@inproceedings{yavarzadeh2024pathfinder,
  title={Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor},
  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},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 3},
  pages={770--784},
  year={2024}
}
      

@inproceedings {usenix23-nvleak,
title = {NVLeak: Off-Chip Side-Channel Attacks via Non-Volatile Memory Systems},
author={ Zixuan Wang and Mohammadkazem Taram and Daniel Moghimi and Steven Swanson and Dean Tullsen and Jishen Zhao},
booktitle = {32nd {USENIX} Security Symposium ({USENIX} Security 23)},
year = {2023}
}
      

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@inproceedings {usenix22-secsmt,
title = {SecSMT: Securing {SMT} Processors against Contention-Based Covert Channels},
author={ Mohammadkazem Taram and Xida Ren  and Ashish Venkat and Dean Tullsen},
booktitle = {31st {USENIX} Security Symposium ({USENIX} Security 22)},
year = {2022},
address = {Boston, MA},
month = aug,
}
      

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@inproceedings{isca21-uop, 
title={I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches}, 
author={Xida Ren and Logan Moody and Mohammadkazem Taram and  Matthew Jordan and Dean M. Tullsen and Ashish Venkat}, 
booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 48th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
Month = {June},
year={2021}  , 
series = {ISCA '21}
}
      

@inproceedings{www2021-cloak, 
title={Not All Features Are Equal: Discovering Essential Features for Preserving Prediction Privacy}, 
author={Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah and Mohammadkazem Taram and Ali Jalali and Ahmed Taha Elthakeb and Dean Tullsen and Hadi Esmaeilzadeh}, 
booktitle={Proceedings of The Web Conference},
Month = {April},
year={2021}  , 
series = {WWW '21}
}
      

@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},
isbn = {9781728146614},
publisher = {IEEE Press},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA45697.2020.00065},
abstract = {This paper presents Packet Chasing, an attack on the network that does not require access to the network, and works regardless of the privilege level of the process receiving the packets. A spy process can easily probe and discover the exact cache location of each buffer used by the network driver. Even more useful, it can discover the exact sequence in which those buffers are used to receive packets. This then enables packet frequency and packet sizes to be monitored through cache side channels. This allows both covert channels between a sender and a remote spy with no access to the network, as well as direct attacks that can identify, among other things, the web page access patterns of a victim on the network. In addition to identifying the potential attack, this work proposes a software-based short-term mitigation as well as a light-weight, adaptive, cache partitioning mitigation that blocks the interference of I/O and CPU requests in the last-level cache.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 47th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
pages = {721–734},
numpages = {14},
series = {ISCA '20}
}
      

@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},
isbn = {9781450371025},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3373376.3378522},
doi = {10.1145/3373376.3378522},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems},
pages = {3–18},
numpages = {16},
keywords = {neural networks, noise, edge computing, privacy, inference, cloud computing, deep learning},
location = {Lausanne, Switzerland},
series = {ASPLOS '20}
}
      

@misc{mireshghallah2020privacy,
      title={Privacy in Deep Learning: A Survey}, 
      author={Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah and Mohammadkazem Taram and Praneeth Vepakomma and Abhishek Singh and Ramesh Raskar and Hadi Esmaeilzadeh},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2004.12254},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG}
}
      

@inproceedings{asplos19-csf,
    author = {Taram, Mohammadkazem and Venkat, Ashish and Tullsen, Dean},
    title = {Context-Sensitive Fencing: Securing Speculative Execution via Microcode Customization},
    year = {2019},
    isbn = {9781450362405},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3297858.3304060},
    doi = {10.1145/3297858.3304060},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems},
    pages = {395–410},
    numpages = {16},
    keywords = {taint tracking, spectre, secure architectures, speculative execution, side-channel attacks, microcode},
    location = {Providence, RI, USA},
    series = {ASPLOS '19}
}

@ARTICLE{csd_toppicks19,
  author={M. {Taram} and A. {Venkat} and D. M. {Tullsen}},
  journal={IEEE Micro}, 
  title={Context-Sensitive Decoding: On-Demand Microcode Customization for Security and Energy Management}, 
  year={2019},
  volume={39},
  number={3},
  pages={75-83},
  doi={10.1109/MM.2019.2910507}}
      

@inproceedings{csd_gomactech,
  title={Fast and efficient deployment of security defenses via context sensitive decoding},
  author={Taram, Mohammadkazem and Tullsen, Dean and Venkat, Ashish and Sayadi, Hossein and Wang, Han and Manoj, Sai and Homayoun, Houman},
  year={2019},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference }, 
}
      

@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},
isbn = {9781538659847},
publisher = {IEEE Press},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.2018.00058},
doi = {10.1109/ISCA.2018.00058},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 45th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
pages = {624–637},
numpages = {14},
keywords = {security, power gating, side channel, microcode},
location = {Los Angeles, California},
series = {ISCA '18}
}
      

@INPROCEEDINGS{nocs16-toot,
  title={TooT: an efficient and scalable power-gating method for NoC routers},
  author={Hossein Farrokhbakht and Mohammadkazem Taram and Behnam Khaleghi and Shaahin. Hessabi},
  journal={2016 Tenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip},
  year={2016},
  pages={1-8},
  doi={10.1109/NOCS.2016.7579326},
  series = {NOCS '16} 
}
      

@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},
    issue_date = {January 2016},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    volume = {12},
    number = {4},
    issn = {1544-3566},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2845083},
    doi = {10.1145/2845083},
    journal = {ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim.},
    month = jan,
    articleno = {66},
    numpages = {25},
    keywords = {WCET, Compile-time optimization, hyperblock}
}