HOST 2026 | IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust

Brian Cohen Memorial Award

  • Jon Graf

    Graf Research

2025 BEST Hardware Demo Awards

  • First Place

    ResCav System: Non-Destructive Microwave Resonant Cavity Technique for Integrated Circuit Authentication
    • Aditya Nechiyil, Robert Lee, and Gregg Chapman

    • Ohio State University
  • Second Place

    Side-Channel Attack on Hardware Implementation of ML-DSA in Post-Quantum Root of Trust
    • Merve Karabulut and Reza Azarderakhsh

    • Florida Atlantic University
  • Third Place

    TRAP: A Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric for Cost-Effective Hardware Redaction
    • Thomas Broadfoot, Aric Fowler, Yiorgos Makris, and Carl Sechen

    • University of Texas at Dallas

2025 Ph.D. Competition Award

  • Cache Side Channel Attacks on Modern Processors
    • Yanan Guo

    • Advisor: Dr. Jun Yang

    • School: University of Pittsburgh

2025 Hardware Hacking Award

  • First Place

    Built to Function, Hacked to Fail: Exploiting PLC Benign Design Features for Stealthy Control Logic Attacks
    • Adeen Ayub, Nehal Ameen, and Irfan Ahmed
  • Second Place

    Attacking Cloud Systems using Passed-through PCIe Devices
    • Chathura Rajapaksha, Manuel Egele, and Ajay Joshi
  • Third Place

    Hacking Hardware Using Software-Exploitable Vulnerabilities
    • Chen Chen, Rahul Kande, Mohamadreza Rostami, David Liu, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran

2025 BEST Paper Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award

    ReFID: A System-Aware Remote Fault-Injection Attack Detection & Mitigation For Secure Heterogeneous System
    • Amit Mazumder Shuvo, Md Latifur Rahman, Jingbo Zhou, Farimah Farahmandi, and Mark Tehranipoor
  • Best Paper Award

    STIQ: Safeguarding Training and Inferencing of Quantum Neural Networks from Untrusted Cloud
    • Satwik Kundu and Swaroop Ghosh
  • Best Paper Finalists

    FanBleed: Stealing Your Secrets via Observing Your Cooling Fan
    • Sisheng Liang, Zhengxiong Li, Zihao Zhan, and Zhenkai Zhang

    WaveSleuth: Retrospective PLC Memory for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems
    • Nehal Ameen, Ramyapandian Vijayakanthan, Adeen Ayub, Aisha Ali-Gombe, and Irfan Ahmed

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
Ramesh Karri
Ramesh Karri
NYU

  • 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.

  • Dr. Ramash Karri - NYU

    For 15+ years of contribution to the field of hardware security