News
August 2025 Paper showing attention manipulation to Jailbreak LLMs accepted to EMNLP'25 -- congratulations, Pedram, Mamun and Mishkat!
July 2025 New grant supporting research in ML security and privacy (collaboration with Ihsen and Alessio) -- thanks, NSF!
June 2025 New grant supporting research in Evolving Graph Processing (with Rajiv Gupta) -- thanks, NSF!
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 . Congratulations, 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 ...more news
Teaching
CommonGraph: Graph Analytics on Evolving Data , Asplos 2023
JetStream: Graph Analytics on Streaming Data with Event-Driven Hardware Accelerators , Micro 2021
Leaky Buddies: Cross-Component Covert Channels on Integrated CPU-GPU Systems , ISCA 2021 (Slides )
Defensive Approximation: Securing CNNs using Approximate Computing , ASPLOS 2021
BOW: Breathing Operand Windows to Exploit Bypassing in GPUs , Micro 2020
GraphPulse: An Event-driven Hardware Accelerator for Asynchronous Graph Processing , Micro 2020
SPECCFI: Mitigating Spectre Attacks using CFI informed Speculation , IEEE S&P 2020
LATCH: Locality Aware Taint CHecker , Micro 2019
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 ); Top pick in hardware security (ICCAD'19)
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
Jump over ASLR: Attacking Branch Predictors to Bypass ASLR , Micro 2016 (top picks in hardware security, ICCAD'2018)
Current Lab members-- I work with the following talented group
Past PhD. Students/Postdocs
Quazi Mishkatul Alam, 2025, Amazon
Mahbod Afarin , 2025, postdoctoral scholar, UCSD (co-advised with Rajiv Gupta )
Abdulrahman Bin Rabiah, 2023, King Saud University (co-advised
with Silas Richelson )
Ahmed Abdo, 2022, Advanced Physics Lab., John's Hopkins University
Esmaeil "Reza" Mohammadian Koruyeh , 2022, Samsung Research
Sankha Dutta , 2022, post-doc, PNNL
Shafiur Rahman , 2021, Facebook (co-advised with Rajiv Gupta )Hodjat Asghari Esfeden , 2021, GoogleHoda Naghibijouybari , 2020, Assistant Professor, Binghamton University (CS) Fatemah Alharbi , 2020, Assistant Professor, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Khaled Khasawneh , 2019, Assistant Professor, George Mason University (ECE)Israat Tanzeena Haque , 2016-2018 (post-doc), Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University (CS)
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
