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  • 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!
  • Oct. 2022 CommonGraph paper on evolving graph processing accepted to ASPLOS'23 -- congratulations, Mahbod and Chao!
  • Sept. 2022 Erfan, Nurlan, Pedram, Ravan and Saber join the SEAS lab. -- Welcome!
  • Aug. 2022 Congratulations Reza and Ahmed for successfully defending their PhD!
  • July 2022 Paper on evasion resilient microarchitecture attack detection accepted to Micro'22.
  • July 2022 New grant on security and privacy of ML--Thanks, NSF!
  • May 2022 Our new survey article on Heterogeneous system attacks to appear in ACM CSUR
  • April 2022 Our multi-gpu side channel attack tech report is in the news (Security week, Register)
  • Feb. 2022 Sankha defended his PhD and is joining PNNL as a post-doc--Congratulations!
  • Dec. 2021 SpectreRSB selected a top pick in architecture and hardware security
  • Oct. 2021 Shafi defended his PhD and joined Facebook -- Congratulations!
  • Sept. 2021 New grant from Facebook with Prof. Jiasi Chen on AR/VR security!
  • Sept. 2021 JetStream accepted to Micro-- Congratulations, Shafi and Mahbod!
  • Aug. 2021 Welcoming Chao, Mamun and Yicheng to the lab!
  • May 2021 Hodjat defended his PhD and joined Google-- Congratulations, Dr. Asghari Esfeden!
  • May 2021 Humbled to be recognized by UCR's Doctoral Dissertation Advisor award
  • April 2021 Two papers accepted to Usenix Security! Congratulations to Fatemah and Daimeng!
  • Mar. 2021 Abdulrahman's Mergeable Stateful Signatures paper accepted to ICDCS. Congratulations!
  • Mar. 2021 Two papers accepted to ISCA; congratulations Sankha, Amirali and Hodjat!
  • Feb. 2021 New grant to study security of isolated execution. Thanks, NSF!
  • Jan. 2021 Selected as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor from 2021 to 2023
  • Jan. 2021 Elevated to ACM Distinguished member
  • Dec. 2020 Nael inducted into Micro Hall of Fame
  • Nov. 2020 Defensive approximation paper accepted to ASPLOS
  • Nov. 2020 Tech. disclosure filed for our BOW design to improve performance and energy efficiency of GPUs.
  • Oct. 2020 New center for large-scale resilient networking. Thanks, DoD/ARL!
  • Sept. 2020 Keynote talk at GLSVLSI
  • Aug. 2020 We have 3 papers accepted to appear at Micro! Congratulations to Shafi (GraphPulse), Hodjat (BOW), and Samira and Reza (PerSpectron)
  • 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 Keynote talk at the AIDarch workshop with ISCA
  • 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
  • Mar. 2019: New IEEE Spectrum article explaining Spectre and Meltdown
  • Jan. 2019: Two papers accepted to DAC'19. Congrats, Khaled and Daimeng.
  • Dec. 2018: Fatemah's paper on client-side DNS poisoning to appear in Infocom'19 (Fix/credit from Apple)
  • Dec. 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 Diego
  • Oct. 2018 : Nael gives a keynote talk at the SecArch workshop held with CCS.
  • Oct. 2018: VPPS paper presented at Micro'18
  • Aug. 2018: Hoda's paper on GPU side channels accepted to CCS! (UCR news release), CVE-2018-6260
  • July 2018: Spectre Returns (SpectreRSB) attack is in the news! This is a new variant of Spectre that we developed (awarded best paper WOOT 18). Congratulations Reza and Khaled! (CVE-2018-15572)
  • June 2018: SafeSpec in the news! SafeSpec is a design principle to defend against speculation attacks.
  • June 2018: Shirin and Fatemah receive scholarships to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration conference!
  • May 2018: Honored to receive the best Prof. award for 17/18 from the UCR ACM chapter. Thanks, guys (and gals)!
  • April 2018: Khaled's ensemble hardware malware detectors paper received a research highlight from nature electronics. Unfortunately, its behind a paywall; contact me if you would like a copy.
  • March 2018: Branchscope is in the news!, CVE-2018-9056
  • Jan. 2018: Our research contributes to Meltdown/Specter attacks: our branch predictor attack research one of the important pieces used by Google Project zero to enable the recent dangerous and widely publicized Meltdown/Specter attacks! This work was done by Dmitry Evtyushkin (now at College of William & Mary) as part of his PhD (co-advised with Dmitry Ponomarev)
  • July 2017: Two papers accepted to Micro--Congratulations, Khaled and Hoda!
  • July 2017: Israat joins Dalhousie University as a tenure track Assistant Professor!
  • June 2017: Mehmet joins University of New Hampshire (ECE Department) as a tenure track Assistant Professor!
  • June 2017: Dmitry joins William and Mary (CS Department) as a tenure track Assistant Professor!
  • May, 2017: Shafi's SIGSIM-PADS paper nominated for best paper award!
  • Nov, 2016: New NSF Grant on hardware support for Malware detection in the news. Sample articles: Phys.org, Science Explorer, HelpNetSecurity, Digital Trends , Bleeping Computer
  • Nov, 2016: Vinay, Israat and Vikram receive best paper award at ICNP 2016 for their paper on transport of correlated videos in smart camera networks. ICNP is one of the premier conferences in computer networks. Congratulations!
  • Oct, 2016: Dmitry's Micro 2016 paper was reported on widely in the news, including Yahoo! Finance, Ars Technica, Computer World and PC World.
  • May, 2016: Mehmet's DAC paper nominated for best paper award!