Mar. 2019 : New IEEE Spectrum article explaining Spectre and Meltdown
Jan. 2019 : Two papers accepted to DAC'19. Congrats, Khaled and Daimeng.
Nov. 2018 : Fatemah's paper on client-side DNS poisoning to appear in Infocom'19 (Fix/credit from Apple )
Nov. 2018 : Hodjat's CORF paper to appear in ASPLOS'19.
Nov. 2018 : New side channel attacks on the graphics buffer to appear in NDSS'19. Congratulatiuons, Daimeng!
Nov. 2018 : Jump-over-ASLR (Micro'16) paper selected for
presentation at Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security Workshop
(at ICCAD'2018).
Nov. 2018 : Nael presents an invited panel talk at ICCAD in San DiegoOct. 2018 : Nael gives a keynote talk at the SecArch workshop held with CCS.
Aug. 2018 : Hoda's paper on GPU side channels accepted to CCS! (UCR news release) , CVE-2018-6260
July 2018 : Spectre Returns (SpectreRSB) attack is in the news! This is a new variant of Spectre that we developed (awarded best paper WOOT 18). Congratulations Reza and Khaled! (CVE-2018-15572 )
June 2018 : SafeSpec in the news! SafeSpec is a design principle to defend against speculation attacks.
June 2018 : Shirin and Fatemah receive scholarships to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration conference!
May 2018 : Honored to receive the best Prof. award for 17/18 from the UCR ACM chapter. Thanks, guys (and gals)!
April 2018 : 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 2018 : Branchscope
is in the news! , CVE-2018-9056
Teaching
CORF: Coalescing Operand Register File for GPUs , ASPLOS 2019
Unveiling your keystrokes: A Cache-based
Side-channel Attack on Graphics Libraries , NDSS 2019
Collaborative Client-Side DNS Cache
Poisoning Attack , Infocom 2019
Rendered Insecure! GPU side channel attacks are practical , CCS 2018, (slides )
In-Register Parameter Caching for Dynamic Neural Nets with Virtual Persistent Processor Specialization , Micro 2018
Spectre Returns! WOOT 2018 (best paper award)
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 )
Current Lab members-- I work with the following talented group
Khaled Khasawneh , PhD studentHoda Naghibijouybari , PhD studentHodjat Asghari-Esfeden , PhD studentShafiur Rahman, PhD student
Ahmed Abdo, PhD student
Sankha Dutta, PhD student (co-advised with C. Song)
Esmaeil "Reza" Mohammadian Koruyeh, PhD student
Shirin Haji Amin Shirazi, PhD student
Sakib Md Bin Malek, PhD student
Fatemah Alharbi , PhD student
Past PhD. Students
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
Recent Professional Service
