HOST 2026 Program
| █ Regular Sessions | █ Special Sessions | █ KeyNote & Visionary Talks |
| █ Plenary Events | █ Social Events | █ Tutorials & Exhibits |
*Best Paper Nominee
| Monday, May 4 | ||
| 08:00 – 16:30 | Registration Location: International Foyer | |
| 08:30 – 10:00 | T1: Supply Chain Resilence In Industrial Control Systems Presenters: Muhammad Ahsan, Wooyeon Jo, Muhammad Shaharyar Yaqub and Irfan Ahmed Location: International Ballroom A | T2: Update on SA-EDI Accellera and IEEE P3164 standards Presenters: Sohrab Aftabjahani Location: Continental Ballroom |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Break Location: International Foyer | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | T3: Silence of the Chips: Advanced Techniques in Hardware Vulnerability Detection Presenters: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Chen Chen, Nikhilesh Singh, Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami and Stephen Muttathil Location: International Ballroom A | T4: Enabling Encrypted Boot on Intel-based Systems Presenters: Matthew Areno, Brandon Eames and Kevin Ma Location: Continental Ballroom |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Location: Atrium | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | T5: Data Remanence in Embedded Memories: Security Threats and Sanitization Techniques Presenters: Biswajit Ray and Ujjwal Guin Location: International Ballroom A | T6: Lightweight Cryptography using Composite Mersenne Product Registers Presenters: Arman Allahverdi and Vincent Mooney Location: Continental Ballroom |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Break Location: International Foyer | |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | T7: Shift-Left in Hardware Security Verification at Early RTL: Simulation or Formal Verification or Static Analysis or All-of-the-above? Presenters: Vinod Viswanath Location: International Ballroom A | T8: Design-Efficient and Attack-Resistant Hardware Security Primitives and Cryptographic Hardware Accelerators for Secure Computing Platforms Presenters: Sachin Taneja Location: Continental Ballroom |
| Tuesday, May 5 | ||
| 07:30 – 18:00 | Registration Location: International Foyer | |
| 07:30 – 08:10 | Coffee & Connections Location: Atrium | |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Exhibitions Location: International Foyer | |
| 08:10 – 08:30 | Opening Remarks Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 08:30 – 09:10 | Keynote 1: Beyond PQC to Provide Quantum Resilience for Chips Speaker: Pim Tuyls, Executive Director, R&D Enginnering, Synopsys Moderator: Saverio Fazzari Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Visionary 1: Scaling National Security: The SCALE Program’s Role in Growing the Nation’s Skilled Microelectronics Workforce. Speaker: Peggy Williams, Navy CRANE Moderator: Ioannis Savidis, Drexel University Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Coffee Break Location: Atrium | |
| 10:10 – 11:10 | Regular Session 1: Memory Hardware & Flash Vulnerabilities Session Chair: Ujjwal Guin (Auburn University) and Nader Sehatbakhsh (University of California Los Angeles) Location: International Ballroom A *1.1: Erasing Is Not Enough: Data Leakage from Sanitized Charge-Trap NOR Flash Devices | Regular Session 2: Hardware Cryptography & Post-Quantum Session Chair: Reza Azarderakhsh (FAU and PQSecure) and Md Tanvir Arafin (George Mason University) Location: Continental Ballroom 2.1: LEAH: Lightweight and Efficient Hardware Accelerator for Code-based PQC Scheme HQC 2.2: CASH: Lightweight Keyed Hash Function Design for Reconfigurable Hardware 2.3: Efficient Low-Latency Masking of Ascon without Fresh Randomness |
| 11:10 – 12:10 | Regular Session 3: Fault Injection Attacks & Methodologies Session Chair: Naghmeh Karimi (University of Maryland Bultimore County) amd Prasanth Yanambaka (Texas Women’s University) Location: International Ballroom A *3.1: Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures on TinyML Algorithms *3.2: Exploring Laser Fault Injection in System-On-Chips: A New Approach for CPU and Cache Attacks 3.3: CHAPATI: End-to-end methodology to conduct multi-faults injection campaigns | Regular Session 4: Cyber-Physical Systems & Sensor Privacy Session Chair: Khaza Anuarul Hoque (University of Missouri-Columbia) and Zhixin Pan (Florida State University) Location: Continental Ballroom 4.1: WaLi: Can Pressure Sensors in HVAC Systems Capture Human Speech? 4.2: LiDAR Spoofing for Compromising SLAM on ROS2 Using Statistical Beam Adjustment and Temporal Modeling 4.3: From Uncertainty to Insight: Exploring Circuit-Level Privacy Preservation for Healthcare Applications |
| 12:10 – 13:20 | Lunch Location: Atrium | |
