HOST 2026 Program

^*1.1: 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

1.2: VTrack: Defending Against All Rowhammer Attack Patterns by Tracking Victim Rows
Tejeshwar Bhagatsing Thorawade, Varun Venkitaraman, Keerthisagar Kokkiligadda, Samiksha Verma and Virendra Singh

1.3: RowHammer Vulnerabilities in 3D NAND Flash Induced by Hot Carrier Injection
Samiksha Verma and Virendra Singh

2.1: LEAH: Lightweight and Efficient Hardware Accelerator for Code-based PQC Scheme HQC
Yazheng Tu and Jiafeng Xie

2.2: CASH: Lightweight Keyed Hash Function Design for Reconfigurable Hardware
Arman Allahverdi, Adil Farooq, Anias Pullen, Yongyu Qiang and Vincent Mooney

2.3: Efficient Low-Latency Masking of Ascon without Fresh Randomness
Srinidhi Hari Prasad, Florian Mendel, Martin Schlaeffer and Rishub Nagpal

^*3.1: 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

^*3.2: 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

3.3: CHAPATI: End-to-end methodology to conduct multi-faults injection campaigns
Antoine Gicquel, Ludovic Claudepierre, Damien Hardy, Karine Heydemann and Erven Rohou

4.1: WaLi: Can Pressure Sensors in HVAC Systems Capture Human Speech?
Tarikul Islam Tamiti, Biraj Joshi, Rida Hasan and Anomadarshi Barua

4.2: LiDAR Spoofing for Compromising SLAM on ROS2 Using Statistical Beam Adjustment and Temporal Modeling
Finn Schaefer, Ryan Lam, Sidarth Kumar, Jimmy Tram, Neil Sharma and Md Tanvir Arafin

4.3: From Uncertainty to Insight: Exploring Circuit-Level Privacy Preservation for Healthcare Applications
Mashrafi Kajol, Nishanth Chennagouni, Wei Lu and Qiaoyan Yu

^*5.1: MCM-Leak: Exploiting Mid-Circuit Measurement Control for Covert Quantum Information Leakage
Donald Lushi and Samah Saeed

5.2: QubitHammer: Remotely Inducing Qubit State Change on Superconducting Quantum Computers
Yizhuo Tan, Navnil Choudhury, Kanad Basu and Jakub Szefer

5.3: Formal Firmware Verification of an At-Scale VM-level TEE Architecture
Sophia Zhang, Bo-Yuan Huang, Sayak Ray, Jason Fung, Aarti Gupta and Sharad Malik

6.1: Fuzz’EMup: Leveraging EM Side-Channel Emanation to Guide Black-Box Embedded Firmware Fuzzing
Fatemeh Moradihaghighi, Zihao Zhan, Yanan Guo, Ziming Zhao, Mashrur Chowdhury and Zhenkai Zhang

6.2: Golden-Free Hardware Trojan Detection using Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning
Zhixin Pan, Ziyu Shu, Amberbir Alemayoh and Linh Nguyen

6.3: BlindMarket: Enabling Verifiable, Confidential, and Traceable IP Core Distribution in Zero-Trust Settings
Zhaoxiang Liu, Samuel Judson, Raj Dutta, Mark Santolucito, Xiaolong Guo and Ning Luo

7.1: PermuteV: A Performant Side-channel-Resistant RISC-V Core Securing Edge AI Inference
Nuntipat Narkthong and Xiaolin Xu

7.2: GhostTrace: A Membership Inference Attack via Hardware Performance Counters as a Side-Channel
Amisha Srivastava, Anand Menon, Sanjay Das and Kanad Basu

7.3: SnoopyPower! Remote Power Attacks on Cache and Coherence Paths
Eliott Quéré, Maria Méndez Real, Alessandro Palumbo, Thomas Rokicki, Lilian Bossuet and Rubén Salvador

8.1: InterPUF: Distributed Authentication via Delay PUF and MPC for Reconfigurable Chiplet Interposers
Ishraq Tashdid, Tasnuva Farheen and Sazadur Rahman

8.2: TwinAttest: A Digital Twin–Driven Attestation Framework for Programmable Logic Controllers in Industrial Internet of Things
Syed Owais Athar and Muhammad Naveed

8.3: Spatial RowHammer Fingerprints: DRAM-Based PUFs for Robust Device Identification
Vineet Suresh Kumar and Mohammad Farmani

9.1: AdvProtego: A Unified Framework to SafeGuard Deep Learning Models Against Side Channel Leakage
Xiaobei Yan, Chip Hong Chang, Shangwei Guo and Tianwei Zhang

9.2: Double Strike: Breaking Approximation-based Side-Channel Countermeasures for DNNs
Lorenzo Casalino, Maria Méndez Real, Jean-Christophe Prévotet and Rubén Salvador

9.3: Talking Traces: Audio Reconstruction Power Side-Channel Attack on Neural Network FPGA Accelerators
Johannes Reibold, Vincent Meyers and Mehdi Tahoori

10.1: HeatGuard: Adaptive Mitigation in Securing NoC-Based MPSoCs Against Analog Thermal Anomalies
Mahdi Hasanzadeh, Mahdi Fazeli, Kasem Khalil, Cynthia Sturton and Ahmad Patooghy

10.2: RuntimeShield: Power Distribution Network-Based Root of Trust for Embedded System Security
Kejun Chen, Zhaowen Chen, Huifeng Zhu, Xuan Zhang, Yuntao Liu, Amberiadis Kostas, Xiaolong Guo and Xianglong Feng

10.3: SecureCoin: Preserving Confidentiality In Decentralized Hardware Power Management
Ryan Piersma, Karthik Swaminathan, Martin Cochet, Pradip Bose and Simha Sethumadhavan

11.1: ObfusBFA: A Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks
Xiaobei Yan, Han Qiu and Tianwei Zhang

11.2: FlipRL: Efficient Bit-Flip Attacks on Multimodal LLMs using Reinforcement Learning
Khurram Khalil and Khaza Anuarul Hoque

11.3: BitFlipScope: Scalable Fault Localization and Recovery for Bit-Flip Corruptions in LLMs
Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat, Sadman Saif and Christiana Chamon Garcia

12.1: Forgotten But Not Gone: Residual Data Exfiltration Attack Against On-Chip FPGA Memories
Bharadwaj Madabhushi, Chandra Sekhar Mummidi and Sandip Kundu

12.2: Beyond Defense: A RowHammer Mitigation That Boosts Performance
Samiksha Verma and Virendra Singh

12.3: Covert Information Leakage via Hardware-Induced Spectral Shaping
Apostolos Kontarinis, Sameer Dhole, Kiruba Subramani, Aria Nosratinia and Yiorgos Makris

13.1: The Glitch for Majorities: Breaking Spatial Redundancy Countermeasures
Xhani Marvin Sass, Orr Dunkelman and Jean-Pierre Seifert

13.2: Synthesis of RTL-based Characterization Programs for Fault Injection
Jonah Alle Monne, Guillaume Bouffard, Damien Couroussé and Mathieu Jan

13.3: Logic Infusion: Exploiting Topology as a Power Side-Channel Countermeasure in FPGA-based AES
Kazi Mejbaul Islam, Emmanuel Elias, Baibhab Chatterjee, Debayan Das and Sandip Ray