Sheriff: Arresting the Confused Deputy Undermining Ultra-low SWaP Device Trusted Execution Environments. Prakhar Sah and Matthew Hicks. ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS). June 2026.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2240744.

Signal Breaker: Fuzzing Digital Signal Processors. Cameron Garcia and Matthew Hicks. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). March 2026.

Sponsor: TRMC, DARPA, and National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2240744.

Retain The Date: Detecting Recycled Chips in the Supply Chain through SRAM’s Data Retention Behavior. Jubayer Mahmod and Matthew Hicks. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). December 2025.

Sponsor: DARPA YFA and National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2046589.

PhasePrint: Exposing Cloud FPGA Fingerprints by Inducing Timing Faults at Runtime. Jubayer Mahmod and Matthew Hicks. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). March 2025.

Sponsor: DARPA YFA and National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2046589.

ClosureX: Compiler Support for Correct Persistent Fuzzing. Rishi Ranjan, Ian Patterson, and Matthew Hicks. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). March2025.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2046589.

A Software Caching Runtime for Embedded NVRAM Systems. Harrison Williams and Matthew Hicks. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). March 2025.

Sponsor: DARPA OPS-5G and National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2240744.

Prakhar Sah and Matthew Hicks, "RIPencapsulation: Defeating IP Encapsulation on TI MSP Devices", USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), August 2024.

A Difference World: High-performance, NVM-invariant, Software-only Intermittent Computation. Harrison Williams, Saim Ahmad, and Matthew Hicks. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). July 2024.

Sponsor: DARPA OPS-5G and National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2240744.

Jubayer Mahmod and Matthew Hicks, "SRAM Imprinting for System Protection and Differentiation", ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), July 2024.

Jubayer Mahmod and Matthew Hicks, "UnTrustZone: Systematic Accelerated Aging to Expose On-chip Secrets", IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2024.

Harrison Williams and Matthew Hicks, "Energy-adaptive Buffering for Efficient, Responsive, and Persistent Batteryless Systems", International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2024.

Leo Stone, Rishi Ranjan, Stefan Nagy, and Matthew Hicks, "No Linux, No Problem: Fast and Stateful Windows Binary Fuzzing via Target-embedded Snapshotting", USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2023.

Salman Ahmed, Hans Liljestrand, Hani Jamjoom, Matthew Hicks, N. Asokan, and Daphne Yao, "Not All Data are Created Equal: Data and Pointer Prioritization for Scalable Protection Against Data-Oriented Attacks", USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2023.

Timothy Trippel, Kang G. Shin, Kevin B. Bush, and Matthew Hicks, "T-TER: Defeating A2 Trojans with Targeted Tamper-Evident Routing", ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), July 2023.

Fariborz Lohrabi Pour, Harrison Williams, Matthew Hicks, and Dong Sam Ha, "Practical Considerations of Energy Harvesting Source in Minimization of Age of Information with Updating Erasures", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2023.

Prashast Srivastava, Stefan Nagy, Matthew Hicks, Antonio Bianchi, and Mathias Payer, "One Fuzz Doesn’t Fit All: Optimizing Directed Fuzzing via Target-tailored Program State Restriction", Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). December 2022.

Xin Wang, Daulet Talapkaliyev, Matthew Hicks, and Xun Jian, "Self-Reinforcing Memoization for Cryptography Calculations In Secure Memory Systems", International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2022.

Timothy Trippel, Kang G. Shin, Alex Chernyakhovsky, Garret Kelly, Dominic Rizzo, and Matthew Hicks, "Fuzzing Hardware Like Software", USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2022.

Jubayer Mahmod and Matthew Hicks, "Invisible Bits: Hiding Secret Messages in SRAM’s Analog Domain", International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2022.

Jubayer Mahmod and Matthew Hicks, "SRAM Has No Chill: Exploiting Power Domain Separation to Steal On-chip Secrets", International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2022.