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.
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Xiaobei Yan, Chip Hong Chang, Shangwei Guo and Tianwei Zhang | AdvProtego: A Unified Framework to SafeGuard Deep Learning Models Against Side Channel Leakage |
| Xiaobei Yan, Han Qiu and Tianwei Zhang | ObfusBFA: A Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks |
| Khurram Khalil and Khaza Anuarul Hoque | FlipRL: Efficient Bit-Flip Attacks on Multimodal LLMs using Reinforcement Learning |
| Nuntipat Narkthong and Xiaolin Xu | PermuteV: 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 Xie | LEAH: 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 Rahman | InterPUF: 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 Saeed | MCM-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 |