Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy
Research output

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers in computer architecture and hardware security. ★ marks top-tier venues.

See also my Google Scholar profile.

MICRO'26
DireLeak: Cross-socket Cache Timing Channels Exploiting Memory Directory
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Kunbei Cai, Zhenkai Zhang, Hao Zheng, Fan Yao
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2026
TCAD'26
BeKnight+: Mitigating Information Leakage in Speculatively-updated Branch Predictor
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Zhenkai Zhang, Fan Yao
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026
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USENIX'25
Phantom: Privacy-Preserving Deep Neural Network Model Obfuscation in Heterogeneous TEE and GPU System
Juyang Bai, Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Jingtao Li, Fan Yao, Chaitali Chakrabarti, Deliang Fan
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2025
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MICRO '24
IvLeague: Side Channel-resistant Secure Architectures Using Isolated Domains of Dynamic Integrity Trees
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Fan Yao
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2024
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ISCA'24
MetaLeak: Uncovering Side Channels in Secure Processor Architectures Exploiting Metadata
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Hao Zheng, Fan Yao
IEEE/ACM Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2024
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SP'24
DeepVenom: Persistent DNN Backdoors Exploiting Transient Weight Perturbations in Memories
Kunbei Cai, Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Zhenkai Zhang, Fan Yao
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2024
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ASIACCS '24
PowSpectre: Powering Up Speculation Attacks with TSX-based Replay
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Zhenkai Zhang, Fan Yao
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2024
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HPCA'23
D-Shield: Enabling Processor-side Encryption and Integrity Verification for Secure NVMe Drives
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Myoungsoo Jung, Fan Yao, Amro Awad
IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023
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ICCAD'23
BeKnight: Guarding Against Information Leakage in Speculatively Updated Branch Predictors
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Zhenkai Zhang, Fan Yao
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2023
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IEEE Micro'23
Understanding and Characterizing Side Channels Exploiting Phase-Change Memories
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Rickard Ewetz, Amro Awad, Fan Yao
IEEE Micro, 2023
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SP'22
DeepSteal: Advanced Model Extractions Leveraging Efficient Weight Stealing in Memories
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Fan Yao, Deliang Fan
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2022
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MICRO '22
LADDER: Architecting Content and Location-aware Writes for Crossbar Resistive Memories
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Muhammad Rashedul Haq Rashed, Amro Awad, Rickard Ewetz, Fan Yao
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2022
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TC'21
Leaking Secrets Through Modern Branch Predictors in the Speculative World
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Fan Yao
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2021
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SEED'21
R-SAW: New Side Channels Exploiting Read Asymmetry in MLC Phase Change Memories
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Rickard Ewetz, Amro Awad, Fan Yao
International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED), 2021
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SEED'21
NMT-Stroke: Diverting Neural Machine Translation through Hardware-based Faults
Kunbei Cai, Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Zhenkai Zhang, Fan Yao
International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED), 2021
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ICCD'20
BranchSpec: Information Leakage Attacks Exploiting Speculative Branch Instruction Executions
Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Hang Liu, Fan Yao
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020
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