{"id":55,"date":"2026-05-21T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/host.conferences.computer.org\/2027\/hardware-hacking-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:32:42","slug":"hardware-hacking-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/host.conferences.computer.org\/2027\/hardware-hacking-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Hacking Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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GhostGate: HOST 2027 Hardware Hacking Call for Participation<\/b><\/h2>

GhostGate is the Hardware Hacking Competition at IEEE HOST 2027. It puts agentic AI on both sides of hardware security. Insertion agents hide hardware trojans and hard-to-detect functional bugs in large, complex, open-source chip designs. Assurance agents prove what is correct, detect what is not, and return machine-checkable evidence. Remediation agents trace failures to root causes and verified fixes. Everyone uses the same designs, sandbox, and budgets. The organizers\u2019 detection system, the Oracle, evaluates every insertion and is the public baseline for participant agents.<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Important Dates<\/span><\/h4>

Registration opens on <\/span>November 1, 2026,<\/b> and closes on <\/span>December 18, 2026<\/b>. The challenge will be released on <\/span>January 8, 2026, <\/b>and finalists will be announced on <\/span>March 8, 2027<\/b>. In-person finals will be held at IEEE HOST 2027.<\/span><\/p>

Registration is required. Sign up through the portal, complete your details, enroll in \u201c<\/span>GhostGate, HOST 2027<\/b>\u201d, and select one or more tracks.<\/span><\/p>

Registered participants receive the practice modules on January 8, 2027. It includes a practice design, sandbox image, local validity checker, agent harness with a reference agent, and worked examples for every track.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Contact Information<\/span><\/h4>
Hardware Hacking Competition Chairs<\/span><\/h5><\/div>

\u00a0 \u00a0 Soheil Salehi<\/strong>, University of Arizona – ssalehi@arizona.edu<\/a>
\u00a0 \u00a0 Biswajit Ray<\/strong>, Colorado State University – biswajit.ray@colostate.edu<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Competition Mentors<\/span><\/h5><\/div>

\u00a0 \u00a0 Parsa Mirfasihi<\/strong>, University of Arizona – parsamirfasihi@arizona.edu<\/a>
\u00a0 \u00a0 Muhtasim Alam Chowdhury<\/strong>, University of Arizona –\u00a0mmc7@arizona.edu<\/a>
\u00a0 \u00a0 Sujan Ghimire<\/strong>, University of Arizona –\u00a0sghimire@arizona.edu<\/a>
\u00a0 \u00a0 Harish Kumar Dharavath<\/strong>, University of Arizona –\u00a0 harrydhara16@arizona.edu<\/a><\/p>

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Industry Sponsors<\/span><\/h5>

\u00a0 \u00a0 PilotCrew.AI<\/strong>: https:\/\/pilotcrew.ai\/<\/a>
\u00a0 \u00a0 ChipSageLabs.AI<\/strong>: linkedin.com\/company\/chipsage-labs<\/a><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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