Research Directions

Our research covers the security of entire computer stack from physical and chip security all the way up to the software security. Our projects includes but not limited to the following topics:

  • Microarchitectural Security
  • Post Quantum Cryptography
  • AI for Hardware Security
  • CAD for Hardware Security
  • Secure Edge Devices
  • Tamper and Counterfeit Detection
  • Side Channel and Fault Injection Attack and Defense
  • Photonic and Laser Assisted Physical Security

Sponsors

Funded Projects

National Science Foundation Award 2219810
Collaborative: FMitF: Track I: A Principled Approach to Modeling and Analysis of Hardware Fault Attacks on Embedded Software
2022 - 2026
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Grant 22030006-AWD
Toward a Globaly Competitive Electronics Workforce Endowed with Next Generation CyberSecurity Technologies,
2022 - 2023
National Science Foundation Award 2117349
MRI: Acquisition of High-Resolution Photon Emission/Laser Fault Injection Microscope with High-Performance Computers for Failure Analysis and Security Assessment of Electronic Systems
2021 - 2024
National Science Foundation Award 2026913
CextGenPQ: Post-quantum Schemes for Next Generation Applications
2020 - 2023
Meta Research
Compromise-resistant secure hardware design
2022 - 2023
Intrinsix Inc (DARPA)
Side Channel Attack Testbench Emulator (SCATE)
2020 - 2022
CISCO CSR Grant
PCBmeter: Remote PCB Verification using On-chip IP cores
2020 - 2021
Electric Power Research Institute
Hardware Signature Testing Methodology for Standard PCB
2020 - 2021
Virginia Commonwealth University (INL)
Towards a Safe and Secure-by-design Version of the SymPLE Architecture
2019 - 2020
National Science Foundation Award 2028190
RAPID: Collaborative: A privacy-preserving contact tracing system for COVID-19 containment and mitigation
2020 - 2021
National Science Foundation Award 1931639
SaTC: CORE: Small: Finding and Mitigating Side-channel Leakage in Embedded Architectures
2019 - 2022
National Science Foundation Award 1814406
SaTC: CORE: Small: Super-Human Cryptanalysis for Scalable Side-Channel Analysis
2018 - 2022
National Science Foundation Award 1704176
SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Energy-Harvested Security for the Internet of Things
2017 - 2021
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Pre-computed Security Protocols for Energy Harvested IoT
2017 - 2019