Apr 1, 2026
Our paper, “GateBleed: Exploiting On-Core Accelerator Power Gating for High Performance & Stealthy Attacks on AI”, has been selected as a 2025 IEEE Micro Top Pick to appear in the September/October 2026 issue of the IEEE Micro magazine
Mar 22, 2026
Our peer-reviewed paper, “CacheMind: From Miss Rates to Why-Natural-Language, Trace-Grounded Reasoning for Cache Replacement”, has been accepted at ASPLOS 2026
Feb 20, 2026
Our peer-reviewed paper, “FeatureBleed: Inferring Private Enriched Attributes From Sparsity-Optimized AI Accelerators”, has been published in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
Jul 1, 2025
New Ph.D. Student! Bita Aslrousta joined BrainSpec
Jan 1, 2025
New Ph.D. Student! Kaushal Mhapsekar joined BrainSpec
July 14, 2025
Our peer-reviewed paper, “GATEBLEED: Exploiting On-Core Accelerator Power Gating for High Performance & Stealthy Attacks on AI”, has been accepted at MICRO 2025
Mar 20, 2025
“Exploiting Intel AMX Power Gating” Published to IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
Feb 20, 2025
“Thor: A Non-Speculative Value Dependent Timing Side Channel Attack Exploiting Intel AMX” has been published at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
Aug 18, 2024
New Ph.D. Student! Darsh Asher joined BrainSpec
Aug 18, 2023
New Ph.D. Students! Azam Ghanbari and Farshad Dizani joined BrainSpec
Jun 1, 2023
New Ph.D. Student! Joshua Kalyanapu joined BrainSpec