Furkan Turan
Co-founder & Hardware Designer @ Belfort
PhD Electrical Engineer
I am an experienced engineer specialized in FPGA-accelerated computing, with hands-on expertise across a range of platforms from SoCs to datacenters. My work focuses on developing secure applications, implementing cryptographic algorithms in hardware, and leveraging trusted computing solutions.
Work Experience
Hardware Designer @ Belfort / 2025 -
Hardware Acceleration for FHE
Researcher @ COSIC - KU Leuven / 2017 - 2024
FPGA-Accelerated Homomorphic Computation in Cloud
- Explored design-space for massively parallel hardware computation
- High-performance HW/SW interfaces for low-latency ciphertext transfers
Security Analysis of FPGA-Accelerated Computing
- Platforms: Intel Xeon+FPGA, Amazon EC2 F1, Xilinx Zynq SoC/MPSoC
- Interconnects, kernel drivers, and IP protection schemes
INVASIC Project
- Mutual trust establishment in invasive computing nodes
Internship @ Intel Labs / 2020
Security of Intel FPGAs
- Scalable Runtime Validation for On-Device Design Rule Checks (Patent US11556677B2)
- Multi-tenant FPGA usage in mistrusting server-client setups
Embedded Systems Engineer @ Elmaksan / 2014
Industrial System Designs
- Ethernet-based data logger for walk-through metal detectors
- Achieved 50% cost reduction by integrating DC motor driver and PLC comms
Education
PhD @ COSIC - KU Leuven / 2017 - 2022
- FPGA Accelerators for Cryptography and Their Protection in the Cloud
- Finalist prize winner at ZPRIZE competition
- Twice finalist at AMD/Xilinx Open Hardware Competition
- Best Teaching Assistant Award by VTK Student Association
Master's @ ESAT - KU Leuven / 2014 - 2016
- HW Acceleration of a Software-based VPN
- Achieved Best Masters' Thesis Award
Bachelor @ METU / 2008 - 2013
- Computer Architectures Track