Hearty congratulations to all the winners!


2016 BEST Hardware Demo Award

  • First place

    Demo # 1 – Hardware Trojans in Wireless Cryptographic ICs: Silicon Demonstration and Detection Evaluation
    • Yu Liu and Yiorgos Markis – U. of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA
  • Second place

    Demo # 11 – Potential Pitfall of RLUT: Fault Attack using Hardware Trojan
    • Shivam Bhasin, Sylvian Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger, Xuan Thuy Ngo, Zakaria Najm – Telecom Paris Tech, Paris, France
      Debapriya Basu Roy, Sikhar Patranabis, and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India

2016 BEST Poster Award

  • Functional Polymorphism for Intellectual Property Protection
    • Jeffrey McDonald – U. of South Alabama, AL, USA
      Yong Kim – Air Force Research Lab, USA
      Todd Andel – U. of South Alabama, AL, USA
      James McVicar – TruBridge, USA
      Miles Forbes
      – U. of South Alabama, AL, USA

2016 BEST Paper Awards

  • Best paper

    A Layout-driven Framework to Assess Vulnerability of ICs to Microprobing Attacks
    • Qihang Shi – U. of Connecticut, CT, USA
      Navid Asadizanjani, Domenic Forte, Mark M. Tehranipoor – U. of Florida, FL, USA

  • Best student paper

    Large Laser Spots and Fault Sensitivity Analysis
    • Falk Schellenberg, Markus Finkeldey, Nils Gerhardt, Martin Hofmann, Amir Moradi, and Christof Paar – Ruhr-U. Bochum, Germany