Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

• April 17: Khaled's ensemble hardware malware detectors paper received a research highlight from nature electronics. Unfortunately, its behind a paywall; contact me if you would like a copy.
• March 18: Branchscope is in the news! This new attack on the branch predictor may enable new spectre attack variants. The paper appears in ASPLOS this week.
• Jan. 2018: Our research contributes to Meltdown/Specter attacks: our branch predictor attack research one of the important pieces used by Google Project zero to enable the recent dangerous and widely publicized Meltdown/Specter attacks! This work was done by Dmitry Evtyushkin (now at College of William & Mary) as part of his PhD (co-advised with Dmitry Ponomarev)
• July 2017: Israat joins Dalhousie University as a tenure track Assistant Professor!
• June 2017: Mehmet joins University of New Hampshire (ECE Department) as a tenure track Assistant Professor!
• June 2017: Dmitry joins William and Mary (CS Department) as a tenure track Assistant Professor!

Architecture support for security:

• BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor, Asplos 2018
• RHMD: Evasion-Resilient Hardware Malware Detectors, Micro 2017 (slides)
• Constructing and Characterizing Covert Channels on GPGPUs, Micro 2017 (slides)
• Hardening Extended Memory Access Control Schemes with Self-Verified Address Spaces, ICCAD 2017
• RIC: Relaxed Inclusion Caches for Mitigating LLC Side-Channel Attacks, DAC'17 (slides)
• Jump over ASLR: Attacking Branch Predictors to Bypass ASLR, Micro 2016
• Flexible Hardware Managed Isolated Execution, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• A High-Resolution Side-channel attack on the Last Level Cache, DAC'16 (best paper nominee); (slides)

Networking and Distributed systems

• CTCV: Coordinated Transport of Correlated Videos in Smart Camera Networks, ICNP 2016 (best paper award)
• Wireless Software Defined Networks: A Survey and Taxonomy IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 2016
• Efficient and Consistent Path loss Model for Mobile Network Simulation IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (extends Infocom 2013)
• Interaction Engineering: Optimizing CSMA Handshakes in Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Parallel Computing and Parallel Simulation:

• PDES-A: A Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Acclerator for FPGAs, ACM SIGSIM PADS 2017 (best paper nominee)
• Performance Characterization of Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Knights Landing Processor, ACM SIGSIM PADS 2017
• AIR: Application-level Interference Resilience for PDES on Multi-core Systems ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

• Khaled Khasawneh, PhD student
• Hoda Naghibi, PhD student
• Hodjat Asghari-Esfeden, PhD student
• Shafiur Rahman, PhD student
• Ahmed Abdo, PhD student
• Sankha Dutta, PhD student (co-advised with C. Song)
• Esmaeil "Reza" Koruyeh, PhD student
• Shirin Shirazi, PhD student
• Sakib Md Bin Malek, PhD student
• Fatemah Alharbi, PhD student

• Dmitry Evtyushkin, 2017, Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
• Jesse Elwell, 2016, Vencore Labs (formerly Bell Labs/Telecordia; co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
• Ketan Bahulkar, 2016, Assistant Professor, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
• Mehmet Kayaalp, 2015, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
• Meltem Ozsoy, 2015, Intel Security and Privacy Lab. (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
• Jingjing Wang, 2014, Hulu (co-advised with D. Ponomarev)
• Adnan Majeed, 2014, Facebook
• Vikram Munishwar, 2013, Cisco
• Seon Yeong Han, 2010, Research Assistant Prof., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Saquib Razak, 2009, Teaching Associate Prof., Carnegie Mellon University
• Weishuai Yang, 2008, Bloomberg
• Vinay Kolar, 2007, IBM Research
• Ke Liu, 2007, Barclay's Bank
• Sameer Tilak, 2006, Research Scientist, University of California at San Diego
• Paul Rogers, 2006, IBM

• 2018: ACM SIGSIM-PADS, HOST, SIMULTECH
• 2017: ACM SIGSIM-PADS, HOST, SIMULTECH
• 2016: Micro (ERC),ISCA (ERC), SIMULTECH