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20182020
most citedSAT-hard Cyclic Logic Obfuscation for Protecting the IP in the Manufacturing Supply Chain

30 citations · 49 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CR2020

Learning Assisted Side Channel Delay Test for Detection of Recycled ICs

Ashkan Vakil, Farzad Niknia, Ali Mirzaeian +2

With the outsourcing of design flow, ensuring the security and trustworthiness of integrated circuits has become more challenging. Among the security threats, IC counterfeiting and…

cs.LG2020

Conditional Classification: A Solution for Computational Energy Reduction

Ali Mirzaeian, Sai Manoj, Ashkan Vakil +2

Deep convolutional neural networks have shown high efficiency in computer visions and other applications. However, with the increase in the depth of the networks, the computational…

eess.IV2020

Diverse Knowledge Distillation (DKD): A Solution for Improving The Robustness of Ensemble Models Against Adversarial Attacks

Ali Mirzaeian, Jana Kosecka, Houman Homayoun +2

This paper proposes an ensemble learning model that is resistant to adversarial attacks. To build resilience, we introduced a training process where each member learns a radically…

cs.CR2020

SCRAMBLE: The State, Connectivity and Routing Augmentation Model for Building Logic Encryption

Hadi Mardani Kamali, Kimia Zamiri Azar, Houman Homayoun +1

In this paper, we introduce SCRAMBLE, as a novel logic locking solution for sequential circuits while the access to the scan chain is restricted. The SCRAMBLE could be used to lock…

cs.CR2020

On Designing Secure and Robust Scan Chain for Protecting Obfuscated Logic

Hadi Mardani Kamali, Kimia Zamiri Azar, Houman Homayoun +1

In this paper, we assess the security and testability of the state-of-the-art design-for-security (DFS) architectures in the presence of scan-chain locking/obfuscation, a group of…

cs.CR2020

ExTru: A Lightweight, Fast, and Secure Expirable Trust for the Internet of Things

Hadi Mardani Kamali, Kimia Zamiri Azar, Shervin Roshanisefat +2

The resource-constrained nature of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, poses a challenge in designing a secure, reliable, and particularly high-performance communication for this…