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most citedBenchmarking at the Frontier of Hardware Security: Lessons from Logic Locking

29 citations · 58 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CR2026

AdvScan: Black-Box Adversarial Example Detection at Runtime through Power Analysis

Robi Paul, Michael Zuzak

TinyML models deployed on edge devices are increasingly adopted in safety/security-critical applications, making them a prime target for adversarial example (AE) attacks where inpu…

cs.CR2025

Guided Reasoning in LLM-Driven Penetration Testing Using Structured Attack Trees

Katsuaki Nakano, Reza Fayyazi, Shanchieh Jay Yang +1

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven interest in automating cybersecurity penetration testing workflows, offering the promise of faster and more consistent v…

cs.CR2025

LLM Embedding-based Attribution (LEA): Quantifying Source Contributions to Generative Model's Response for Vulnerability Analysis

Reza Fayyazi, Michael Zuzak, Shanchieh Jay Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for cybersecurity threat analysis, but their deployment in security-sensitive environments raises trust and safety concerns. With…

cs.CR2025

Michscan: Black-Box Neural Network Integrity Checking at Runtime Through Power Analysis

Robi Paul, Michael Zuzak

As neural networks are increasingly used for critical decision-making tasks, the threat of integrity attacks, where an adversary maliciously alters a model, has become a significan…

cs.CR2024★ 8 cited

ProveRAG: Provenance-Driven Vulnerability Analysis with Automated Retrieval-Augmented LLMs

Reza Fayyazi, Stella Hoyos Trueba, Michael Zuzak +1

In cybersecurity, security analysts constantly face the challenge of mitigating newly discovered vulnerabilities in real-time, with over 300,000 vulnerabilities identified since 19…

cs.CR2023

Exploiting Logic Locking for a Neural Trojan Attack on Machine Learning Accelerators

Hongye Xu, Dongfang Liu, Cory Merkel +1

Logic locking has been proposed to safeguard intellectual property (IP) during chip fabrication. Logic locking techniques protect hardware IP by making a subset of combinational mo…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Fusion is Not Enough: Single Modal Attacks on Fusion Models for 3D Object Detection

Zhiyuan Cheng, Hongjun Choi, James Liang +5

Multi-sensor fusion (MSF) is widely used in autonomous vehicles (AVs) for perception, particularly for 3D object detection with camera and LiDAR sensors. The purpose of fusion is t…

cs.CR2021★ 18 cited

Robust and Attack Resilient Logic Locking with a High Application-Level Impact

Yuntao Liu, Michael Zuzak, Yang Xie +2

Logic locking is a hardware security technique to intellectual property (IP) against security threats in the IC supply chain, especially untrusted fabs. Such techniques incorporate…

cs.CR2020★ 29 cited

Benchmarking at the Frontier of Hardware Security: Lessons from Logic Locking

Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri, Nimisha Limaye +33

Integrated circuits (ICs) are the foundation of all computing systems. They comprise high-value hardware intellectual property (IP) that are at risk of piracy, reverse-engineering,…