Aug. 2020 New planning grant from NSF Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (with Rajiv, Zhijia, Chengyu and Manu). Thanks, NSF!
July 2020 Hoda defended her PhD and will be joining Binghamton University as a tenure-track faculty (CS Department). Congratulations!
June 2020 New grant on energy elastic real-time friendly GPUs with Daniel and Hyoseung. Thanks, NSF!
May 2020 Fatemah successfully defended her PhD and will be returning to Taibah University as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Dr. Alharbi!
Feb. 2020 Leaders and innovators seminar at Texas A&M University
Nov. 2019 Hoda's CCS'18 paper selected for presentation at ICCAD's top picks in hardware and embedded security (identifying best papers in those areas in the past 6 years)
Oct. 2019 : Associate Editor for Transactions on Computers
August 2019 : SpecCFI accepted to S&P'20 (congratulations, Reza and Shirin!)
July 2019 : Latch accepted to Micro'19 (congratulations, Daniel and Khaled)
June 2019 : New papers at RAID'19 (congratulations, Ahmed and Sakib!) and ICS'19 (congratulations, Hoda!)
May 2019 : Khaled accepted a tenure track position at George Mason University (ECE). Congratulations!
Apr. 2019 : Distinguished Seminar at GMU
Apr. 2019 : Keynote talk at GPGPU held with ASPLOS
Apr. 2019 : Keynote talk at Dearborn Cybersecurity day
Teaching
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
RHMD: Evasion-Resilient Hardware Malware Detectors , Micro 2017 (slides )
Constructing and Characterizing Covert Channels on GPGPUs , Micro 2017 (slides )
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
Hodjat Asghari Esfeden Shafiur Rahman Ahmed Abdo
Sankha Dutta
Esmaeil "Reza" Mohammadian Koruyeh
Shirin Haji Amin Shirazi
Sakib Md Bin Malek
Abdulrahman Bin Rabiah
Jason Zellmer (co-advised with Chengyu Song)
Past PhD. Students/Postdocs
Hoda 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
Selected Recent Professional Service
20/21: Micro, HPCA, ISCA (ERC), ASPLOS (ERC), HASP, ICCD, SIGSIM-PADS
