Publications
2024
USENIX
Forget and Rewire: Enhancing the Resilience of Transformer-based Models against Bit-Flip Attacks
Najmeh Nazari Bavarsad, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Chongzhou Fang, Hossein Sayadi, Setareh Rafatirad, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Houman HomayounUSENIX Security 2024WiSec
Swipe2Pair: Secure and Fast In-Band Wireless Device Pairing
Yaqi He, Kai Zeng, Long Jiao, Brian L. Mark, and Khaled N. KhasawnehThe 17th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec24)WiSec
@ICC
Evaluating and Optimizing Cryptographic Offloading for IoT Devices: Attribute-Based Encryption Case Study
Sunanda Roy, Thomas Crowley, Brian L. Mark, Kai Zeng, and Khaled N. KhasawnehIEEE International Conference on Communications 2024 Workshop - Nineth Workshop on NextG (6G and beyond) Wireless Security.DAC
Architectural Whispers: Unveiling Machine Learning Models with Frequency Throttling Side-Channel Fingerprinting
Najmeh Nazari, Chongzhou Fang, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Behnam Omidi, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Hossein Sayadi, Houman Homayoun and Khaled N. Khasawneh61th Annual Design Automation Conference (ACM DAC), 2024.ISQED
Hardware Support for Trustworthy Machine Learning: A Survey
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. Khasawneh25nd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2024DATE
SpecScope: Automating Discovery of Exploitable Spectre Gadgets on Black-box Microarchitectures
Najmeh Nazari*, Behnam Omidi*, Chongzhou Fang, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun and Khaled N. KhasawnehDesign, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2024.DATE
Harnessing ML Privacy by Design Through Crossbar Array Non-idealities
Md Shohidul Islam, Sankha B Dutta, Andres Marquez, Ihsen Alouani, and Khaled N. KhasawnehDesign, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2024.Design & Test
Spectre Returns! Speculation Attacks using the Return Stack Buffer
Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Chengyu Song, Nael Abu-GhazalehIEEE Design & Test 2024.2023
TCAD
SecureVolt: Enhancing Deep Neural Networks Security via Undervolting
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. KhasawnehIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD), 2023IEEE
MICRO
Adversarial Attacks against Machine Learning-based Resource Provisioning Systems
Najmeh Nazari Bavarsad, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Behnam Omidi, Setareh Rafatirad, Hossein Sayadi, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Houman HomayounIEEE MICROGLSVLSI
A Brain-inspired Approach for Malware Detection using Sub-semantic Hardware Features
Maryam Parsa, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Ihsen Alouani33th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2023HOST
Vpp: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning via Undervolting
Md Shohidul Islam, Behnam Omidi, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. KhasawnehIEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2023.DAC
Stochastic-HMDs: Adversarial-Resilient Hardware Malware Detectors via Undervolting
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. Khasawneh60th Annual Design Automation Conference (ACM DAC), 2023.NDSS
HeteroScore: Evaluating and Mitigating Cloud Security Threats Brought by Heterogeneity
Chongzhou Fang, Najmeh Nazari, Behnam Omidi, Han Wang, Aditya Puri, Manish Arora, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, and Khaled N. KhasawnehNetwork and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2023.2022
5GBeyond @GLOBECOM
Secure and Energy-Efficient Proximity-Based Pairing for IoT Devices
Yaqi He, Kai Zeng, Brian Mark, Khaled N. KhasawnehThe Seventh IEEE Workshop on 5G and Beyond Wireless Security in Globecom, 2022IJCNN
ROOM: Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks Under Real-Time Constraints
Amira Guesmi, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Ihsen AlouaniInternational Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2022.SOT5G
@WCNC
Characterization of AES Implementations on Microprocessor-based IoT Devices
Sunanda Roy, Angelos Stavrou, Brian L. Mark, Kai Zeng, Sai Manoj P D, Khaled N. KhasawnehWorkshop on Securing and Operating Through 5G in WCNC, 2022.NDSS
REPTTACK: Exploiting Cloud Schedulers to Guide Co-Location Attacks
Chongzhou Fang, Han Wang, Najmeh Nazari, Behnam Omidi, Avesta Sasan, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Setareh Rafatirad, and Houman HomayounNetwork and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2022.2021
ICCAD
Lower Voltage for Higher Security: Using Voltage Overscaling to Secure Deep Neural Networks
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. KhasawnehInternational Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2021.GLSVLSI
Energy-Efficient and Adversarially Robust Machine Learning with Selective Dynamic Band Filtering
Neha Nagarkar, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao30th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2021SEED
Cloak & Co-locate: Adversarial Railroading of Resource Sharing-based Attacks on the Cloud
Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Najmeh Nazari Bavarsad, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman HomayounIEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED), 2021.TCAD
Imitating Functional Operations for Mitigating Side-Channel Leakage
