I am a professor in
the CSE department
at UC Riverside. My research is
in computer systems, with broad interest including computer
architecture support for security, and graph processing. I also think
about security and privacy of emerging systems including most recently
AR/VR, Large Language Models, and autonomous systems. Some of my
earlier work was in networking and distributed systems, and parallel
computing.
Email:
Office: WCH 441
Phone: (951) 827-2347
News
May 2025 Our paper "𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿-𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀" accepted to ICML (spotlight paper: 𝟮.𝟲% of 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀)! Congratualtions, Saketh and Erfan!
March 2025 New ISCA paper extending memory safety to speculative execution. Congratualtions, Saber!
March 2025 Syncfs paper, showing side channels in OS file system, accepted to Oakland'25; congrats Cheng and Yicheng!
March 2025 Nurlan's paper on GPU-driven virtual memory management accepted to ICS -- congratulations!
Jan. 2025 Branchscope, the first side channel attack on directional branch predictors, recognized with a Top Pick award in Architecture Security!
Jan. 2025 Ravan and Yicheng's paper on exploiting GPU memories to appear in Usenix Security 2025!
Jan. 2025 Kerem's paper on secure caches for compartmentalized software to appear in Usenix Security 2025! (Collaboration with Dmitry and David)
Oct. 2024 Nurlan and Ravan win first and second place at the ACM SRC competition at PACT 2024