| 2025 | DATE | REACT: Randomized Encryption with AI-Controlled Targeting for Next-Gen Secure Communication. | Zhangying He, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2025 | ICCD | Hammering the Diagnosis: Rowhammer-Induced Stealthy Trojan Attacks on ViT-Based Medical Imaging. | Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Najmeh Nazari, Hossein Sayadi, Houman Homayoun, Abhijit Mahalanobis |
| 2025 | ICCD | FaRAccel: FPGA-Accelerated Defense Architecture for Efficient Bit-Flip Attack Resilience in Transformer Models. | Najmeh Nazari, Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Elahe Hosseini, Fatemeh Movafagh, Chongzhou Fang, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Kevin Immanuel Gubbi, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Setareh Rafatirad, Hossein Sayadi, Houman Homayoun |
| 2025 | ISCAS | PowerPrint: Harnessing Machine Learning for Accurate and Scalable Device Fingerprinting via Power Consumption. | Zhangying He, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2024 | DAC | Beyond Conventional Defenses: Proactive and Adversarial-Resilient Hardware Malware Detection using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Zhangying He, Houman Homayoun, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2024 | DAC | Architectural Whispers: Robust Machine Learning Models Fingerprinting via Frequency Throttling Side-Channels. | Najmeh Nazari, Chongzhou Fang, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Behnam Omidi, Mahdi Eslamimehr, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Hossein Sayadi, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Houman Homayoun |
| 2024 | DATE | ObfusGate: Representation Learning-Based Gatekeeper for Hardware-Level Obfuscated Malware Detection. | Zhangying He, Chelsea William Fernandes, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2024 | EDUCON | The AI Companion in Education: Analyzing the Pedagogical Potential of ChatGPT in Computer Science and Engineering. | Zhangying He, Thomas Nguyen, Tahereh Miari, Mehrdad Aliasgari, Setareh Rafatirad, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2024 | FIE | ChatGPT vs. Gemini: Comparative Evaluation in Cybersecurity Education with Prompt Engineering Impact. | Thomas Nguyen, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2024 | ISCAS | Redefining Trust: Assessing Reliability of Machine Learning Algorithms in Intrusion Detection Systems. | Hossein Sayadi, Zhangying He, Tahereh Miari, Mehrdad Aliasgari |
| 2023 | FIE | Towards Race and Gender Equity in Data Science Education. | Brendan Baird, Namya Radesh, Setareh Rafatirad, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2023 | FIE | Unleashing the Potential of Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Personalized Education. | Chelsea William Fernandes, Tahereh Miari, Setareh Rafatirad, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2022 | EDUCON | Machine Learning to the Rescue: ML-Assisted Framework for Equity-Driven Education. | Wooyoung Chung, Xiyu Zhang, Zunaira Ahmad, Hossein Sayadi, Setareh Rafatirad |
| 2022 | ICCD | Breakthrough to Adaptive and Cost-Aware Hardware-Assisted Zero-Day Malware Detection: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach. | Zhangying He, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2022 | IOLTS | Towards AI-Enabled Hardware Security: Challenges and Opportunities. | Hossein Sayadi, Mehrdad Aliasgari, Furkan Aydin, Seetal Potluri, Aydin Aysu, Jack Edmonds, Sara Tehranipoor |
| 2021 | ICCD | HosNa: A DPC++ Benchmark Suite for Heterogeneous Architectures. | Najmeh Nazari Bavarsad, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Lawrence Landis, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2021 | IOLTS | Adaptive-HMD: Accurate and Cost-Efficient Machine Learning-Driven Malware Detection using Microarchitectural Events. | Yifeng Gao, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Mehrdad Aliasgari, Amin Rezaei, Jessica Lin, Houman Homayoun, Hossein Sayadi |
| 2020 | DATE | Mitigating Cache-Based Side-Channel Attacks through Randomization: A Comprehensive System and Architecture Level Analysis. | Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Liang Zhao, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2020 | ICCAD | Hybrid-Shield: Accurate and Efficient Cross-Layer Countermeasure for Run-Time Detection and Mitigation of Cache-Based Side-Channel Attacks. | Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2020 | ICCD | Phased-Guard: Multi-Phase Machine Learning Framework for Detection and Identification of Zero-Day Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks. | Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Gaurav Kolhe, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2020 | ICMLA | HybriDG: Hybrid Dynamic Time Warping and Gaussian Distribution Model for Detecting Emerging Zero-Day Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks. | Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2020 | IOLTS | SCARF: Detecting Side-Channel Attacks at Real-time using Low-level Hardware Features. | Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun |
| 2019 | ASPDAC | XPPE: cross-platform performance estimation of hardware accelerators using machine learning. | Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun |
| 2019 | DAC | Adversarial Attack on Microarchitectural Events based Malware Detectors. | Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Sairaj Amberkar, Sahil Bhat, Abhijitt Dhavlle, Hossein Sayadi, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad |
| 2019 | DATE | Lightweight Node-level Malware Detection and Network-level Malware Confinement in IoT Networks. | Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Cameron Nowzari, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2019 | DATE | 2SMaRT: A Two-Stage Machine Learning-Based Approach for Run-Time Specialized Hardware-Assisted Malware Detection. | Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2019 | FPL | Pyramid: Machine Learning Framework to Estimate the Optimal Timing and Resource Usage of a High-Level Synthesis Design. | Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Farnoud Farahmand, Hossein Sayadi, Sara Bondi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad |
| 2018 | ASPDAC | Power conversion efficiency-aware mapping of multithreaded applications on heterogeneous architectures: A comprehensive parameter tuning. | Hossein Sayadi, Divya Pathak, Ioannis Savidis, Houman Homayoun |
| 2018 | CASES | Advances and throwbacks in hardware-assisted security: special session. | Ferdinand Brasser, Lucas Davi, Abhijitt Dhavlle, Tommaso Frassetto, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Avesta Sasan, Hossein Sayadi, Shaza Zeitouni, Houman Homayoun |
| 2018 | CLOUD | Energy-aware and Machine Learning-based Resource Provisioning of In-Memory Analytics on Cloud. | Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Devang Motwani, Han Wang, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2018 | DAC | Ensemble learning for effective run-time hardware-based malware detection: a comprehensive analysis and classification. | Hossein Sayadi, Nisarg Patel, Sai Manoj P. D., Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2018 | TrustCom | Customized Machine Learning-Based Hardware-Assisted Malware Detection in Embedded Devices. | Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Onkar Randive, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun |
| 2017 | ICCD | Machine Learning-Based Approaches for Energy-Efficiency Prediction and Scheduling in Composite Cores Architectures. | Hossein Sayadi, Nisarg Patel, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun |