People
PRIME Lab was established in August 2026. We are recruiting our first PhD student.
Tianyou Bao
Assistant Professor and Lab Director
Tianyou Bao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UAH and directs PRIME Lab. He designs hardware for post-quantum cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption, which allows computation on encrypted data. His research also covers information leakage from cryptographic hardware and the arithmetic circuits that support it. Applications include artificial intelligence (AI) that protects private data and wearable health monitoring.
He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Villanova University in 2026. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, with a minor in mathematics, from Wenzhou-Kean University.
He has published 24 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences such as IEEE TVLSI, IACR TCHES, ACM TRETS, and FCCM.
Students
- Open position
Fully funded PhD position
Fall 2027 (Spring 2027 possible). Applicants with a bachelor’s degree are welcome.
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