IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
May 5-8, 2025
San Jose, USA
2020 BEST Hardware Demo Awards
First Place
SPARTA: Laser Probing Approach for Trojan Detection
Andrew Stern, Shahin Tajik, Farimah Farahmandi and Mark Tehranipoor
Second Place
SCNIFFER: Fully Automated, Low-cost, Efficient EM SCA Attack
Josef A Danial, Debayan Das and Shreyas Sen
Third Place
Machine Learning Bluetooth Transmission State Operation Verification via Monitoring the Transmission Pattern
Abdelrahman Elkanishy, Abdel-Hameed Badawy and Paul Furth
Attendee’s Choice
REFaaS: Remote Exploitation of FPGA-as-a-Service Platforms
Nitin Pundir, Fahim Rahman, Farimah Farahmandi and Mark Tehranipoor
2020 BEST Paper Awards
Best Paper
PARAM: A Microprocessor Hardened for Power Side-Channel Attack Resistance
Muhammad Arsath KF, Vinod Ganesan, Rahul Bodduna and Chester Rebeiro
Best Student Paper
A Novel Golden-Chip-Free Clustering Technique Using Backscattering Side Channel for Hardware Trojan Detection
Luong Nguyen, Baki Yilmaz, Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic
2020 BEST Poster Award
Best Poster
Thwarting Control Plane Attacks with Displaced and Dilated Address Spaces
Lauren Biernacki, Mark Gallagher, Valeria Bertacco and Todd Austin
HOST Hall of Fame
Jim Plusquellic
University of New Mexico
Mark Tehranipoor
University of Florida
Saverio Fazzari
Booz Allen Hamilton
Farinaz Koushanfar
UC San Diego
Ken Mai
Carnegie Mellon University
Matt Casto
AFRL
Srini Devadas
MIT
Jim Plusquellic – University of New MexicoMark Tehranipoor – University of FloridaFor contributions as HOST co-founders, general chairs, steering committee, and numerous initiatives since the beginning of the conference.
Saverio Fazzari – Booz Allen HamiltonFor contributions to establishing HOST as a preeminent conference in the government and industrial sectors.
Farinaz Koushanfar – UC San DiegoFor contributions as the first General Chair not co-located with DAC and Steering Committee member.
Ken Mai – Carnegie Mellon UniversityFor serving as General Chair in 2011 and 2012 during early transitional years from workshop to symposium.
Matt Casto – AFRLProviding 15+ years of leadership, vision, and support to grow the hardware security community.
Srini Devadas – MITFor outstanding innovations in the field of hardware and architecture security.