HOST 2025 | IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust

Brian Cohen Memorial Award

  • Matthew Sale

    Air Force Research Laboratory

2024 BEST Hardware Demo Awards

  • First Place

    Towards Hardware Trojan Education
    • Victor Hayashi and Wilson Ruggiero

    • University of São Paulo, Larc-EPUSP
  • Second Place

    Belief Propagation Attack against NTT Implementation on FPGA
    • Zelin Lu, Yiting Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu

    • University of Maryland, George Mason University
  • Third Place

    A Smart Card Emulator based Side Channel Teaching Framework
    • Tim Music

    • Technical University of Munich

2024 Ph.D. Competition Award

  • Modeling and Controlling Sensor Side Channels in Cyber-physical Systems
    • Yan Long

    • Advisors: Dr. Kevin Fu (Northeastern University) and Dr. Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan)

    • School: University of Michigan

2024 BEST Paper Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award

    TinyPower: Side-Channel Attacks with Tiny Neural Networks
    • Haipeng Li, Mabon Ninan, Boyang Wang, and John Emmert

    • University of Cincinnati
  • Best Paper Award

    Security Aspects of Masking on FPGAs
    • Barbara Gigerl, Kevin Pretterhofer, and Stefan Mangard

    • Graz University of Technology

HOST Hall of Fame

Jim Plusquellic
Jim Plusquellic
University of New Mexico
Mark Tehranipoor
Mark Tehranipoor
University of Florida
Saverio Fazzari
Saverio Fazzari
Booz Allen Hamilton
Farinaz Koushanfar
Farinaz Koushanfar
UC San Diego
Ken Mai
Ken Mai
Carnegie Mellon University
Matt Casto
Matt Casto
AFRL
Srini Devadas
Srini Devadas
MIT
Yousef Iskander
Yousef Iskander
Microsoft
Gang Qu
Gang Qu
University of Maryland
Swarup Bhunia
Swarup Bhunia
University of Florida
Cliff Wang
Cliff Wang
NSF

  • Jim Plusquellic - University of New Mexico & Mark Tehranipoor - University of Florida

    For contributions as HOST co-founders, general chairs, steering committee, and numerous initiatives since the beginning of the conference.

  • Saverio Fazzari - Booz Allen Hamilton

    For contributions to establishing HOST as a preeminent conference in the government and industrial sectors.

  • Farinaz Koushanfar - UC San Diego

    For contributions as the first General Chair not co-located with DAC and Steering Committee member.

  • Ken Mai - Carnegie Mellon University

    For serving as General Chair in 2011 and 2012 during early transitional years from workshop to symposium.

  • Matt Casto - AFRL

    Providing 15+ years of leadership, vision, and support to grow the hardware security community.

  • Srini Devadas - MIT

    For outstanding innovations in the field of hardware and architecture security.

  • Yousef Iskander - Microsoft

    For 15+ years of contribution to the field of hardware security and supporting academic research.

  • Gang Qu - University of Maryland

    For 20+ years of contribution to the field of hardware security and community service.

  • Swarup Bhunia - University of Florida

    For his contribution to IEEE technical events and supporting the hardware security community.

  • Cliff Wang - NSF

    For 15+ years of contribution to the field of hardware security and supporting/advocating academic research.