Ph.D. Research & Industry Internship, Morgan State University & Two Six Technologies
“Black Hat was very cool—I was able to meet cybersecurity professionals and start building my professional network.”
Alex Stoyanov-Roberts, like fellow computer science major Shameer Rao '24, is working on his Ph.D. at Morgan State University. Stoyanov-Roberts is focused on integrated circuit design: think of computer CPUs, mobile phones, modern cars, all of which are designed with integrated circuits controlling different aspects of the technology.
While a doctoral student, Stoyanov-Roberts interns at Two Six Technologies, where he designs and integrates components for a complex hardware system designed for hardware isolated key storage and distribution.
Stoyanov-Roberts attended the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco as part of his doctoral program. “We got to see firsthand the most cutting-edge hardware in the world!” he recalls. Just months after graduating from SMCM, Stoyanov-Roberts (with Rao) attended Black Hat USA 2024 in Las Vegas, a convention for cybersecurity enthusiasts. “Black Hat was very cool,” he recalls. “I was able to meet cybersecurity professionals and start building my professional network.”
He and his colleagues have submitted paper proposals for several conferences. He’d like to present on what he describes as a ”relatively novel RISCV hardware-based cryptographic algorithm.”