Examples of Active Research Focus in Our Lab

• Investigating methods for completely redesigning architecture to enhance security, power efficiency, and performance, exploring new paradigms of computing.
• Investigating novel AI algorithms inspired by brain functionalities for enhancing computing performance, security, and power efficiency through advanced microarchitecture.
• Designing AI algorithm for emergence capabilities in architecture design and analysis.
• Security of AI accelerator solutions.
• Theory of microarchitectural side channel attacks.
• Novel tools for microarchitecture design for performance.
• Novel tools for security analysis, and on-chip microarchitecture security feature design.
• Novel mitigation methodologies for microarchitectural and transient execution side channel attacks.
• AI trust and interpretability for hardware design and security.
• Pathfinding and research on hardware security analysis tools.
• Microarchitecture cryptoanalysis and hardware mitigations for side channel and fault injection resiliency.
• Microarchitecture design of trusted execution engine and its security.
• Use of AI to accelerate or enhance security and security developed to protect AI technologies from a hardware standpoint.
• Use of analytics and machine learning to improve processor design, security and power.
• Groundbreaking advancements in foundational capabilities of AI, including next-generation performance optimization techniques, microarchitecture verification, and resilience against adversarial behavior.
• Innovations in scalable, automated tools and methodologies for hardware design and Formal verification that are effective in addressing common security weaknesses, significantly improving CPU performance and efficiency.
• Emerging AI usages in threat analysis, systemic mitigations, and security enhancements that strengthen High Performance computing, accelerant, and remote communication solutions.
• Architectural and micro-architecture, innovations that improve resiliency and reliability of silicon and electronics against transient faults.