Abhijitt Dhavlle, Setareh Rafatirad, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Houman Homayoun, Sai Manoj P DIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD), 2021.TC
Efficient Hardware Malware Detectors that are Resilient to Adversarial Evasion
Md Shohidul Islam, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev, Lei YuIEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2021.CogArch
@HPCA
Enhancing Hardware Malware Detectors’ Security through Voltage Over-scaling
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. KhasawnehThe 5th Workshop on Cognitive Architectures in HPCA, 2021.ISQED
MonotonicHMDs: Exploiting Monotonic Features to Defend Against Evasive Malware
Md Shohidul Islam, Behnam Omaidi, Khaled N. Khasawneh22nd International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2021ASPLOS
Defensive Approximation: Securing CNNs using Approximate Computing
Amira Guesmi, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Mouna Baklouti, Tarek Frikha, Mohamed Abid, Nael Abu-GhazalehThe 26th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 20212020
ASHES
@CCS
Lightweight Implementation of the LowMC Block Cipher Protected Against Side-Channel Attacks
Javad Bahrami, Viet B. Dang, Abubakr Abdulgadir, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Jens-Peter Kaps and Kris GajFourth Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES), co-located with ACM CCS, 2020ICCD
ND-HMDs: Non-Differentiable Hardware Malware Detectors against Evasive Transient Execution Attacks
Md Shohidul Islam, Abraham Kuruvila, Kanad Basu, Khaled N. KhasawnehThe 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer DesignGLSVLSI
The Evolution of Transient-Execution Attacks
Claudio Canella, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Daniel Gruss30th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020GLSVLSI
Evolution of Defenses against Transient-Execution Attacks
Claudio Canella, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Daniel Gruss, Khaled N. Khasawneh30th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020GLSVLSI
A Review of In-Memory Computing Architecture for Machine Learning Applications
Sathwika Bavikadi, Purab Ranjan Sutradhar, Khaled N.Khasawneh, Amlan Ganguly, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao30th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020DAC (WIP)
Approx-HMDs: Approximating Hardware Malware Detectors to Defend Against Adversarial Attacks
Md Shohidul Islam, Ihsen Alouani, Khaled N. KhasawnehWork-In-Progress (WIP): 57th Annual Design Automation Conference (ACM DAC), 2020.ISQED
S&P
SPECCFI: Mitigating Spectre Attacks using CFI informed Speculation
Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh, Shirin Haji Amin Shirazi, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Chengyu Song, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2020.2019
MICRO
LATCH: Locality Aware Taint CHecker
Daniel Townley, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Lei YuThe 52th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2019.DAC
SafeSpec: Banishing the Spectre of a Meltdown with Leakage-Free Speculation
Khaled N. Khasawneh, Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh, Chengyu Song, Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh56th Annual Design Automation Conference (ACM DAC), 2019.2018
TDSC
EnsembleHMD: Accurate Hardware Malware Detectors with Specialized Ensemble Classifiers
Khaled N. Khasawneh, Meltem Ozsoy, Caleb Donovick, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry PonomarevIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2018. (extends RAID'15)WOOT
Spectre Returns! Speculation Attacks using the Return Stack Buffer
Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Chengyu Song, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh12th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), 2018.ICCAD
Adversarial Evasion-Resilient Hardware Malware Detectors
Khaled N. Khasawneh, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev, and Lei YuThe 37th International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2018. (Invited paper)2017
MICRO
RHMD: Evasion-Resilient Hardware Malware Detectors
Khaled N. Khasawneh, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev, and Lei YuThe 50th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2017. (acceptance rate: 18.6%)MICRO
Constructing and Characterizing Covert Channels on GPGPUs
Hoda Naghibi, Khaled N. Khasawneh, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh The 50th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2017. (acceptance rate: 18.6%)DAC
RIC: Relaxed Inclusion Caches for Mitigating LLC Side-Channel Attacks
Mehmet Kayaalp, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Hodjat Esfeden, Jesse Elwell, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev, and Aamer Jaleel 54th Annual Design Automation Conference (ACM DAC), 2017. (acceptance rate: 24%)Prior to 2016
TC
Hardware-based Malware Detection using Low-level Architectural Features
Meltem Ozsoy, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Caleb Donovick, Iakov Gorelik, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry PonomarevIEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2016. (extends HPCA'15)RAID
Ensemble Learning for Low-level Hardware-supported Malware Detection
Khaled N. Khasawneh, Meltem Ozsoy, Caleb Donovick, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, and Dmitry Ponomarev18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2015. (acceptance rate: 23.5%)