Following our success with last year's Open House, we are again opening the lab up to visitors! This year, demos will be held on the 5th floor of ISEC by Yingzi Lin, Ilya Vidrin, Alireza Ramezani, Taskin Padir, Kris Dorsey, Rob Platt, and Hanu Singh. In Richards Hall, Dagmar Sternad, CJ Hasson, and Max Shepherd will be […]

"Robust System Software for Quantum Computing" Committee Members: Prof. Devesh Tiwari (Advisor) Prof. David Kaeli Prof. Ningfang Mi Prof. Gene Cooperman Prof. Kenneth Brown Abstract: Despite rapid progress in quantum computing in the last decade, the limited usability of quantum computers remains a major roadblock toward its wider adoption. Current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers […]

"Using Floating-Point Timing Side-Channels to Reverse Engineer Deep Neural Networks" Committee Members: Prof. Yunsi Fei (Advisor) Prof. Aidong Ding Prof. Xiaolin Xu Abstract: Trained Deep Neural Network (DNN) models have become valuable intellectual property. A new attack surface has emerged for DNNs: model reverse engineering. Several recent attempts have utilized various common side channels. However, […]