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Recent News/ Announcements

  • We are hiring!

  • October 2025

    • New funding was received by our lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northeastern University, and Synopsys Inc. The project aims to secure AI Chips and Intelligent Design Automation for Trusted Hardware, helping to bridge the gap from lab to fab. Thank you to the Office of the Massachusetts Governor, Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) & Massachusetts Technology Collaborative for supporting our innovation journey through the SCALE Capital Program.

  • September 2025

  • June 2025​

  • ​January 2025​​​

    • Invited talk “SNARKs for Private AI Monitoring,” at the FlexHEG Builder Event in FAR.Labs (a collaborative AI safety research hub based in University of California, Berkeley)​

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Previous Synergetic Activities 

  • Invited talk: “Should We Put Our Trust in the Implementation of MPC?” at the NIST Crypto Reading Club (https://csrc.nist.gov/presentations/2024/crclub-2024-10-02), 2024.  

  • Invited talk: “Boolean Analysis for Security Assessment of Physically Unclonable Functions” at the Women In Circuits Workshop on Hardware Security affiliated with IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (https://www.esserc2024.org/w12-hardware-security), 2024.

  • Presentation: “FaultyGarble: Fault Attack on Secure Multiparty Neural Network Inference” at the Workshop on Fault Detection and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC), 2024.

  • Invited talk: “AI for Side-channel Analysis” at the Cisco Offensive Security Summit, 2024.

  • Presentation: “Time is money, friend! Timing side-channel attack against garbled circuit constructions” at the 22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2024.

  • Invited lecture: “Classic Rewind and Fast-forward to PQC: Lessons Learned from AI-assisted SCA” at DISTANT Training School affiliated with the annual Summer School on Real-world Crypto and Privacy (https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2024/DISTANT.html) , 2024. 

  • Panelist on “WPI’s Beyond These Towers: Data Science and AI in Our Lives (https://www.wpi.edu/news/calendar/events/beyond-these-towers-data-science-and-ai-our-lives), 2023.

  • Presentation: “Information Theory-based Evolution of Neural Networks for Side-channel Analysis” at the annual Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2023.

  • Panelist on “Crypto meets AI: AI and cryptanalysis” at GHTC (https://ghtcworkshop.tii.ae/2023/), affiliated event of the Crypto conference, 2023.

  • Invited talk: “Side-Channel Protected NNs Through Secure and Private Function Evaluation” at the Workshop on Security for Custom Computing Machines (SCCM, https://sccm-workshop.github.io), 2023.

  • Invited lecture: “From (Less Careful) Standardization of Intellectual Property Protection to Secure and Private Electronic Design Automation” at the annual Summer School on Real-world Crypto and Privacy (https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2023/), 2023.

  • Panelist on “WPI’s Beyond These Towers: Data Science and AI in Our Lives (https://www.wpi.edu/news/calendar/events/beyond-these-towers-data-science-and-ai-our-lives), 2023.

  • Presentation: “Information Theory-based Evolution of Neural Networks for Side-channel Analysis” at the annual Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2023.

  • Panelist on “Crypto meets AI: AI and cryptanalysis” at GHTC (https://ghtcworkshop.tii.ae/2023/), affiliated event of the Crypto conference, 2023.

  • Invited talk: “Side-Channel Protected NNs Through Secure and Private Function Evaluation” at the Workshop on Security for Custom Computing Machines (SCCM, https://sccm-workshop.github.io), 2023.

  • Invited lecture: “From (Less Careful) Standardization of Intellectual Property Protection to Secure and Private Electronic Design Automation” at the annual Summer School on Real-world Crypto and Privacy (https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2023/), 2023.

  • Invited talk: “Neural Networks: predators and prey,” Dagstuhl Seminar 22412-Intelligent Security: Is AI for Cybersecurity a Blessing or a Curse, October 9-14, 2022, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • Invited talk: “Neural Networks: predators and prey,” WPI’s Midsummer Workshop on Hardware Security, August 28-9, 2022, Worcester, USA.

  • Invited talk: “Garbled EDA: Privacy-Preserving Electronic Design Automation,” June 7, 2022, MITRE principal locations, Bedford, Massachusetts.

  • Keynote speech: “Machine Learning for Hardware Security: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants,” at Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (AIHWS), June 21, 2021, Kamakura, Japan (Online) https://aihws2021.aisylab.com.

  • Invited talk: “From Cryptography to Property Testing,” Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography (AICrypt), October 16, 2021, Zagreb, Croatia (Online) http://aicrypt.zemris.fer.hr.

  • Invited panel: “Ask Me Anything III: Fatemeh Ganji”, Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2021. 

  • Invited panel: “Women in Science: Challenges, Opportunities, and Motivations,” as part of the Gender-Equality measures in SPP (Priority Program, Nano Security: From Nano-Electronics to Secure Systems).

  • Invited talk “ML for Security of “things” and human beings” at the WPI’s ECE Graduate Seminar.

  • Security of PUFs: Lessons Learned after Two Decades of Research," CHES Tutorial, Atlanta, Georgia, 2019.

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