

2023
Research Projects
Climate and Related Stressors of Semiconductor Supply Chains
Project ID:
P1_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. James H. Lambert
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Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Zachary A. Collier, Dr. Julianne D. Quinn, Mr. Thomas Polmateer


Risk of Critical Materials Supply Disruptions in Chip Manufacturing
Project ID:
P2_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. James H. Lambert
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Zachary A. Collier, Dr. Garrick Louis, Mr. Thomas Polmateer


Specification Reverse Engineering from FPGA Netlists
Project ID:
P3_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ranga Vemuri
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Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. J. M. Emmert


Data Augmentation to Enhance Machine Learning Based Security Assessment and Reverse Engineering of Microelectronics through a Cloud-based platform
Project ID:
P4_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Sina Shahbazmohamadi
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Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Pouya Tavousi


Automated High-resolution Inspection and Reverse Engineering of Microelectronics Using Laser and Multimodality Microscopy
Project ID:
P5_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Sina Shahbazmohamadi
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Pouya Tavousi


Wafer-Level Provenance Attestation: Machine Learning to the Rescue
Project ID:
P6_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yiorgos Makris
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


Investigating the Weaknesses of IP Protection through eFPGA-based Hardware Redaction
Project ID:
P7_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
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Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Yiorgos Makris


Cost-Effective IC Redaction through a CMOS/MRAM Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric
Project ID:
P8_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Carl Sechen
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Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Joseph Friedman, Dr. Yiorgos Makris


Robust Cross-Device Side-Channel Attacks
Project ID:
P9_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Boyang Wang
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. J. M. Emmert, Dr. Nan Niu


Secure Coding against Hardware Attacks
Project ID:
P10_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Boyang Wang
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. J. M. Emmert, Dr. Nan Niu


Side Channel Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation for Emerging Machine Learning Models on ARM and X86 Architectures
Project ID:
P11_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


Security Analysis of Post-Quantum Cryptography CRYSTAL-Kyber Implementations
Project ID:
P12_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Yunsi Fei
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


Risk and Uncertainty Quantification using Multi-fidelity CHEST Devices
Project ID:
P13_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Negin Alemazkoor
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. James H. Lambert, Dr. Zachary A. Collier


SEFF: Scalable Embedded Firmware Fuzzing for Hardware Peripherals
Project ID:
P14_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Houman Homayoun
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
N/A


Deploying Advanced GPT & LLM Language Models in an Ontology-Driven Framework for Hardware Vulnerability Prediction and Analysis
Project ID:
P15_23
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Setareh Rafatirad
Email:
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Dr. Houman Homayoun

