IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
May 5-8, 2025
San Jose, USA
Brian Cohen Memorial Award
Brian Cohen
2022 BEST Hardware Demo Awards
First Place
SCAbox: A Framework for Facilitating FPGA-based Side-Channel Analysis
Joseph Gravellier, Dahoux Sami, Jean-Max Dutertre, Yannick Teglia and Philippe Loubet-Moundi
Second Place
Implementing Digital Sensor on FPGA Detecting Faults via Voltage, Temperature and Clock Glitches
Md Toufiq Hasan Anik, Mohammad Ebrahimabadi, Javad Bahrami, Jean-Luc Danger, Sylvain Guilley and Naghmeh Karimi
Third Place
The Huzz: Instruction Fuzzing of Processors Using Golden-Reference Models for Finding Software-Exploitable Vulnerabilities
Rahul Kande, Addison Crump, Garrett Persyn, Patrick Jauernig, Georges Alsankary, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Aakash Tyagi and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
Attendee’s Choice
eChain: A Blockchain based ecosystem for Trusted Electronic Devices
Nidish Vashistha, Muhammad Monir Hossain, Farimah Farahmandi, Fahim Rahman and Mark Tehranipoor
2022 BEST Microelectronics Competition Awards
IP Security Track
Gator Hardware Oriented Security Team (GHOST)
Md Kawser Bepary, Hasan Al-Shiakh, Shuvagata Saha, Dipayan Saha, Amit Mazumder Shuvo, Mridha Md Mashahedur Rahman, and Fahim Rahman
SoC Security Track
OSU ESL Team
Islam Elsadek, Sherif Abouzeid, Ahmed Ghonem, Elsayed Elgendy, Jeremy Porter, and Mika Brattain
Supply Chain Security Track
UNC-Charlotte Hardware and Embedded Design and Security HEADS ML Model for counterfeit detection Team
Chaitanya Bhure, Geraldine Shirley Nichloas, and Fareena Saqib
2022 Ph.D. Competition Award
Principled and Practical Security for Computing Hardware
Gururaj Saileshwar
Advisor: Dr. Moinuddin Qureshi
School: Georgia Institute of Technology
2022 BEST Paper Awards
Best Paper Award
Multiphysics Simulation of EM Side-Channels from Silicon Backside with ML-based Auto-POI Identification
Lang Lin, Deqi Zhu, Jimin Wen, Hua Chen, Yu Lu, Norman Chang, Calvin Chow, Harsh Shrivastav, Chia-Wei Chen*, Kazuki Monta# and Makoto Nagata#
Paper Recognition Award
A Cache Attacks on the Apple A10 Fusion SoC
Gregor Haas, Seetal Potluri and Aydin Aysu
Paper Recognition Award
Cross-VM Information Leaks in FPGA-Accelerated Cloud Environments
Ilias Giechaskiel, Shanquan Tian* and Jakub Szefer*
2022 BEST WiP Paper Award
Warm Up before Circuit De-obfuscation? An Exploration through Bounded-Model-Checker
Kimia Zamiri Azar, Hadi Mardani Kamali, Farimah Farahmandi and Mark Tehranipoor
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
Yousef Iskander
Microsoft
Gang Qu
University of Maryland
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.
Yousef Iskander – MicrosoftFor 15+ years of contribution to the field of hardware security and supporting academic research.
Gang Qu – University of MarylandFor 20+ years of contribution to the field of hardware security and community service.