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HOST 2026 Program<\/h1>
\u2588\u00a0<\/span>Regular Sessions<\/strong><\/td>\u2588\u00a0<\/span>Special Sessions<\/strong><\/td>\u2588\u00a0<\/span>KeyNote & Visionary Talks<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
\u2588\u00a0<\/span>Plenary Events<\/strong><\/td>\u2588\u00a0<\/span>Social Events<\/strong><\/td>\u2588\u00a0<\/span>Tutorials & Exhibits<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

*Best Paper Nominee<\/b><\/p>
Monday, May 4<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
08:00 – 16:30<\/strong><\/td>

Registration<\/strong><\/p>

Location<\/strong>: International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:30 – 10:00<\/strong><\/td>

T1: Supply Chain Resilence In Industrial Control Systems<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Muhammad Ahsan, Wooyeon Jo, Muhammad Shaharyar Yaqub and Irfan Ahmed<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td>

T2: Update on SA-EDI Accellera and IEEE P3164 standards<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Sohrab Aftabjahani<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10:00 – 10:30<\/strong><\/td>

Break<\/strong><\/p>

Location<\/strong>: International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10:30 – 12:00<\/strong><\/td>

T3: Silence of the Chips: Advanced Techniques in Hardware Vulnerability Detection<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Chen Chen, Nikhilesh Singh, Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami and Stephen Muttathil<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td>

T4: Enabling Encrypted Boot on Intel-based Systems<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Matthew Areno, Brandon Eames and Kevin Ma<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

12:00 – 13:00<\/strong><\/td>

Lunch<\/strong><\/p>

Location<\/strong>: Atrium<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

13:00 – 14:30<\/strong><\/td>

T5: Data Remanence in Embedded Memories: Security Threats and Sanitization Techniques<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Biswajit Ray and Ujjwal Guin<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td>

T6: Lightweight Cryptography using Composite Mersenne Product Registers<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Arman Allahverdi and Vincent Mooney<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

14:30 – 15:00<\/strong><\/td>

Break<\/strong><\/p>

Location<\/strong>: International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

15:00 – 16:30<\/strong><\/td>

T7: Shift-Left in Hardware Security Verification at Early RTL: Simulation or Formal Verification or Static Analysis or All-of-the-above?<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Vinod Viswanath<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td>

T8: Design-Efficient and Attack-Resistant Hardware Security Primitives and Cryptographic Hardware Accelerators for Secure Computing Platforms<\/strong><\/p>

Presenters:<\/strong> Sachin Taneja<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Tuesday, May 5<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
07:30 – 18:00<\/strong><\/td>

Registration<\/strong><\/p>

Location<\/strong>: International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

07:30 – 08:10<\/strong><\/td>

Coffee & Connections<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:00 – 18:00<\/strong><\/td>

Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>

Location<\/strong>: International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:10 – 08:30<\/strong><\/td>

Opening Remarks<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:30 – 09:10<\/strong><\/td>

Keynote 1: Beyond PQC to Provide Quantum Resilience for Chips<\/strong><\/p>

Speaker:<\/strong> Pim Tuyls, Executive Director, R&D Enginnering, Synopsys<\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Saverio Fazzari<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09:10 – 09:40<\/strong><\/td>

Visionary 1: Scaling National Security: The SCALE Program\u2019s Role in Growing the Nation\u2019s Skilled Microelectronics Workforce.<\/strong>
Speaker:<\/strong> Peggy Williams, Navy CRANE<\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Ioannis Savidis, Drexel University<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09:40 – 10:10<\/strong><\/td>

Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10:10 – 11:10<\/strong><\/td>

Regular Session 1: Memory Hardware & Flash Vulnerabilities<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Ujjwal Guin (Auburn University) and Nader Sehatbakhsh (University of California Los Angeles)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p>

