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 and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Delaware
Hardware security, from design to verification.
My PhD research in Electrical and Computer Engineering focuses on hardware security, advised by Prof. Satwik Patnaik. 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
Joined the Department of ECE at the University of Delaware as a Graduate Research Assistant on October 1, 2026, advised by Prof. Satwik Patnaik.
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.