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
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.
Oct. 2018 : VPPS paper presented at Micro'18
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 )
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
Past PhD. Students
Khaled Khasawneh , 2019, Assistant Professor, George Mason UniversityDmitry 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
