Anthony Etim

PhD Candidate

Yale University

Biography

Anthony Etim is a fifth year Ph.D. student at Computer Architecture and Security Lab, Yale University. His research interests lie in machine learning security and hardware security, as well as attacks and defenses in machine learning accelerators and algorithms to exploit vulnerabilities and leak sensitive information.

Interests

Machine Learning Security
Hardware Security
FPGA Security

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2027 (Expected)
Yale University
MSc, MPhil in Electrical Engineering, 2024
Yale University
BSc in Electrical Engineering, 2021
Villanova University

Experience

Gen AI Intern

Scale AI

June 2025 – Present New York, New York

Designed domain-specific and adversarial evaluations for frontier LLMs; performed failure-mode analyses and delivered recommendations adopted in model updates.

Oversaw end-to-end training and fine-tuning of a code-reasoning LLM; developed C++/Python solutions for top-3% Olympiad problems, applied LoRA/PEFT to enhance chain-of-thought, and benchmarked Olympiad-level reasoning to surface failure modes that informed architecture improvements.

Graduate Research Assistant & Teaching Fellow

Yale University

August 2021 – Present New Haven, Connecticut

Research Asistant:

Member of Computer Architecture and Security (CASLAB) Lab.

Teaching Asistant:

EENG 200–Introduction to Electronics (Jung Han)
EENG 201–Introduction to Computer Engineering (Jakub Szefer)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Villanova University

March 2018 – May 2021 Villanova, Pennsylvania

Recent Publications

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Ferhat Erata, TingHung Chiu, Anthony Etim, Srilalith Nampally, Tejas Raju, Rajashree Ramu, Ruzica Piskac, Timos Antonopoulos, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2024). Systematic Use of Random Self-Reducibility in Cryptographic Code against Physical Attacks. 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD).

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Anthony Etim, Shanquan Tian, Jakub Szefer (2024). Extending FPGA Information Leaks with Trojan Phantom Circuits. IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED).

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Theodoros Trochatos, Anthony Etim, Jakub Szefer (2023). Covert-channels in FPGA-enabled SmartSSDs. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS).

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