*<\/sup>1.1: Erasing Is Not Enough: Data Leakage from Sanitized Charge-Trap NOR Flash Devices<\/strong>
Anjali Murali, Matchima Buddhanoy, Mondol Anik Kumar, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Indrajit Ray, Sudeep Pasricha and Biswajit Ray<\/em>
1.2: VTrack: Defending Against All Rowhammer Attack Patterns by Tracking Victim Rows<\/strong>
Tejeshwar Bhagatsing Thorawade, Varun Venkitaraman, Keerthisagar Kokkiligadda, Samiksha Verma and Virendra Singh<\/em>
1.3: RowHammer Vulnerabilities in 3D NAND Flash Induced by Hot Carrier Injection<\/strong>
Habib Ur Rahman, Matchima Buddhanoy, Mondol Anik Kumar, Sudeep Pasricha and Biswajit Ray<\/em><\/p><\/td>

Regular Session 2: Hardware Cryptography & Post-Quantum<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Reza Azarderakhsh (FAU and PQSecure) and Md Tanvir Arafin (George Mason University)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a><\/p>

2.1: LEAH: Lightweight and Efficient Hardware Accelerator for Code-based PQC Scheme HQC<\/strong>
Yazheng Tu and Jiafeng Xie<\/em><\/p>

2.2: CASH: Lightweight Keyed Hash Function Design for Reconfigurable Hardware<\/strong>
Arman Allahverdi, Adil Farooq, Anias Pullen, Yongyu Qiang and Vincent Mooney<\/em><\/p>

2.3: Efficient Low-Latency Masking of Ascon without Fresh Randomness<\/strong>
Srinidhi Hari Prasad, Florian Mendel, Martin Schlaeffer and Rishub Nagpal<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

11:10 – 12:10<\/strong><\/td>

Regular Session 3: Fault Injection Attacks & Methodologies<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Naghmeh Karimi (University of Maryland Bultimore County)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p>

*<\/sup>3.1: Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures on TinyML Algorithms<\/strong>
Anthony Etim, Srilalith Nampally, Aubtin Rasouli, Dustin Mazza, Krishna Chilakapati, Tinghung Chiu, Ferhat Erata, Leyla Nazhandali, Wenjie Xiong and Jakub Szefer<\/em><\/p>

*<\/sup>3.2: Exploring Laser Fault Injection in System-On-Chips: A New Approach for CPU and Cache Attacks<\/strong>
Soline Casavecchia, Driss Aboulkassimi, Jessy Cl\u00e9di\u00e8re, Jean-Max Dutertre and Simon Ponti\u00e9<\/em><\/p>

3.3: CHAPATI: End-to-end methodology to conduct multi-faults injection campaigns<\/strong>
Antoine Gicquel, Ludovic Claudepierre, Damien Hardy, Karine Heydemann and Erven Rohou<\/em><\/p><\/td>

Regular Session 4: Cyber-Physical Systems & Sensor Privacy<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Khaza Anuarul Hoque (University of Missouri-Columbia) and Zhixin Pan (Florida State University)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a><\/p>

4.1: WaLi: Can Pressure Sensors in HVAC Systems Capture Human Speech?<\/strong>
Tarikul Islam Tamiti, Biraj Joshi, Rida Hasan and Anomadarshi Barua<\/em><\/p>

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

4.3: From Uncertainty to Insight: Exploring Circuit-Level Privacy Preservation for Healthcare Applications<\/strong>
Mashrafi Kajol, Nishanth Chennagouni, Wei Lu and Qiaoyan Yu<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

12:10 – 13:20<\/strong><\/td>

Lunch<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Atrium<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

13:20 – 14:40<\/strong><\/td>

Panel 1: Security in Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging<\/strong><\/p>

Moderator: Adam Kimura, Battelle<\/strong><\/p>

Panelists:<\/strong>
Will Zortman, Sandia National Labs
Alan May, Applied Materials
Len Orlando, Ansys
Christian Eakins, Air Force Research Laboratory
John Oakley, University of Florida \/ SRC<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

14:40 – 15:40<\/strong><\/td>Industry Vision Talks<\/strong>
Moderator:<\/strong> Akshay Kulkarni, Prairie View A&M University
Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
15:40 – 17:00<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break & Hardware Demo<\/a><\/strong>
Moderator:<\/strong> Hadi Kamali, University of Central Florida
Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom C<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
17:00 – 18:00<\/strong><\/td>

Regular Session 5: Quantum Security & Firmware Verification<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Sazadur Rahman (University of Central Florida) and Tasnuva Farheen (Louisiana State University)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p>

