2020 Research Projects
Asynchronous Design for Side-Channel Avoidance
Project ID:
P1_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. J. M. Emmert
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Ranga Vemuri


Connectionless RFID based Secure Supply Chain Management
Project ID:
P2_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Marten van Dijk
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Ulrich Ruhrmair


Reverse Engineering Methodology for FPGA Bitstreams
Project ID:
P3_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. J. M. Emmert
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Carla Purdy, UC; Dr. Ronald Williams, UVa; Dr. Zachary Collier, Uva; Dr. Nicola Bezzo, UVa


Additive Components for Hardware Integrity Monitoring
Project ID:
P4_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Rashmi Jha
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Marc Cahay, Dr. Punit Boolchand


Cost-effective resource allocation to portfolios of security measures for embedded devices in a large-scale system
Project ID:
P5_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. James H. Lambert
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Zachary Collier, Mr. Thomas A. Polmateer


Trusted Enterprise Communications and Cyber-Physical Integration of Advanced Fleet Electrical Vehicle Chargers in a Mobile Electric Grid
Project ID:
P6_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. James H. Lambert
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Zachary Collier


CAD Flow Development for Design Obfuscation through Post-Fabrication Transistor-Level Programming (TRAP)
Project ID:
P7_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yiorgos Makris
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Benjamin Carrion Schaefer, Dr. William Swartz Jr.


Design Obfuscation and Performance Locking Solutions for Analog/RF ICs
Project ID:
P8_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yiorgos Makris
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Ken O, Dr. Andrew Marshall


Formal Security Evaluation of Executing Untrusted Binaries on Embedded Processors
Project ID:
P9_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Kevin Hamlen
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yiorgos Makris


Stochasticity, Polymorphism and Non-Volatility: Three Pillars of Security and Trust Intrinsic to Emerging Technologies
Project ID:
P10_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Joseph S. Friedman
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yiorgos Makris


Secure Processor Design by RISC-V Framework
Project ID:
P11_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yunsi Fei
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Prof. David Kaeli


Current Sensing based On-chip Analog Trojan Detection Circuit Compatible with Chip Design and Validation Flow
Project ID:
P12_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Aatmesh Shrivastava
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yunsi Fei


Cognitive Obfuscation Securing Circuits by Graph Convolutional Networks
Project ID:
P13_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


NATE: A Neural Network Assisted Timing Profiling for Hardware Trojans Detection
Project ID:
P14_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


Embedded Systems Anti-Reverse Engineering using Transient Electronics
Project ID:
P15_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Lei Wang
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. John Chandy


Leveraging Hardware Isolation for Secure Execution of Safety-Critical Applications in Distributed Embedded Systems
Project ID:
P16_20
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Omer Khan
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A

