News

Recent News from our Lab:

06/06/2023: Congratulations to Raquib for successful PhD defense. (Video)

05/23/2023: Dr. Ray delivered an invited talk at the International Memory Workshop (IMW), Monterey, CA.

04/21/2023: Dr. Ray receieved the  2023 University Distinguished Research, Creative Achievement, and Scholarly Performance Award. (Link)

12/02/2022: Sijay Huang successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Sijay! (Video)

10/25/2022: Our group's research on radiation effects on SRAM-PUF led by Umesh receieved the best poster award at IEEE PAINE conference. (Link) 

10/18/2022: Congratulations Raquib for winning the Mary Makima and Lester M. Ross, Sr. Scholarship, 2022.

05/02/2022: Raquib and Matchima's paper on NAND sanitization is accepted for oral presentation at SYSTOR'22.

04/04/2022: Umesh and Horace's paper on radiation effects of SRAM PUF got accepted in NSREC 2022. Congrats.

03/31/2022:  Raquib presented his work on 3D NAND endurance at IRPS 2022, Dallas, TX. Here is his presentation (Video)

03/01/2022:  Will receieved GEM fellowship! Congratulations 

01/30/2022: Our paper EXPRESS ( energy-efficient flash storage) is online (link). 

01/15/2022 : Thank you NSF for supporting our research with NSF CAREER Award.  UAH News

05/17/2021: Raquib wins the Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholar Program (GRSP) Fellowship, 2021. Congrats!

04/26/2021 : Preeti successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Good luck for your next endeavor at Micron Technology. 

Thesis Title: " TOTAL IONIZING DOSE EFFECTS ON THE STATE-OF-THE-ART NAND FLASH MEMORIES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DOSIMETER DESIGN"

Defense Presentation: Video 

04/17/2021

Four abstracts got accepted  for presentation in IEEE NSREC from our group. Congrats Preeti, Matchima, Umesh and Sakib! Here are the titles of the accepted abstracts:

1) "Design considerations for flash memory based dosimeter" (oral)

2) "Total-Ionizing-Dose Resistant Novel Data Encoding Technique for NAND Memory" (poster)

3) “Total-Ionizing-Dose Effects on Read Noise of MLC 3D NAND Memories” (poster)

4) "Total-Ionizing-Dose Effects on Long-term Data Retention Characteristics of Commercial 3D NAND Memories" (poster)


03/09/2021

Congratulations Sakib for successfully defending your  PhD dissertation today. Wish you good luck for your next chapter at Intel Corporation.

Thesis Title: "Hardware Security Primitives Using NAND Flash Memory"

Defense Talk: Video


02/10/2021

Umesh's paper titled " Gamma Ray Induced Error Pattern Analysis for MLC 3-D NAND Flash Memories" got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.  Congratulations Umesh!

01/16/2021

Preeti's paper titled "Radiation Induced Error Mitigation by Read-Retry Technique for MLC 3-D NAND Flash Memory " got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.  Congratulations Preeti!

08/18/2020

We have received new funding from NSF (Abstract #2007403). Thank you NSF and congratulations Dr Milenkovic. 

CNS Core: Small: Ensuring Privacy by Runtime Analog Sanitization of Solid State Storage Devices

08/03/2020

Sakib's paper titled "Flash Watermark: An Anti-Counterfeiting Technique for NAND Flash Memories" got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

Congratulations Sakib!

07/31/2020

Preeti's paper titled "Layer Dependent Bit Error Variation in 3-D NAND Flash Under Ionizing Radiation " got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.

Congratulations Preeti!

07/24/2020

Mehedi's paper titled "Reliability of NAND Flash Memory as a Weight Storage Device of Artificial Neural Network" got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability.

Congratulations Mehedi!

07/16/2020

Our group got awarded a new project from The U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF)  (link).



03/20/2020

Mehedi has successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations Mehedi!

03/18/2020

Three papers from our lab got accepted for presentation in IEEE NSREC 2020. Congrats Preeti, Sakib and Umesh!

03/07/2020

Sakib and Preeti passed their Ph.D Qualifier exams and successfully delivered their thesis proposal. Congrats Sakib and Preeti

02/27/2020

Prawar's paper "Flashmark: Watermarking of NOR Flash Memories for Counterfeit Detection" has been accepted for publication at the DAC 2020 (Design Automation Conference; acceptance rate 23%). Congratulations to Prawar and Dr. Milenkovic! 

02/26/2020

Our group's research on IoT platform development for smart agriculture has been highlighted in news media. (HealthNewsDigest,  UAHnews)

02/20/2020

Dr Ray receives College of Engineering’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 2020.

01/15/2020

Mehedi's paper on Analog Sanitization of NAND Storage got accepted in USENIX Security Symposium 2020 (acceptance rate 15%). Congrats Mehedi.

01/14/2020

Sakib's paper on flash memory based PUF got accepted in IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices. Congrats Sakib.

12/19/2019

We have received new funding from NSF (Abstract #1929099 ). Thank you NSF .

RII Track-4: Real-Time Radiation Dosimetry Using Flash Memory 

12/17/2019

The first patent from our lab on "Flash memory based radiation sensing" got granted by USPTO. (link) 




11/27/2019

Dr Ray has been elevated to senior member, IEEE

10/3/2019. 

Dr. Ray gave a talk titled "Wireless, Passive and Real-time Radiation Dosimeter for Enhanced Situational Awareness”, at the Kansas State University, Manhattan. KS. 

09/03/2019

Our lab is a part of multi-university NSF grant. (link)

08/23/2019

Dr Ray receives the Joseph Dowdle Outstanding ECE Faculty Award, The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

04/14/2019

Our lab is awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy. (link)

08/03/2018. 

Dr. Ray gave a talk titled "Detection of Recycled Flash Memory" at the 2018 Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics (SSCET) in Huntsville, AL. 

05/04/2018

Our work on "counterfeit flash chip detection" is highlighted in many news channels including IEEE Spectrum, UAH News, The register, and phys.org.

11/02/2017

Dr Ray receives the New Faculty Research Award from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). (link)