*<\/sup>5.1: MCM-Leak: Exploiting Mid-Circuit Measurement Control for Covert Quantum Information Leakage<\/strong>
Donald Lushi and Samah Saeed<\/em><\/p>

5.2: QubitHammer: Remotely Inducing Qubit State Change on Superconducting Quantum Computers<\/strong>
Yizhuo Tan, Navnil Choudhury, Kanad Basu and Jakub Szefer<\/em>
5.3: Formal Firmware Verification of an At-Scale VM-level TEE Architecture<\/strong>
Sophia Zhang, Bo-Yuan Huang, Sayak Ray, Jason Fung, Aarti Gupta and Sharad Malik<\/em><\/p><\/td>

Regular Session 6: IP Protection, Trojans & Firmware Fuzzing<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Yuntao Liu (Leigh University) and Sohrab Aftabjahani (Intel)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong><\/p>

Continental Ballroom<\/a><\/p>

6.1: Fuzz\u2019EMup: Leveraging EM Side-Channel Emanation to Guide Black-Box Embedded Firmware Fuzzing<\/strong>
Fatemeh Moradihaghighi, Zihao Zhan, Yanan Guo, Ziming Zhao, Mashrur Chowdhury and Zhenkai Zhang<\/em><\/p>

6.2: Golden-Free Hardware Trojan Detection using Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning<\/strong>
Zhixin Pan, Ziyu Shu, Amberbir Alemayoh and Linh Nguyen<\/em>
6.3: BlindMarket: Enabling Verifiable, Confidential, and Traceable IP Core Distribution in Zero-Trust Settings<\/strong>
Zhaoxiang Liu, Samuel Judson, Raj Dutta, Mark Santolucito, Xiaolong Guo and Ning Luo<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Wednesday, May 6<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
07:30 – 18:00<\/strong><\/td>

Registration<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

07:30 – 08:20<\/strong><\/td>

Coffee & Connections<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:00 – 18:00<\/strong><\/td>

Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:20 – 08:30<\/strong><\/td>

Opening Remarks<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:30 – 09:10<\/strong><\/td>

Keynote 2: From Silicon to Cyberspace: Hardware Security in an Interconnected Threat Landscape<\/strong><\/p>

Speaker:<\/strong> Chrisma Jackson, CISO, Sandia National Labs<\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Prabhat Mishra, University of Florida<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09:10 – 12:10<\/strong><\/td>

Ph.D. Dissertation Competition<\/strong><\/p>

Moderators:<\/strong> Xiaolong Guo (Kansas State University) and Yukui Luo (Binghamton University)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Beverly<\/p>

1. Long Lasting Security against Data Breaches<\/p>

2. Hardware Fuzzing to Secure Modern Hardware<\/p>

3. Cross-Party Formal Verification for Hardware Trust<\/p>

4. Hardware Security Amidst Technology Scaling<\/p>

5. Secure Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing Architectures<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09:10 – 09:40<\/strong><\/td>

Visionary 2: Closing Hardware Gaps with Firmware: Security Assurance Patterns for Secure Compute SoCs<\/strong><\/p>

Speaker:<\/strong> Mo Bashir, Senior Director and Senior Principal Engineer, Intel<\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Kanad Basu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09:40 – 10:10<\/strong><\/td>

Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10:10 – 11:10<\/strong><\/td>

Regular Session 7: Microarchitectural & Cache Side-Channels<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Aruna Jayasena (University of Tennessee) and Vinod Viswanath (Real Intent)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a>
7.1: PermuteV: A Performant Side-channel-Resistant RISC-V Core Securing Edge AI Inference<\/strong>
Nuntipat Narkthong and Xiaolin Xu<\/em>
7.2: GhostTrace: A Membership Inference Attack via Hardware Performance Counters as a Side-Channel<\/strong>
Amisha Srivastava, Anand Menon, Sanjay Das and Kanad Basu<\/em>
7.3: SnoopyPower! Remote Power Attacks on Cache and Coherence Paths<\/strong>
Eliott Qu\u00e9r\u00e9, Maria M\u00e9ndez Real, Alessandro Palumbo, Thomas Rokicki, Lilian Bossuet and Rub\u00e9n Salvador<\/em><\/p><\/td>

