HOST 2025 | IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust

IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)

May 4-7, 2026

Washington DC, USA

First Place
Connecting the Dots: Privacy Leakage via Write-Access Patterns to the Main Memory
- Tara John, Syed Kamran Haider, Hamza Omar and Marten van Dijk - University of Connecticut, USA
Second Place
LWE-Based Lossless Computational Fuzzy Extractor for the IoT
- Christopher Huth - Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
  Daniela Becker - Robert Bosch LLC, USA
  Jorge Guajardo - Robert Bosch LLC, USA
  Paul Duplys - Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
  Tim Günesyu - University of Bremen & DFKI
Third Place
Threshold Voltage Defined Multi-Input Complex Gates
- Asmit De and Swaroop Ghosh - Pennsylvania State University, USA
Judges
- Justin Cohen - DARPA
  Chintan Patel - University of Maryland Baltimore County
  Ujjwal Guin - Auburn University
  Ethan Cannon - Boeing

First Place
Demo # 21 – FAME: Fault Aware Microprocessor Extension Demonstrator
- Chinmay Deshpande, Marjan Ghodrati, Bilgiday Yuce, Abhishek Bendre – Virginia Tech
  Conor Patrick, Nahid Farhady Ghalaty, Leyla Nazhandali, Patrick Schaumont – Virginia Tech
Tied for Second Place
Demo # 1 – Supply Chain and IoT PUF-based Authentication
- Wenjie Che, Goutham Pocklassery, Venkata K. Kajuluri and Jim Plusquellic – University of New Mexico
  Fareena Saqib – Florida Institute of Technology
Demo # 7 – Leveraging Electromagnetic Emanations for IoT Security
- Nader Sehatbakhsh, Robert Callan, Monjur Alam, Milos Prvulovic and Alenka Zajic – Georgia Institute of Technology
Judges
- Vivek De - Intel
  Kevin Gotze - QualComm
  Yousef Iskander - Cisco
  Mario Larouche - Mentor Graphics
  Sandip Ray - NXP
  David Benson - Northrop Grumman Corp.
  Calvin Chan - Sandia National Laboratories

Best Paper
AppSAT: Approximately Deobfuscating Integrated Circuits
- Kaveh Shamsi - University of Central Florida, USA
  Meng Li - University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Travis Meade - University of Central Florida, USA
  Zheng Zhao - University of Texas at Austin, USA
  David Z. Pan - University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Yier Jin - University of Central Florida, USA
Best Student Paper
High Efficiency Power Side-Channel Attack Immunity using Noise Injection in Attenuated Signature Domain
- Debayan Das – Purdue University, USA
  Shovan Maity – Purdue University, USA
  Saad Bin Nasir – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  Santosh Ghosh – Intel Labs, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
  Arijit Raychowdhury – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  Shreyas Sen – Purdue University, USA
Judges
- Kevin Kornegay - Morgan State University
  Vivian Kammler - Sandia National Laboratories
  Brian Rosenberg - Qualcomm

First Place
A PUF-based Secure Communication Protocol for IoT
- Urbi Chatterjee – Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Tied for Second Place
A wearable carotid ultrasound assembly for health care and biometric security
- Sumaiya Shomaji – University of Florida
Circuit Recognition with Deep Learning
- Yu-Yun Dai – University of California, Berkeley