2021 Research Projects
On-Chip and Continuous Monitoring of EM Signals for Secure Microelectronics and its Obfuscation Techniques
Project ID:
P1_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Rashmi Jha
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. J. M. Emmert


Memometer Passive and Active Memory PUF-Based Hardware
Project ID:
P2_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. J. M. Emmert
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


Synthetic and Natural Benchmarks for Hardware Security and Trust
Project ID:
P3_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ranga Vemuri
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. J. M. Emmert


Automated Synthesis and Validation of On-Chip Security Integrity Monitors
Project ID:
P4_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ranga Vemuri
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


Towards Robust Cross-Device Side-Channel Attacks
Project ID:
P5_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Boyang Wang
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. J. M. Emmert


Reverse Engineering Methodology for FPGA Bitstreams (C)
Project ID:
P6_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. J. M. Emmert
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Nicola Bezzo, UVa


ARIA Additive Components for Hardware Reliability, Integrity, and Aging Monitoring (C)
Project ID:
P7_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Rashmi Jha
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Marc Cahay


NDIA Model for Security Countermeasures, Trust and Assurance of Microelectronics Manufacturing
Project ID:
P8_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. James H. Lambert
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Zachary A. Collier, Mr. Thomas L. Polmateer


Risk Mapping for Mission and Business Assurance and Critical-Device Protection
Project ID:
P9_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. James H. Lambert
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Zachary A. Collier, Mr. Thomas L. Polmateer


On-Chip Parallel-Processing RSSM Switching Power Regulator for EM/Power Side-Channel Security
Project ID:
P10_21
Principal Investigator:
Prof. D. Brian Ma
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yiorgos Makris


Scalable Security Verification Framework for Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal System-on-Chips
Project ID:
P11_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Kanad Basu
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yiorgos Makris


Stochasticity, Polymorphism and Non-Volatility: Three Pillars of Security and Trust Intrinsic to Emerging Technologies (C)
Project ID:
P12_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Joseph S. Friedman
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yiorgos Makris


CAD Flow Development for Design Obfuscation through Post-Fabrication Transistor-Level Programming (TRAP) (C)
Project ID:
P13_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yiorgos Makris
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Carl Sechen, Dr. Benjamin Carrion Schaefer


Design Obfuscation and Performance Locking Solutions for Analog/RF ICs (C)
Project ID:
P14_21
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 (C)
Project ID:
P15_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Kevin Hamlen
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yiorgos Makris


Persistent Cache Monitor to Combat Ransomware
Project ID:
P16_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yunsi Fei
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Prof. Aidong Adam Ding


Secure RISC-V Design, Implementation, and Simulation (C)
Project ID:
P17_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yunsi Fei
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Prof. David Kaeli


Analog Trojan Detection Circuits and Validation Methods (C)
Project ID:
P18_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Aatmesh Shrivastava
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yunsi Fei


Is ARM TrustZone Trustable?
Project ID:
P19_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yunsi Fei
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


NATE: A Neural Network Assisted Timing Profiling for Hardware Trojans Detection (C)
Project ID:
P20_21
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A

