Publications
2024 Link to heading
WhisperFuzz: White-Box Fuzzing for Detecting and Locating Timing Vulnerabilities in Processors Link to heading
Pallavi Borkar, Chen Chen, Mohamadreza Rostami, Nikhilesh Singh, Rahul Kande, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Chester Rebeiro, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
USENIX Security Symposium, 2024 (accepted) (Prev. year acceptance rate: 29%)
(Security) Assertions by Large Language Models Link to heading
Rahul Kande, Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Shailja Thakur, Ramesh Karri, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024 (accepted)
Fuzzerfly Effect: Hardware Fuzzing for Memory Safety Link to heading
Mohamadreza Rostami, Chen Chen, Rahul Kande, Huimin Li, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
IEEE Security & Privacy Special Issue on Memory Safety, 2024 (accepted)
Lost and Found in Speculation: Hybrid Speculative Vulnerability Detection Link to heading
Mohamadreza Rostami, Shaza Zeitouni, Rahul Kande, Chen Chen, Pouya Mahmoody, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
***Design Automation Conference, 2024 (accepted) ***
MABFuzz: Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms for Fuzzing Processors Link to heading
Vasudev Gohil, Rahul Kande, Chen Chen, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) 2024 (accepted)
Beyond Random Inputs: A Novel ML-Based Hardware Fuzzing Link to heading
Mohamadreza Rostami, Marco Chilese, Shaza Zeitouni, Rahul Kande, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) 2024 (accepted)
2023 Link to heading
PSOFuzz: Fuzzing Processors with Particle Swarm Optimization Link to heading
Chen Chen, Vasudev Gohil, Rahul Kande, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2023
HyPFuzz: Formal-Assisted Processor Fuzzing Link to heading
Chen Chen, Rahul Kande, Nathan Nguyen, Flemming Anderson, Aakash Tyagi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
USENIX Security Symposium 2023 (Acceptance rate: 29%)
2022 Link to heading
TheHuzz: Instruction Fuzzing of Processors Using Golden-Reference Models for Finding Software-Exploitable Vulnerabilities Link to heading
Rahul Kande, Addison Crump, Garrett Persyn, Patrick Jauernig, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Aakash Tyagi, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
USENIX Security Symposium 2022 (Acceptance rate: 18%)
Trusting the Trust Anchor: Towards Detecting Cross-Layer Vulnerabilities with Hardware Fuzzing Link to heading
Chen Chen, Rahul Kande, Pouya Mahmoody, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022
2021 Link to heading
Organizing The World’s Largest Hardware Security Competition: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned Link to heading
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, and Rahul Kande
Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2021