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Date(s) - 03/02/2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Speaker:
Drs. Kimia Zamiri Azar and Hadi Mardani Kamali, University of Florida
Abstract:
Plunged in the globalization ocean of IC supply chain, where multiple parties play crucial roles through Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturing, with the involvement of diverse hardware components from third-party vendors, i.e. Intellectual Property (IP) components, guaranteeing the security of these components against various threats is paramount. An effective hardware security countermeasure against such threats is the use of locking and activation through untrusted IC supply chain stages where multiple entities and potential malicious parties are involved in. Locking a logic (aka. Logic Locking) can be performed at different levels of abstraction on a hardware IP. With much research carried out so far in the community, the applicability, feasibility, and efficacy of this approach have been investigated including metrics to assess the efficacy, impact of locking in different levels of abstraction, threat model definition, resiliency against physical attacks, tampering, and the application of machine learning. This webinar, by elaborating the principals and fundamentals of logic locking, will draw a holistic demonstration of state-of-the-art, in both defensive and attacking sides. This webinar also covers and evaluates current trends in logic locking with the possible changes in threat models, security metrics, and implementation trade-offs.
Speaker Bios:
Kimia Zamiri Azar is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. She received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University in 2021. She also received her M.S. and B.S. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University, 2015, and K. N. T. University, 2013, respectively. Her research interests span hardware security and trust, supply chain security, System-on-Chips security validation and verification, and IoT security. She has multiple publications in high-prestigious journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), and Design Automation Conference (DAC), with awards including nominations for Best Paper Award in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)’20 and IEEE/ACM Conference on Computer-Aided-Design (ICCAD)’20.
Hadi Mardani Kamali is a postdoctoral research associate at Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS), the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, 2021. He received his M.S. and B.S. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, 2013, and K. N. T. University, 2011, respectively. His research delves into hardware security with a particular focus on exploiting IP protection techniques, design-for-trust for VLSI circuits, and CAD frameworks for security (design-for-security), in which he has numerous publications in top journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), and Design Automation Conference (DAC), with awards including nominations for Best Paper Award in ISVLSI’20, ICCAD’19, ICCAD’20, and IEEE CAS’20.

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