Research Projects
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:
Research Directions
- 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
| Project Details | Duration |
|---|---|
| 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 |