I am a professor in the CSE and ECE
departments at UC Riverside. My research is in computer systems and
specifically in computer architecture support for security, networking and distributed systems, and parallel computing.
Aug. 2018: Reza and Khaled's SpectreRSB paper receives best paper award at WOOT 2018
July 2018: Spectre Returns (SpectreRSB) attack is in the news! This is a new variant of Spectre that we developed (paper to appear in WOOT 18). Congratulations Reza and Khaled!
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! This new attack on the branch predictor may
enable new spectre attack variants. The paper appears in ASPLOS this
week.