| 13:20 – 14:40 | Panel 1: Security in Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging Moderator: Adam Kimura, Battelle Panelists: Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 14:40 – 15:40 | Industry Vision Talks Moderator: Akshay Kulkarni, Prairie View A&M University Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 15:40 – 17:00 | Coffee Break & Hardware Demo Moderator: Hadi Kamali, University of Central Florida Location: Atrium | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Regular Session 5: Quantum Security & Firmware Verification Session Chair: Sazadur Rahman (University of Central Florida) and Tasnuva Farheen (Louisiana State University) Location: International Ballroom A *5.1: MCM-Leak: Exploiting Mid-Circuit Measurement Control for Covert Quantum Information Leakage 5.2: QubitHammer: Remotely Inducing Qubit State Change on Superconducting Quantum Computers | Regular Session 6: IP Protection, Trojans & Firmware Fuzzing Session Chair: Yuntao Liu (Leigh University) and Sohrab Aftabjahani (Intel) Location: Continental Ballroom6.1: Fuzz’EMup: Leveraging EM Side-Channel Emanation to Guide Black-Box Embedded Firmware Fuzzing 6.2: Golden-Free Hardware Trojan Detection using Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning |
| Wednesday, May 6 | ||
| 07:30 – 18:00 | Registration Location: International Foyer | |
| 07:30 – 08:20 | Coffee & Connections Location: Atrium | |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Exhibitions Location: International Foyer | |
| 08:20 – 08:30 | Opening Remarks Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 08:30 – 09:10 | Keynote 2: From Silicon to Cyberspace: Hardware Security in an Interconnected Threat Landscape Speaker: Chrisma Jackson, CISO, Sandia National Labs Moderator: Prabhat Mishra, University of Florida Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 09:10 – 12:10 | Ph.D. Dissertation Competition Moderators: Xiaolong Guo (Kansas State University) and Yukui Luo (Binghamton University) Location: Beverly | |
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Visionary 2: Closing Hardware Gaps with Firmware: Security Assurance Patterns for Secure Compute SoCs Speaker: Mo Bashir, Senior Director and Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Moderator: Kanad Basu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Coffee Break Location: Atrium | |
| 10:10 – 11:10 | Regular Session 7: Microarchitectural & Cache Side-Channels Session Chair: Aruna Jayasena (University of Tennessee) and Vinod Viswanath (Real Intent) Location: International Ballroom A | Regular Session 8: Physical Trust Anchors & Attestation Session Chair: Orlando Arias (University of Massachusetts Lowel) and Setareh Sharifian (Intel) Location: Continental Ballroom |
| 11:10 – 12:30 | Coffee Break & Hardware Hacking Moderator: Kanad Basu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Soheil Salehi (University of Arizona) Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 12:30 – 13:40 | Lunch Location: Atrium | |
| 13:40 – 15:00 | Panel 2: AI for Automating Hardware Security: Contribution or Fake News? Moderator: Vincent Mooney, Georgia Institute of Technology Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 15:00 – 15:40 | Industry Vision Talks Moderator: Akshay Kulkarni, Prairie View A&M University Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 15:40 – 17:00 | Coffee Break & Hardware Demo Moderator: Hadi Kamali, University of Central Florida Location: Atrium | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Regular Session 9: Side-Channel Attacks on AI Hardware Session Chair: Aydin Aysu (North Carolina State University) and Cyrus Minwalla (Bank of Canada) Location: International Ballroom A | Regular Session 10: Power, Thermal, and PDN Security Session Chair: Honggang Yu (Miami University) and Kyle Juretus (Villanova University) Location: Continental Ballroom |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Banquet and Award Ceremony Location: Atrium | |
| Thursday, May 7 | ||
| 07:30 – 12:30 | Registration Location: International Foyer | |
| 07:30 – 08:20 | Coffee & Connections Location: Atrium | |
| 08:20 – 08:30 | Opening Remarks Location: International Ballroom | |
| 08:30 – 09:10 | Keynote 3: TBD Speaker: TBD Moderator: JV Rajendran, Texas A&M University Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Visionary 3: Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems Speaker: William Zortman, Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems Mission Campaign Manager, Sandia National Labs Moderator: Sandip Ray, University of Florida Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Coffee Break Location: Atrium | |
| 09:10 – 10:10 | Regular Session 11: Bit-Flip & Fault Attacks on Neural Networks Session Chair: Jiafeng “Harvest” Xie (Villanova University) and Xiaolong Guo (Kansas State University) Location: International Ballroom A | Regular Session 12: Memory Defenses & Covert Leakage Session Chair: Christina Garcia (Virginia Tech) and Matthew Areno (Rickert-Areno Engineering) Location: Continental Ballroom |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Coffee Break Location: International Foyer | |
| 10:40 – 12:00 | Panel 3: Mystery Panel Location: International Ballroom A | |
| 12:00 – 13:10 | Lunch Location: Atrium | |
| 13:10 – 14:10 | Regular Session 13: FPGA Security & Fault Countermeasures Session Chair: Yicheng Zhang (George Mason University) and Bharadwaj Madabhushi (AMD) Location: International Ballroom A Xhani Marvin Sass, Orr Dunkelman and Jean-Pierre Seifert Jonah Alle Monne, Guillaume Bouffard, Damien Couroussé and Mathieu Jan Kazi Mejbaul Islam, Emmanuel Elias, Baibhab Chatterjee, Debayan Das and Sandip Ray | |
| 14:10 – 14:50 | Concluding Remarks – Program and General Chairs 2026/2027 Location: International Ballroom A | |