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My main research interest is in building custom architectures and accelerators to eliminate security vulnerabilities.

Publications

2022

  • "Chameleon Cache: Approximating Fully Associative Caches with Random Replacement to Prevent Contention-Based Cache Attacks" Thomas Unterluggauer, Austin Harris, Scott Constable, Fangfei Liu, Carlos Rozas in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design(SEED). Abstract  pdf

2021

  • "Morpheus II: A RISC-V Security Extension for Protecting Vulnerable Software and Hardware" Austin Harris, Tarunesh Verma, Shijia Wei, Alex Kisil, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Valeria Bertacco, Baris Kasikci, Mohit Tiwari, Todd Austin,in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust(HOST). Abstract  pdf
  • "Software-driven Security Attacks: From Vulnerability Sources to Durable Hardware Defenses" Lauren Biernacki, Mark Gallagher, Zhixing Xu, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Austin Harris, Shijia Wei, Mohit Tiwari, Baris Kasikci, Sharad Malik, Todd Austin, in Proceedings of the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems(JETC). Abstract  pdf

2019

  • "Cyclone: Detecting Contention-Based Cache Information Leaks Through Cyclic Interference" Austin Harris, Shijia Wei, Prateek Sahu, Pranav Kumar, Mohit Tiwari, Todd Austin, in Proceedings of the 52nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Abstract  pdf
  • "Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture Based on Ensembles of Moving Target Defenses with Churn" Mark Gallagher, Lauren Biernacki, Shibo Chen, Zelalem Birhanu Aweke, Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Austin Harris, Zhixing Xu, Baris Kasikci, Valeria Bertacco, Sharad Malik, Mohit Tiwari, Todd Austin, in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Abstract  pdf

2015

  • "GhostRider: A Hardware-Software System for Memory Trace Oblivious Computation." Chang Liu, Austin Harris, Martin Maas, Michael Hicks, Mohit Tiwari, Elaine Shi, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Best Paper Award. Abstract  pdf

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I am currently a graduate student working on a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in the SPARK Research Lab. I am supervised by Professor Mohit Tiwari.

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