Secure & Reliable Systems
Adaptive protection across changing conditions
We build systems that remain safe and dependable as physical conditions, workloads, and attack surfaces change. Our research connects hardware behavior with runtime monitoring and lightweight control, seeking protection mechanisms that respond to the environment while retaining measurable security guarantees and bounded overhead.
Student: Aziz Alajmi
Selected publication
Temperature-aware RowHammer protection
Dynamic RowHammer Threshold Management adapts defense thresholds to live temperature and device variation. The study shows how runtime calibration can remove PRAC’s high-temperature staleness breaches and substantially reduce SALT-C breaches with limited latency overhead, while also exposing defenses whose protection is constrained by capacity rather than threshold choice.
This work reflects our broader direction: cross-layer resilience grounded in explicit evidence about protection, performance cost, and the limits of each mitigation mechanism.
Hoeseok Yang
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
My research interests include hardware/software co-design of AI systems, system security, and embedded system design methodology.