Jakub Szefer

I would like to share the second video lecture recording from my Secure Quantum Computing course. You can view the video at youtu.be/SaayBadVM2I and the full class playlist at youtube.com/watch?v=VXluyI… 😃

May 18, PsiQuantum workshop at Northwestern! 😁

You can catch one of my next talks at Hardwear.io , a platform for hardware and security community where researchers showcase and discuss their innovative research on attacking and defending hardware. 🔐 Hope to see you in California in May!

I'm excited that Northwestern and Chicago are expanding the quantum computing ecosystem here in mid-west! You can read more at: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/4…

This quarter I am teaching the Secure Quantum Computing course and I thought I can share the videos from the course lectures. 😁 You can find the YouTube playlist here: studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLWOU… 🤓

Sadly missing the New England Hardware Security Day (nehws.org ) today for the first time since it has been started. 😑 To all at NEHWS, hope you have amazing day! 😇

I want to thank Wenjie, Yanan, and Theodoros for leading the HASP workshop this year! And welcome to Shuwen and Tianwei to the Steering Committee of HASP after helping to organize the workshop for a number of years. Please submit your work to HASP 🔐 haspworkshop.org

Congratulations to Sanjay Deshpande on two works being accepted for presentation at CBCrypto, including our hardware implementation of MEDS (Matrix Equivalence Digital Signature Scheme). 🔐 🪪

I wanted to share a recent talk by Dr. Sanjay Deshpande who is leading efforts on hardware HQC design and security analysis! youtube.com/watch?v=loa6B7… 🔐 🤩

I'm teaching Secure Quantum Computing (CE 395/495) this quarter again! I plan to share videos and possibly materials from the class. 🔐 I hope to get more people aware of this critical area! Please follow for news and updates on the class and our research. 😁

Congratulations to Anthony Etim. Our upcoming HOST '26 work on "Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures on TinyML Algorithms" has been nominated for the best paper award. 😁 Please come support him in DC at HOST!

I'm looking forward to an exciting workshop coming to Northwestern this spring... 🤫 some more details will be shared this month.

Join this upcoming information session to learn more about the Open Quantum Initiative (OQI) Fellowship summer research experience, what to expect, application eligibility and requirements ⚛️ 💼 jotform.com/form/243105637…

Thanks to Prabhat Mishra for inviting us to contribute to an upcoming book on Design Automation for Quantum Computing! You can get it on Amazon soon: 😀 amazon.com/Design-Automat…

Happy new year 2026 to everybody! Please stay in touch and say hello if you are visiting Chicago area! 🎉 🎊 ❄️ Stay safe and all the best for the new semester or quarter.

I wanted to close off the year by sharing a short report on Research Directions in Quantum Computer Cybersecurity, you can find a copy on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2512.23607 🎉 ☃️ 🔒

Today is last day for PhD applications! 🗓️ You can review application information online: #a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mccormick.northwestern.edu/electrical-com…

Code Drop 📦 Our SPHINCS+ post-quantum cryptographic cryptosystem hardware design code is now available on GitHub: github.com/caslab-code/pq… 😄

What is Quantum Computer Security? 🔬 🔒 Our brief article for the SIGDA Newsletter is now also available on arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07334

Code Drop 📦 You can check out our prior Classic McElliece post-quantum cryptographic cryptosystem hardware design code which is now available on GitHub: github.com/caslab-code/pq… 😀