My name is Ben

I am an engineer. My background is in CPU design and hardware verification. I currently work as a Cryptographic Hardware Engineer at PQShield, where I help develop hardware and software for secure and efficient post-quantum cryptography. Before that, I worked as a researcher at the University of Bristol on the SCARV project, finding ways build CPUs that could execute cryptographic workloads securely, and defend them against power side-channel attacks. Before that, I worked at Imagination Technologies / MIPS building extremely energy efficient micro-controllers.

I'm quite internet-shy, but you can find me on Github, LinkedIn (if you must) and Twitter (extremely rarely). A list of my published papers is available on my Google Scholar profile.

Projects:

• I was the editor for the RISC-V Instruction Set Extension for Cryptography. I was also an elected member of the RISC-V Technical Steering Committee (TSC), representing individual and community members, until ~October 2022.
• Awesome Open Hardware Verification. A list of free and open source projects for hardware verification.
• Croyde. A 64-bit RISC-V Micro-controller CPU

Letters & Writing:

• Notes on Type 1 Diabetes
• To the Bristol Cable on Facial Recognition
• To the IET on Ethics in Engineering
• The Character of the Happy Worrier
• The Courier | Secret Life of Data