Regular Session 8: Physical Trust Anchors & Attestation<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Orlando Arias (University of Massachusetts Lowel)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a>
8.1: InterPUF: Distributed Authentication via Delay PUF and MPC for Reconfigurable Chiplet Interposers<\/strong>
Ishraq Tashdid, Tasnuva Farheen and Sazadur Rahman<\/em>
8.2: TwinAttest: A Digital Twin\u2013Driven Attestation Framework for Programmable Logic Controllers in Industrial Internet of Things<\/strong>
Syed Owais Athar and Muhammad Naveed<\/em>
8.3: Spatial RowHammer Fingerprints: DRAM-Based PUFs for Robust Device Identification<\/strong>
Vineet Suresh Kumar and Mohammad Farmani<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

11:10 – 12:30<\/strong><\/td>

Hardware Hacking<\/strong><\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Kanad Basu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Soheil Salehi (University of Arizona)<\/p>

Judges:<\/strong><\/p>

Orlando Arias, UMass Lowell<\/div>
Aruna Jayasena, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<\/div>
Vijayaprabhuvel Rajavel, HCLTech<\/div>
Vinod Viswanath, Real Intent<\/div>
Honggang Yu, Miami University<\/div>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

12:30 – 13:40<\/strong><\/td>

Lunch<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Atrium<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

13:40 – 15:00<\/strong><\/td>

Panel 2: AI for Automating Hardware Security: Contribution or Fake News?<\/strong><\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Vincent Mooney, Georgia Institute of Technology<\/p>

Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>

Whitney Bachelor, Graf Research<\/p>

Tim Balint, Battelle<\/p>

Richard Ott, United States Air Force (AFIT)<\/p>

Jakub Szefer, Northwestern University<\/p>

Jeremy Muldavin, Cadence<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

15:00 – 15:40<\/strong><\/td>

Industry Vision Talks<\/strong><\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Akshay Kulkarni, Prairie View A&M University<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

15:40 – 17:00<\/strong><\/td>

Coffee Break & Hardware Demo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Hadi Kamali, University of Central Florida<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom C<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

17:00 – 18:00<\/strong><\/td>

Regular Session 9: Side-Channel Attacks on AI Hardware<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Mohammad Farmani (Florida Polytechnic University<\/span>)<\/span> and Cyrus Minwalla (Bank of Canada)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a>
9.1: AdvProtego: A Unified Framework to SafeGuard Deep Learning Models Against Side Channel Leakage<\/strong>
Xiaobei Yan, Chip Hong Chang, Shangwei Guo and Tianwei Zhang<\/em>
9.2: Double Strike: Breaking Approximation-based Side-Channel Countermeasures for DNNs<\/strong>
Lorenzo Casalino, Maria M\u00e9ndez Real, Jean-Christophe Pr\u00e9votet and Rub\u00e9n Salvador<\/em>
9.3: Talking Traces: Audio Reconstruction Power Side-Channel Attack on Neural Network FPGA Accelerators<\/strong>
Johannes Reibold, Vincent Meyers and Mehdi Tahoori<\/em><\/p><\/td>

Regular Session 10: Power, Thermal, and PDN Security<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Honggang Yu (Miami University) and Makoto Nagata (Kobe University)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom<\/a>
10.1: HeatGuard: Adaptive Mitigation in Securing NoC-Based MPSoCs Against Analog Thermal Anomalies<\/strong>
Mahdi Hasanzadeh, Mahdi Fazeli, Kasem Khalil, Cynthia Sturton and Ahmad Patooghy<\/em>
10.2: RuntimeShield: Power Distribution Network-Based Root of Trust for Embedded System Security<\/strong>
Kejun Chen, Zhaowen Chen, Huifeng Zhu, Xuan Zhang, Yuntao Liu, Amberiadis Kostas, Xiaolong Guo and Xianglong Feng<\/em>
10.3: SecureCoin: Preserving Confidentiality In Decentralized Hardware Power Management<\/strong>
Ryan Piersma, Karthik Swaminathan, Martin Cochet, Pradip Bose and Simha Sethumadhavan<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

