* Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2020.
* Best Paper Nominee, 26th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-26), 2020.
* Graduated 2nd in Industrial Engineering and in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
* Recipient of the The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Graduate Scholarship.
* Ranked 256th out of over 1.8 million participants in the nationwide university entrance examination.
* Received the Koc University Graduate Scholarship for Master's studies.
* Awarded a Full Undergraduate Scholarship from Koc University for academic excellence.
1) Method and System to Identify Fabricated Electrical Circuits with Hidden Hardware Modifications
Alenka Zajic, Milos Prvulovic, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, and Ngoc Luong Nguyen, US Patent App. 18/027,517.
1) PI. "Electromagnetic Side Channel Monitoring Study for Requisition 235390", Fluor Marine Propulsion Corporation, 142907, (6/2021 - 10/2021)
2) co-PI. "EMSCALe: Component Decomposition by Leveraging Electromagnetic Side-channels", DARPA, W912CG-23-C-0015, (3/2023 - 9/2024)
3) PI. "ArEMGuard: Mobile Infrastructure Authentication in Expeditionary Regions via Unintended Electromagnetic Emission Monitoring", DARPA, N66001-23-C-4035, (3/2023 - 3/2025)
4) PI. "EMAth: ECU Authentication via Electromagnetic Side Channels", DARPA, 140D04-24-C-0026, (1/2024 - 1/2026)
5) co-PI. "EMSentry - Making Mobile Infrastructure Secure in Expeditionary Regions: An Air-gapped Monitoring Approach Leveraging EM Side-Channels", DARPA, HR0011-24-9-0505, (8/2024 - 2/2026)
6) co-PI. "MEDAGuard: Medical Device Functionality Shielding against Adverse Effects of Authorized Updates by Leveraging EM Side-Channels", ARPA-H, Under Contracting Process
1) MarCNNet: A Markovian Convolutional Neural Network for Malware Detection and Monitoring Multi-Core Systems
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Frank T. Werner, Sunjae Y. Park, Elvan M. Ugurlu, Erik Jorgensen, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022.
2) A Generalized Approach to Estimation of Covert Channel Information Leakage Capacity
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Nader Sehatbakhsh, Moumita Dey, Chia-Lin Cheng, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, Elsevier Array 2022
3) Identification and Profiling System Events via Electromagnetic Side-Channel
Moumita Dey, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alenka Zajic, and Milos Prvulovic, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021.
4) PITEM: Permutations-based Instruction Tracking Via Electromagnetic Side-Channel Signal Analysis
Elvan M. Ugurlu, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021.
5) Leveraging EM Side-Channels for Recognizing Components on a Motherboard
Frank Werner, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Transactions on Elec- tromagnetic Compatibility, 2020.
6) Side-Channel Propagation Measurements and Modeling for Hardware Security in IoT Devices
Seun Sangodoyin, Frank Werner, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Trans- actions on Antennas and Propagation, 2020.
7) Communication Model and Capacity Limits of Covert Channels Created by Software Activities
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2019.
8) Electromagnetic Side-channel Information Leakage Created by Execution of Series of Instructions in a Computer Processor
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2019.
9) Compressed Training Based Massive MIMO
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alper T. Erdogan, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2019.
10) Capacity of the EM Covert/Side-Channel Created by the Execution of Instructions in a Processor
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Robert Callan, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2018.
11) Compressed Training Adaptive Equalization: Algorithms and Analysis
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alper T. Erdogan, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017.
1) Resilience Analysis of Electromagnetic Side-Channels Against Weight Perturbations
Baki Berkay Yilmaz and Angelos D. Keromytis, IEEE International Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2024
2) Heterogeneous IC Component Identification via EM Side-Channels
Donald Greene, Zahir Khan, Angelos D. Keromytis and Baki Berkay Yilmaz, IEEE International Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2024
3) Nonce@Once: A Single Trace EM Side Channel Attack on Several Constant-Time Elliptic Curve Implementations in Mobile Phones
Monjur Alam, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Frank Werner, Niels Samwel, Alenka Zajic, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom and Milos Prvulovic, IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroSP 2021)
4) Path loss Model and Parameters Determination for THz Chip-to-Chip Wireless Communications
Jinbang Fu, Prateek Juyal, Baki Berkay Yilmaz and Alenka Zajic, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APS 2020)
5) A Novel Golden-Chip-Free Clustering Technique Using Backscattering Side Channel for Hardware Trojan Detection
Ngoc Luong Nguyen, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alenka Zajic and Milos Prvulovic, International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2020)
6) Cell-Phone Classification: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach Exploiting Electromagnetic Emanations
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Elvan Mert Ugurlu, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020
7) Program Profiling based on Markov Models and EM Emanations
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Elvan Mert Ugurlu, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, SPIE Cyber Sensing, 2020
8) Creating a Backscattering Side Channel to Enable Detection of Counterfeits
Ngoc Luong Nguyen, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Chia-Lin Cheng, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, SPIE Cyber Sensing, 2020
9) Investigation of Resonance Based Propagation Loss Modeling for THz Chip-to-Chip Wireless Communications
Jinbang Fu, Prateek Juyal, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020
10) Remote Monitoring and Propagation Modeling ofEM Side-Channel Signals for IoT Device Security
Seun Sangodoyin, Frank Werner, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Chia-Lin Cheng, Elvan Mert Ugurlu, Nader Sehatbakhsh and Alenka Zajic, IEEE European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020.
11) EMSim: a Microarchitecture-Level Simulation Tool for Modeling Electromagnetic Side-Channel Signals
Nader Sehatbakhsh, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alenka Zajic, and Milos Prvulovic, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2020
12) A New Side-Channel Vulnerability on Modern Computers by Exploiting Electromagnetic Emanations from the Power Management Unit
Nader Sehatbakhsh, Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alenka Zajic, and Milos Prvulovic, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2020
13) Detecting Cellphone Camera Status at Distance by Exploiting Electromagnetic Emanations
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Elvan Mert Ugurlu, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE International Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2019
14) Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO: A Semi-blind Algorithm Exploiting QAM Structure
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alper T. Erdogan, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2019
15) Capacity of EM Side Channel Created by Instruction Executions in a Processor
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), 2019
16) Instruction Level Program Tracking Using Electromagnetic Emanations
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Elvan Mert Ugurlu, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, SPIE Cyber Sensing, 2019
17) Capacity of Deliberate Side-Channels Created by Software Activities
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE International Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2018
18) Wireless Communication Channel Created by Processor Memory Activity
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018
19) Single Carrier Frequency Domain Compressed Training Adaptive Equalization
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alper T. Erdogan, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2017
20) Quantifying Information Leakage in a Processor Caused by the Execution of Instructions
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Robert Callan, Milos Prvulovic, and Alenka Zajic, IEEE International Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2017
21) Compressed Training Adaptive MIMO Equalization
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alper T. Erdogan, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2016
22) Compressed Training Adaptive Equalization
Baki Berkay Yilmaz, Alper T. Erdogan, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2016