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Cliford Fanyuy

Academic Fellow · WG-1 IEEE Co-Author

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO, USA)

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FELLOWSHIP TIER
Academic Fellow (WG-1)
AFFILIATION
Univ. of Missouri (Mizzou)
MAJOR WORK
IEEE ZTDS Manuscript
RESEARCH FOCUS
Hardware Attestation & TEE

Academic Profile & Research Contributions

Cliford Fanyuy is a computer science and security researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO, USA). His research centers on trusted execution environments (TEEs), hardware-attested security architectures, and privacy-preserving distributed systems.

As an Academic Fellow for the ZTDS AI Consortium, he co-authored the foundational IEEE research manuscript on Zero-Trust Data Sanitization. He co-designed the hardware-attested confidential computing protocol, enabling mathematical zero-trust guarantees through cryptographically signed platform configuration registers (PCR0–PCR2) and attestation-bound session verifications.

Key Architectural Milestones & Contributions

  • Hardware-Attested Confidential Execution: Co-architected the AWS Nitro Enclaves integration validating signed PCR measurements and challenge nonces over isolated virtio-vsock channels with zero WAN egress.
  • Formal Security Foundations (P1–P6): Co-formulated the formal security propositions governing detected-entity non-egress, session-mapping non-egress, token injectivity, zero disk persistence, and context-bound enclave authorization.
  • Attestation-Bound Session Protocol: Formulating the two-stage protocol sequence and adversarial threat model for the IEEE TDSC Special Issue submission.
  • State-of-the-Art (SoTA) Benchmarking: Establishing rigorous comparative evaluation matrices against legacy cloud-proxy DLP appliances, demonstrating 1.71× throughput advantage over centralized firewalls.

Authored Manuscripts & Research Publications

  • Zero-Trust Data Sanitization for Enterprise AI: Client-Side Tokenization with Hardware-Attested Confidential Execution
    Co-authored by Ilya Sibiryakov & Cliford Fanyuy · IEEE Manuscript · TIFS & TDSC Target
  • Attestation-Bound Session Mechanisms for Confidential LLM Prompt Sanitization
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) Special Issue · In Preparation
  • TechRxiv Research Preprint V1: Attestation Protocol Sequence & Attack Model
    IEEE TechRxiv Open Research Archive · October 2026 Release Track
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Joint research collaboration spanning in-RAM V8 sanitization engines and AWS Nitro Enclave attestation for frontier enterprise foundation models.

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