News
Feb. 2024 Ahmed's paper wins the "Zoox Autodriving Security Award" at VehicleSec -- congratulations!
Feb. 2024 New paper on shared state AR/VR attacks accepted to Usenix security'24 -- congratulations, Yicheng, Erfan and Pedram!
Jan. 2024 Multimodal Jailbreak paper accepted as a spotlight paper (5%) to ICLR--congratulations Erfan!
Nov. 2023 Erfan's multimodal LLM Jailbreak paper wins best paper award at SoCal NLP symposium (3/155 papers) -- congrats, Erfan!
Sep. 2023 Yicheng and Carter's AR/VR attack work (AR/VR counters , and head motion sensors ) in the news !
Aug. 2023 Core graph paper accepted to Eurosys'24 -- Congrats, Xiaolin and Mahbod!
July 2023 Paper on evolving graph acceleration accepted to Micro'23--Congratulations, Chao and Mahbod!
Mar. 2023 Sankha's paper on Multi-GPU side channels accepted to ISCA'23--congratulations!
Feb. 2023 Paper on detecting adversarial patches accepted to CVPR'23 (collaboration with Ihsen and Bilel)!
Feb. 2023 Two papers accepted to Usenix security on AR/VR security (with Jiasi). Congratulations to Yicheng and Carter!
Jan. 2023 I will serve as co-General chair for ASPLOS'24 with Rajiv !
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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
Abdulrahman Bin Rabiah, 2023, Lucid (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, Google
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
23: ISCA, ASPLOS (ERC), HPCA, SIGSIM-PADS
22: Micro, ISCA, IPDPS, SIGSIM-PADS, ASPLOS (ERC), HASP