18:30 – 20:30<\/strong><\/td>

Banquet and Award Ceremony<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Atrium<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Thursday, May 7<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
07:30 – 12:30<\/strong><\/td>

Registration<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

07:30 – 08:20<\/strong><\/td>

Coffee & Connections<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:20 – 08:30<\/strong><\/td>

Opening Remarks<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

08:30 – 09:10<\/strong><\/td>

Keynote 3: Security and Trust At the Intersection of Silicon, Cyber, and AI<\/strong><\/p>

Speaker:<\/strong> Melissa Hathaway, President, Hathaway Global Strategies LLC<\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> JV Rajendran, Texas A&M University<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09:10 – 09:40<\/strong><\/td>

Visionary 3: Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems<\/strong><\/p>

Speaker:<\/strong> William Zortman, Digital Assurance for High Consequence Systems Mission Campaign Manager, Sandia National Labs<\/p>

Moderator:<\/strong> Sandip Ray, University of Florida<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

09:40 – 10:10<\/strong><\/td>

Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Foyer<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10:10 – 11:10<\/strong><\/td>

Regular Session 11: Bit-Flip & Fault Attacks on Neural Networks<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong> Jiafeng “Harvest” Xie (Villanova University) and Christiana Garcia (Virginia Tech)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a>
11.1: ObfusBFA: A Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks<\/strong>
Xiaobei Yan, Han Qiu and Tianwei Zhang<\/em>
11.2: FlipLLM: Efficient Bit-Flip Attacks on Multimodal LLMs using Reinforcement Learning<\/strong>
Khurram Khalil and Khaza Anuarul Hoque<\/em>
11.3: BitFlipScope: Scalable Fault Localization and Recovery for Bit-Flip Corruptions in LLMs<\/strong>
Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat, Sadman Saif and Christiana Chamon Garcia<\/em><\/p><\/td>

Regular Session 12: Memory Defenses & Covert Leakage<\/strong>
Session Chair:<\/strong>\u00a0 Xiaolong Guo (Kansas State University) and Matthew Areno (Rickert-Areno Engineering)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Continental Ballroom\u00a0<\/a>
12.1: Forgotten But Not Gone: Residual Data Exfiltration Attack Against On-Chip FPGA Memories<\/strong>
Bharadwaj Madabhushi, Chandra Sekhar Mummidi and Sandip Kundu<\/em>
12.2: Beyond Defense: A RowHammer Mitigation That Boosts Performance<\/strong>
Samiksha Verma and Virendra Singh<\/em>
12.3: Covert Information Leakage via Hardware-Induced Spectral Shaping<\/strong>
Apostolos Kontarinis, Sameer Dhole, Kiruba Subramani, Aria Nosratinia and Yiorgos Makris<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

11:10 – 12:30<\/strong><\/td>

Panel 3: Mystery Panel<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

12:30 – 13:40<\/strong><\/td>

Lunch<\/strong><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> Atrium<\/a><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

13:40 – 14:40<\/strong><\/td>

Regular Session 13: FPGA Security & Fault Countermeasures<\/strong><\/p>

Session Chair:<\/strong> Yicheng Zhang (George Mason University) and Bharadwaj Madabhushi (AMD)<\/p>

Location:<\/strong> International Ballroom A<\/a>
13.1: The Glitch for Majorities: Breaking Spatial Redundancy Countermeasures<\/strong><\/p>

Xhani Marvin Sass, Orr Dunkelman and Jean-Pierre Seifert<\/em>
13.2: Synthesis of RTL-based Characterization Programs for Fault Injection<\/strong><\/p>

Jonah Alle Monne, Guillaume Bouffard, Damien Courouss\u00e9 and Mathieu Jan<\/em>
13.3: Logic Infusion: Exploiting Topology as a Power Side-Channel Countermeasure in FPGA-based AES<\/strong><\/p>

Kazi Mejbaul Islam, Emmanuel Elias, Baibhab Chatterjee, Debayan Das and Sandip Ray<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

14:40 – 14:50<\/strong><\/td>

Concluding Remarks – Program and General Chairs 2026\/2027<\/strong><\/p>

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