Sai Manoj P D

Assistant Professor

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News & Publications

2024

  • [04/24] Two papers are accepted for presentation at GLSVLSI 2024. Congrats, Raghul and Sreenitha.
  • [02/24] Dr. Sai will be serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL).
  • [01/24] Our collaborative proposal with UVA on securing supplychain has been funded by VA CommonWealth Cyber Initiative (CCI).
  • 2023

  • [11/23] One paper is accepted for presentation at 2024 ISQED. Congrats, Sanket!
  • [10/23] One paper is accepted for presentation at 2024 ASP-DAC Conference. Congrats, Sreenitha!
  • [10/23] Two papers are accepted for presentation at 2024 VLSID Symposium. Congrats, Sathwika and Sreenitha!
  • [08/23] Venkat Nitin Patnala has joined our HArt Group. Welcome, Nitin!
  • [07/23] Rakib has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats, Rakib!
  • [02/23] Our collaborative work on RFET-based ML acceleration has been accepted for publication at ISCAS 2024. Congrats, Raghul!
  • [01/23] Our book on machine learning has been published by Springer. A great machine learning practical implementation book for Computer Scientists and Engineers.
  • 2022

  • [11/22] Congratulations to Sanket on acceptance of his work on federated learning for heterogeneous devices in DATE 2023 conference with best paper nomination.
  • [07/22] Our collaborative proposal on developing novel architectures for machine learning acceleration with diverse workloads is funded by NSF.
  • [07/22] Congratulations to Abhijitt on passing his PhD defense. He joined AMD-Xilinx as Hardware-Software Co-design Engineer.
  • [03/22] Congratulations to Sanket and Abhijitt on acceptance of their joint work on malware epidemic confinement in ICCD 2022 conference.
  • [05/22] Our collaborative proposal on developing novel adversarial learning defense against invasive reverse engineering is funded by NSF.
  • [03/22] Congratulations to Sathwika on acceptance of her work on In-Memory computing architecture with online learning capabilities in EuroMicro DSD 2022 conference.
  • [03/22] Congratulations to Sanket on acceptance of his work on federated learning-inspired malware detection in GLSVLSI 2022 conference.
  • [03/22] Congratulations to Sreenitha on acceptance of her work on few-shot learning for emerging malware detection in GLSVLSI 2022 conference.
  • [02/22] Congratulations to Sreenitha and Sanket on acceptance of their collaborative work on one-shot learning for autonomous driving in MetroCAD 2022 conference.
  • 2021

  • [11/21] HART lab has received $50K funding from CCI for developing energy-preserving Next Generation Crypography protocols.
  • [11/21] Congratulations to Abhijitt on acceptance of his side-channel work in DATE 2022 conference.
  • [11/21] Congratulations to Sathwika, Abhijitt, Pavlos, and Rakib for being selected to Young Research Fellow awards at DAC'22.
  • [10/21] HART lab has received $125K funding from CCI for autonomous driving security project.
  • [07/21] Dr. Sai will serve on TPC of HPCA 2022.
  • [07/21] Our work on power side-channel attacks got accepted in IEEE SoCC Conference 2021. Congrats Abhijitt!
  • [06/21] HArt-lab has received funding from Virginia CCI to perform research on node-level malware detection.
  • [03/21] Our PIM work for energy-efficient MAC operations in deep CNNs is accepted for publication in IEEE TPDS. Congrats Sathwika.
  • [03/21] Defense against side-channel attacks work is accepted for publication in IEEE TCAD. Congrats Abhijitt.
  • [02/21] Two papers on hardware security are accepted in DAC 2021. Congrats Gaurav and Sanket!
  • [01/21] Three papers are accepted in ISCAS 2021. Congrats Rakib, and Abhijitt.
  • [01/21] Dr. Sai will serve on TPC of GLSVLSI 2021.

    2020

    • [12/20] Our collaborative paper on on-chip wireless NoC security is nominated for best paper award in AsianHOST 2020 conference. Congrats Meraj!
    • [11/20] Ms. Sreenitha Kasarapu will be joining HART lab as a PhD student in Spring'21!
    • [11/20] Two papers are accepted in DATE 2021. Congratulations Rakib and Abhijitt!
    • [10/20] Our work on wireless NoC security was nominated for best paper award at IGSC'20. Congratulations Meraj!
    • [10/20] Two papers are accepted in AsianHost 2020. Congratulations Abhijitt and Meraj!
    • [09/20] HArt Lab is grateful to receive funding from DARPA for Hardware Trojan Detection.
    • [08/20] Two papers are accepted in IGSC 2020.
    • [08/20] Work on programmable PIM architecture is published in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Congratulations Sathwika.
    • [08/20] Dr. Sai's work on IoT malware detection and confinement with cognitive techniques is accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
    • [08/20] Mr. Pavlos Zouridakis has joined the group in Fall 2020 as PhD student.
    • [07/20] Two papers are accepted for presentation in GLSVLSI 2020 special session. Congratulations Sathwika.
    • [07/20] HArt lab has received funding from NSF to carryout research on COVID-19 as a part of NSF-RAPID program.
    • [06/20] Dr. Sai is guest editing a special issue on Benchmarking Machine Learning Systems and Applications in IEEE Design and Test Magazine.
    • [06/20] Dr. Sai will be serving on TPC (AI/ML System Design track) of ASP-DAC 2021.
    • [03/20] Two papers are accepted for presentation in ISQED 2020. Congratulations Abhijitt and Rakib.
    • [02/20] Training-agnostic malware detection with federated learning work is accepted for publication in ATINER 2020. Congratulations Sanket.
    • [01/20] Abhishek Vashisht's paper on in-door localization won best-paper award at ICCE 2020. Congratulations!
    • [01/20] Ms. Sathwika Bavikadi has joined the group in Spring 2020 as PhD student.

    2019

    • Zhiqian Chen's work on predicting de-obfuscation time through graph analytics is accepted for publication in DATE 2020 conference. Congratulations!
    • Dr. Sai will be serving on TPC (AI/ML System Design track) of DAC 2020.
    • Congratulations to Xiaojie Guo for her work on graph analytics awarded best paper award in ICDM 2019 (95 papers accepted out of 1046 papers).
    • Dr. Sai will be chairing "Machine learning for IoT" session in ESWEEK 2019 conference.
    • Gaurav Kohle's work on LUT obfuscation is nominated for best paper award in ICCAD 2019. Congratulations!
    • Computer vision-based approach for malware detection is accepted for publication in ICMLA 2019. Congratulations Sanket.
    • Congratulations to Sanket on the acceptance of stealthy malware detection work in ICTAI 2019.
    • Three papers from the group are accepted for work-in-progress in ESWEEK 2019.
    • Dr. Sai will be serving on TPC of VLSID 2020.
    • Congratulations Xiaojie on the acceptance of graph-learning-based malware epidemics in ICDM 2019.
    • HaRt lab has recruited three new Ph.D. students for Fall 2019.
    • Dr. Sai will be serving on TPC of CASES 2019.
    • Dr. Sai will be joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, George Mason University as a tenure-track assistant professor.
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