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

May 4-7, 2026 Washington DC, USA

HOST 2026 Awards

Brian Cohen Memorial Award

Vivian Kammler

Sandia National Laboratories

Best Tutorial Award

Design-Efficient and Attack-Resistant Hardware Security Primitives and Cryptographic Hardware Accelerators for Secure Computing Platforms

Sachin Taneja

Hardware Demo Competition

1st: SPY-PUF: Learning from One PUF to Spy on Another

Javad Bahrami (UMBC), Hasin Ishraq Reefat (UMBC), Hossein Pourmehrani (UMBC),
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi (UMBC), Wei Cheng (LTCI), Jean-Luc Danger (LTCI), Sylvain Guilley (LTCI) and Naghmeh Karimi (UMBC)

 

2nd: Correlation Power Analysis of Hamming-Quasi Cyclic

Huizhen Zhou (GMU), Luke Beckwith (GMU/PQSecure), Sanjay Deshpande (NWU), Xiaokuan Zhang (GMU),
Kris Gaj (GMU) and Jakub Szefer (NWU)

 

3rd: Trust and Assurance Assessment under Fault Conditions of a RISC-V Emulated on a Versal SoC

Arjun Hati (ASU), Nikolaos Mastorakis (ASU), Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (ASU), Jim Plusquellic (UNM) and Krishnendu Chakrabarty (ASU)

Ph.D. Competition Award

Robert Dumitru, Adelaide University

Thesis Title: Hardware Security Amidst Technology Scaling
Advisor: Dr. Yuval Yarom, Ruhr University Bochum

Hardware Hacking Competition

1st: Probably Secure

Parnia (Paris) Talebi, Marissa Marcarelli, Hasala Senevirathne

 

2nd: Byte by Byte

Sameer Raju Dhole, Srinidhi Malladi

 

3rd: ASEEC Lab

Kevin Immanuel Gubbi, Marcus Halm, Yun-Gang Lee, Vandana Chidanand Mansur

2026 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

Exploring Laser Fault Injection in System-On-Chips: A New Approach for CPU and Cache Attacks
Soline Casavecchia, Driss Aboulkassimi, Jessy Clédière, Jean-Max Dutertre and Simon Pontié

 

Best Student Paper

Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures on TinyML Algorithms
Anthony Etim, Srilalith Nampally, Aubtin Rasouli, Dustin Mazza, Krishna Chilakapati, Tinghung Chiu, Ferhat Erata, Leyla Nazhandali,
Wenjie Xiong and Jakub Szefer

 

Best Paper Finalists

Erasing Is Not Enough: Data Leakage from Sanitized Charge-Trap NOR Flash Devices
Anjali Murali, Matchima Buddhanoy, Mondol Anik Kumar, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Indrajit Ray, Sudeep Pasricha and Biswajit Ray
MCM-Leak: Exploiting Mid-Circuit Measurement Control for Covert Quantum Information Leakage
Donald Lushi and Samah Saeed

2026 HOST Hall of Fame Inductee

Dr. Waleed Khalil

The Ohio State University