@inproceedings{asplos25-xui,
    author = “Aydogmus, Berk and Guo, Linsong and Zuberi, Danial and Garfinkel, Tal and Tullsen, Dean and Ousterhout, Amy and Taram, Kazem”,
    title = “Extended User Interrupts (xUI): Fast and Flexible Notification without Polling”,
    booktitle = “International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems”,
    year = “2025”,
    month = “April”,
    series = “ASPLOS”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/xui-asplos25.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{asplos24-pathfinder,
    author = “Yavarzadeh, Hosein and Agarwal, Archit and Christman, Max and Garman, Christina and Genkin, Daniel and Kwong, Andrew and Moghimi, Daniel and Stefan, Deian and Taram, Kazem and Tullsen, Dean”,
    title = “Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor”,
    booktitle = “International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems”,
    year = “2024”,
    month = “April”,
    series = “ASPLOS”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/pathfinder-asplos24.pdf”,
    artifact = “https://github.com/hoseinyavarzadeh/Pathfinder_Attack”,
    video = “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A4EOWLrlE”
}

    

       
@article{toppicks24-hfi,
    author = “Narayan, Shravan and Garfinkel, Tal and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Rudek, Joey and Moghimi, Daniel and Johnson, Evan and Fallin, Chris and Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Anjo and LeMay, Michael and Sahita, Ravi and Tullsen, Dean and Stefan, Deian”,
    title = “Hardware-Assisted Fault Isolation: Going Beyond the Limits of Software-Based Sandboxing”,
    booktitle = “IEEE Micro”,
    volume = “44”,
    number = “04”,
    year = “2024”,
    Month = “July”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/hfi_toppicks24.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{asplos23-hfi,
    author = “Narayan, Shravan and Garfinkel, Tal and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Rudek, Joey and Moghimi, Daniel and Johnson, Evan and Fallin, Chris and Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Anjo and LeMay, Michael and Sahita, Ravi and Tullsen, Dean and Stefan, Deian”,
    title = “Going beyond the Limits of SFI: Flexible and Secure Hardware-assisted In-process Isolation with HFI”,
    booktitle = “International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems”,
    year = “2023”,
    Month = “March”,
    series = “ASPLOS”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/hfi_asplos23.pdf”,
    awards = {  Distinguished Paper Award!    IEEE Micro Top Pick!    Honerable Mention Intel Hardware Security Award! }
}

    

       
@INPROCEEDINGS{halfnhalf,
    author = “Yavarzadeh, Hosein and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Narayan, Shravan and Stefan, Deian and Tullsen, Dean”,
    booktitle = “2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy”,
    title = “Half\&Half: Demystifying Intel’s Directional Branch Predictors for Fast, Secure Partitioned Execution”,
    year = “2023”,
    month = “May”,
    series = “S\&P”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/halfandhalf_sp23.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{usenix23-nvleak,
    author = “Wang, Zixuan and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Moghimi, Daniel and Swanson, Steven and Tullsen, Dean and Zhao, Jishen”,
    title = “NVLeak: Off-Chip Side-Channel Attacks via Non-Volatile Memory Systems”,
    booktitle = “32nd {USENIX} Security Symposium”,
    year = “2023”,
    month = “August”,
    series = “USENIX Security”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/nvleak-usenix23.pdf”,
    artifact = “https://github.com/thenetadmin/nvleak”
}

    

