IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)

May 4-7, 2026 Washington DC, USA

Accepted Papers (Preliminary List)

The following is a preliminary, incomplete list of accepted papers for HOST 2026. The list will be updated as additional decisions are finalized.

AuthorsTitle
Xiaobei Yan, Chip Hong Chang, Shangwei Guo and Tianwei ZhangAdvProtego: A Unified Framework to SafeGuard Deep Learning
Models Against Side Channel Leakage
Xiaobei Yan, Han Qiu and Tianwei ZhangObfusBFA: A Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from
Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks
Khurram Khalil and Khaza Anuarul HoqueFlipRL: Efficient Bit-Flip Attacks on Multimodal LLMs using
Reinforcement Learning
Nuntipat Narkthong and Xiaolin XuPermuteV: A Performant Side-channel-Resistant RISC-V Core
Securing Edge AI Inference
Mahdi Hasanzadeh, Mahdi Fazeli, Kasem Khalil, Cynthia
Sturton and Ahmad Patooghy
HeatGuard: Adaptive Mitigation in Securing NoC-Based MPSoCs
Against Analog Thermal Anomalies
Yazheng Tu and Jiafeng XieLEAH: Lightweight and Efficient Hardware Accelerator for
Code-based PQC Scheme HQC
Tarikul Islam Tamiti, Biraj Joshi, Rida Hasan and
Anomadarshi Barua
WaLi: Can Pressure Sensors in HVAC Systems Capture Human
Speech?
Lorenzo Casalino, Maria Méndez Real, Jean-Christophe
Prévotet and Rubén Salvador
Double Strike: Breaking Approximation-based Side-Channel
Countermeasures for DNNs
Anjali Murali, Matchima Buddhanoy, Mondol Anik Kumar,
Aleksandar Milenkovic, Indrajit Ray, Sudeep Pasricha and
Biswajit Ray
Erasing Is Not Enough: Data Leakage from Sanitized
Charge-Trap NOR Flash Devices
Ishraq Tashdid, Tasnuva Farheen and Sazadur RahmanInterPUF: Distributed Authentication via Delay PUF and MPC
for Reconfigurable Chiplet Interposers
Anthony Etim, Srilalith Nampally, Aubtin Rasouli, Dustin
Mazza, Krishna Chilakapati, Tinghung Chiu, Ferhat Erata,
Leyla Nazhandali, Wenjie Xiong and Jakub Szefer
Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures on TinyML
Algorithms
Donald Lushi and Samah SaeedMCM-Leak: Exploiting Mid-Circuit Measurement Control for
Covert Quantum Information Leakage
Soline Casavecchia, Driss Aboulkassimi, Jessy Clédière,
Jean-Max Dutertre and Simon Pontié
Exploring Laser Fault Injection in System-On-Chips: A New
Approach for CPU and Cache Attacks
Tejeshwar Bhagatsing Thorawade, Varun Venkitaraman,
Keerthisagar Kokkiligadda, Samiksha Verma and Virendra Singh
VTrack: Defending Against All Rowhammer Attack Patterns by
Tracking Victim Rows
Fatemeh Moradihaghighi, Zihao Zhan, Yanan Guo, Ziming Zhao,
Mashrur Chowdhury and Zhenkai Zhang
Fuzz’EMup: Leveraging EM Side-Channel Emanation to Guide
Black-Box Embedded Firmware Fuzzing
Sophia Zhang, Bo-Yuan Huang, Sayak Ray, Jason Fung, Aarti
Gupta and Sharad Malik
Formal Firmware Verification of an At-Scale VM-level TEE
Architecture
Habib Ur Rahman, Matchima Buddhanoy, Mondol Anik Kumar,
Sudeep Pasricha and Biswajit Ray
RowHammer Vulnerabilities in 3D NAND Flash Induced by Hot
Carrier Injection
Kazi Mejbaul Islam, Emmanuel Elias, Baibhab Chatterjee,
Debayan Das and Sandip Ray
Logic Infusion: Exploiting Topology as a Power Side-Channel
Countermeasure in FPGA-based AES