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Secure and Trustworthy Hardware (SETH) Lab

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

About Us

Our research addresses the security problems in hardware design by developing novel design-automation algorithms and circuit techniques to ensure the trustworthiness of computers with provable security guarantees.  The broad goals of our research are to address the general problem of hardware security more holistically. By empowering hardware with security techniques, our research has been: (i) transferring control over a hardware design back to the fabless chip designers, who had relinquished their control to reduce manufacturing cost by outsourcing;  (ii) ensuring the trustworthiness and security of electronic components; (iii) successfully combating the rogue elements as they intrude into the supply chain; (iv) developing tools and techniques to enforce the security of hardware; (v) exposing the security capabilities of emerging technologies; (vi) detecting and patching security vulnerabilities in System-on-Chips (SoCs).
To this end, we are working on:
i)  Supply-chain security: Logic locking, Split manufacturing and Camouflaging
ii) Security of System-on-Chips: Hardware Fuzzing, Hack@Event, and HardFails

We are recruiting!

PhD positions
Postdoc positions

If you are a Texas A&M student (graduate or undergraduate) and are interested in our research, please reach out to us by sending your CV to jv.rajendran@tamu.edu.

News

  • Hao, Vasudev, and Satwik’s paper on using AI for automatically detecting fault models has been accepted at DAC, 2023!
  • Congratulations to Vasudev, Hao, Satwik for getting their paper accepted at ACM CCS 2022.
  • Congratulations to Aneesh on winning the Michael Powell Graduate Fellowship.
  • Our lab led Hack@SEC at the 2022 USENIX Security Conference.
  • Our lab led Hack@DAC at the 2022 DAC Conference.
  • Rahul got third place in 2022 IEEE HOST Hardware Demonstration on TheHuzz fuzzer.
  • Congratulations to Aneesh for passing his Ph.D. qualifying exam.
  • Jack Letsinger and Brody Jordan joined our lab as new undergraduate students.
  • Congratulations to Georges for passing his M.S. thesis defense.
  • Vasudev, Satwik, and Hao’s paper on using AI for security has been accepted at DAC, 2022.
  • Prof. Rajendran has won the ONR Young Investigator Award, 2022.
  • Rahul and Addison’s paper on hardware fuzzing has been accepted at USENIX Security, 2022.
  • Prof. JV Rajendran received the Ernie Kuh Award.
  • Shankari successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations! Dr. Jayasankaran.
  • Vasudev’s paper on game-theoretic analysis of split manufacturing got accepted at IEEE TIFS.
  • Our lab co-organized Hack@SEC at the 2021 USENIX Security Conference and Hack@CHES competition at the CHES Conference.
  • Prof. JV Rajendran received the Intel Security Academic Leadership Award at the 2021 USENIX Security Conference.
  • Our lab received funding from Intel’s Scalable Assurance Program.
  • Rahul Kande’s paper got accepted in GLSVLSI, 2021.
  • Aneesh Dixit joined our lab as a new Ph.D. student.

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