       
@ARTICLE{9716090,
    author = “Taram, Mohammadkazem and Venkat, Ashish and Tullsen, Dean”,
    booktitle = “IEEE Design \& Test”,
    title = “Mitigating Speculative Execution Attacks via Context-Sensitive Fencing”,
    year = “2022”,
    volume = “39”,
    number = “4”,
    month = “Feb”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/csf_dt.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{usenix22-secsmt,
    author = “Taram, Mohammadkazem and Ren, Xida and Venkat, Ashish and Tullsen, Dean”,
    title = “SecSMT: Securing {SMT} Processors against Contention-Based Covert Channels”,
    booktitle = “31st {USENIX} Security Symposium”,
    year = “2022”,
    month = “August”,
    series = “USENIX Security”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/secsmt_usenix22_extended.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{www2021-cloak,
    author = “Mireshghallah, Fatemehsadat and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Jalali, Ali and Elthakeb, Ahmed Taha and Tullsen, Dean and Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi”,
    title = “Not All Features Are Equal: Discovering Essential Features for Preserving Prediction Privacy”,
    booktitle = “Proceedings of The Web Conference”,
    Month = “April”,
    year = “2021”,
    series = “WWW”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/cloak_www21.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{isca21-uop,
    author = “Ren, Xida and Moody, Logan and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Jordan, Matthew and Tullsen, Dean M. and Venkat, Ashish”,
    title = “I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches”,
    booktitle = “Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 48th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture”,
    Month = “June”,
    year = “2021”,
    series = “ISCA”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/uop_isca21.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{asplos20-shredder,
    author = “Mireshghallah, Fatemehsadat and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Ramrakhyani, Prakash and Jalali, Ali and Tullsen, Dean and Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi”,
    title = “Shredder: Learning Noise Distributions to Protect Inference Privacy”,
    year = “2020”,
    month = “March”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/shredder_asplos20.pdf”,
    booktitle = “Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems”,
    series = “ASPLOS”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{isca20-chasing,
    author = “Taram, Mohammadkazem and Venkat, Ashish and Tullsen, Dean”,
    title = “Packet Chasing: Spying on Network Packets over a Cache Side-Channel”,
    year = “2020”,
    month = “May”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/packet_chasing_isca20.pdf”,
    booktitle = “Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 47th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture”,
    series = “ISCA”
}

    

       
@misc{mireshghallah2020privacy,
    author = “Mireshghallah, Fatemehsadat and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Vepakomma, Praneeth and Singh, Abhishek and Raskar, Ramesh and Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi”,
    title = “Privacy in Deep Learning: A Survey”,
    year = “2020”,
    month = “Nov”,
    booktitle = “arXiv”,
    eprint = “2004.12254”,
    archivePrefix = “arXiv”,
    primaryClass = “cs.LG”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/survey_arxiv20.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{csd_gomactech,
    author = “Taram, Mohammadkazem and Tullsen, Dean and Venkat, Ashish and Sayadi, Hossein and Wang, Han and Manoj, Sai and Homayoun, Houman”,
    title = “Fast and efficient deployment of security defenses via context sensitive decoding”,
    year = “2019”,
    month = “March”,
    booktitle = “Proceedings of the 44th Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/csd_gomactech19.pdf”
}

    

       
@ARTICLE{csd_toppicks19,
    author = “Taram, Mohammadkazem and Venkat, Ashish and Tullsen, Dean”,
    booktitle = “IEEE Micro”,
    title = “Context-Sensitive Decoding: On-Demand Microcode Customization for Security and Energy Management”,
    year = “2019”,
    month = “April”,
    volume = “39”,
    number = “3”,
    pages = “75-83”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/csd_toppicks19.pdf”
}

    

       
@inproceedings{asplos19-csf,
    author = “Taram, Mohammadkazem and Venkat, Ashish and Tullsen, Dean”,
    title = “Context-Sensitive Fencing: Securing Speculative Execution via Microcode Customization”,
    year = “2019”,
    month = “April”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/csf_asplos19.pdf”,
    booktitle = “Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems”,
    series = “ASPLOS”,
    awards = {  Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security – selected from architecture/security/VLSI design conferences held between 2014-2019! }
}

    

       
@inproceedings{isca18-csd,
    author = “Taram, Mohammadkazem and Venkat, Ashish and Tullsen, Dean”,
    title = “Mobilizing the Micro-Ops: Exploiting Context Sensitive Decoding for Security and Energy Efficiency”,
    year = “2018”,
    month = “June”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/csd_isca18.pdf”,
    booktitle = “Proceedings of the 45th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture”,
    series = “ISCA”,
    awards = {  IEEE Micro Top Pick! }
}

    

       
@article{taco16-wcet,
    author = “Kafshdooz, Morteza Mohajjel and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Assadi, Sepehr and Ejlali, Alireza”,
    title = “A Compile-Time Optimization Method for WCET Reduction in Real-Time Embedded Systems through Block Formation”,
    year = “2016”,
    month = “January”,
    volume = “12”,
    number = “4”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/wcet_taco.pdf”,
    booktitle = “ACM Transaction on Architecture and Code Optimization”,
    series = “TACO”
}

    

       
@INPROCEEDINGS{nocs16-toot,
    author = “Farrokhbakht, Hossein and Taram, Mohammadkazem and Khaleghi, Behnam and Hessabi, Shaahin.”,
    title = “TooT: an efficient and scalable power-gating method for NoC routers”,
    booktitle = “Tenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip”,
    year = “2016”,
    month = “August”,
    series = “NOCS”,
    url = “https://mktrm.github.io/files/toot_nocs16.pdf”
}