Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida, advised by Dr. Fan Yao, and was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Architecture and Systems Research (CASR) Lab.
My research interests are in computer architecture and hardware security, with a focus on microarchitectural and side-channel security, the security of emerging memory and storage systems, secure hardware for machine learning, and trusted execution environments. My work has been published in top-tier computer architecture and systems security conferences and journals such as ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, and IEEE TCAD; my IEEE S&P 2022 work was selected for the Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security.
- Computer architecture and hardware security
- Microarchitectural side channel attacks & defenses
- Hardware/software infrastructure for secure and privacy-preserving AI/ML
- Secure processor architectures & trusted execution
- Security of emerging memory & storage
- paperBeKnight+ is accepted in IEEE TCAD. (June 2026)
- serviceServing as a Program Committee member for HPCA ’27. (2026)
- serviceServing as a Program Committee member for HASP ’26. (2026)
- serviceServing on the Artifact Evaluation Committee of ASPLOS ’26. (2025)
- serviceServing as a Program Committee member for GLSVLSI ’25. (2025)
- talkGave an invited talk at the University of Central Florida. (March 2025)
- paperPhantom is accepted in USENIX Security ’25. (Jan. 2025)
- talkPresented IvLeague at New England Hardware Security Day (NEHSD ’25). (Jan. 2025)
- talkGave a talk at the MICRO 2024 PhD Forum. (Nov. 2024)
- serviceServing on the Artifact Evaluation Committee of ASPLOS ’25. (2024)
- awardDeepSteal is selected for Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security. (2024)
- paperIvLeague is accepted in MICRO ’24. (July 2024)
- otherSuccessfully defended my PhD dissertation. (July 2024)
- paperMetaLeak is accepted in ISCA ’24. (March 2024)
- paperPowSpectre is accepted in AsiaCCS ’24. (March 2024)
- paperDeepVenom is accepted in IEEE S&P ’24. (March 2024)
- serviceServed as Publicity Chair for IEEE ICCD 2023. (2023)
- paperBeKnight is accepted in ICCAD ’23. (July 2023)
- paperWork on PCM side channels is accepted in IEEE Micro. (Jan. 2023)
- paperD-Shield is accepted in HPCA ’23. (Oct. 2022)
- talkGave an invited talk at the University of Delaware. (2022)
- paperDeepSteal is accepted in IEEE S&P ’22. (March 2022)
- paperBranchSpectre is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computers. (Oct. 2021)
- serviceServed on the Artifact Evaluation Committee for IEEE IISWC 2021. (2021)
- paperR-SAW is accepted in SEED ’21. (Sept. 2021)
- paperNMT-Stroke is accepted in SEED ’21. (Sept. 2021)
- paperLADDER is accepted in MICRO ’21. (July 2021)
- paperBranchSpec is accepted in ICCD ’20. (Aug. 2020)