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Rob Callan

Rob Callan

Principal DSP Architect with expertise in signal processing and cybersecurity

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Santa Clara, California, United States
Joined August 2025

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Summary

Rob Callan is a distinguished expert in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) architecture, currently holding a Principal DSP Architect role at Marvell Technology. His professional journey spans across various high-tech companies including Mythic, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Altera, and IBM, where he contributed to circuits modeling, SerDes architecture, and hardware engineering. rocketreach+2
His academic background is particularly strong in electrical engineering and computer security, stemming from his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research at Georgia Institute of Technology. He specialized in side-channel analysis, electromagnetics, and cybersecurity, as evidenced by his extensive publications on Google Scholar and his award-winning project on malware detection using electromagnetic emanations. google+2

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Systems and methods for measuring side-channel signals for instruction-level events

January 1, 2020

A US Patent related to measuring side-channel signals, co-invented with M. Prvulovic, N. Basta, and A. Zajic.

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IDEA: Intrusion detection through electromagnetic-signal analysis for critical embedded and cyber-physical systems

January 1, 2019

A publication focusing on intrusion detection using electromagnetic-signal analysis for embedded and cyber-physical systems, co-authored with H.A. Khan and others.

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{One&Done}: A {Single-Decryption}{EM-Based} Attack on {OpenSSLโ€™s}{Constant-Time} Blinded {RSA}

January 1, 2018

A publication describing an electromagnetic-based side-channel attack on OpenSSL's RSA implementation, co-authored with M. Alam and others.

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Analyzing software using unintentional electromagnetic emanations from computing devices

January 1, 2016

His Ph.D. dissertation from Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on the analysis of software through unintentional electromagnetic emanations.

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FASE: Finding amplitude-modulated side-channel emanations

January 1, 2015

A paper on finding amplitude-modulated side-channel emanations, co-authored with A. Zajiฤ‡ and M. Prvulovic.

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A practical methodology for measuring the side-channel signal available to the attacker for instruction-level events

January 1, 2014

A research paper detailing a methodology for measuring side-channel signals, co-authored with A. Zajic and M. Prvulovic, presented at the 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

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A 28-Gb/s 4-tap FFE/15-tap DFE serial link transceiver in 32-nm SOI CMOS technology

January 1, 2012

A publication related to high-speed serial link transceiver design, co-authored by J.F. Bulzacchelli and others, indicating early work in circuit design.

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