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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

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Memometer Passive and Active Memory PUF-Based Hardware

Project ID:

P2_21

Principal Investigator:

Dr. J. M. Emmert

Co-Principal Investigator(s):

N/A

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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

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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

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Towards Robust Cross-Device Side-Channel Attacks

Project ID:

P5_21

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Boyang Wang

Co-Principal Investigator(s):

Dr. J. M. Emmert

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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 

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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

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Persistent Cache Monitor to Combat Ransomware

Project ID:

P16_21

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Yunsi Fei

Co-Principal Investigator(s):

Prof. Aidong Adam Ding

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Secure RISC-V Design, Implementation, and Simulation (C)

Project ID:

P17_21

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Yunsi Fei

Co-Principal Investigator(s):

Prof. David Kaeli

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Analog Trojan Detection Circuits and Validation Methods (C)

Project ID:

P18_21

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Aatmesh Shrivastava

Co-Principal Investigator(s):

Dr. Yunsi Fei

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Is ARM TrustZone Trustable?

Project ID:

P19_21

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Yunsi Fei

Co-Principal Investigator(s):

N/A

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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

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