardware systems.
Explore this area →Hardware security · PhD research
Nazmul Haque Turja
PhD student at the University of Delaware
Hardware security, from design to verification.
My PhD research in Electrical and Computer Engineering focuses on hardware security. I bring experience in GPU logic design and pre-silicon verification at Intel, alongside prior research in computer architecture and performance modeling.
Research areas
Research overview →Hardware design & verification
Exploring LLMs and AI agents for hardware design and verification.
Explore this area →Architecture & performance
Prior work in GPU performance prediction and CPU bottleneck analysis informs my hardware research.
Explore this area →Selected publications
All publications →2023
Utilizing CPI Breakdown for Bottleneck Analysis of Power9 Processor Performance
Master’s project report, New Mexico State University · 2023
An LDMS-Sampler framework for analyzing CPI breakdowns and locating performance bottlenecks in IBM Power9.
2023
BB-ML: Basic Block Performance Prediction using Machine Learning Techniques
29th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) · 2023
Predicting GPU basic block execution counts for larger workloads from smaller input configurations.
Recent updates
Upcoming: joining the ECE Department at the University of Delaware as a Graduate Research Assistant on October 1, 2026.
Working on hardware design and verification using LLMs and AI agents. Project status →
Started my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, focusing on hardware security.
Joined Intel as a GPU Logic Design Engineer in Folsom, California.