Michael Moukarzel and Matthew Hicks, "RingRAM: A Unified Hardware Security Primitive for IoT Devices that Gets Better with Age", Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2021.

Stefan Nagy, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, and Matthew Hicks, "Same Coverage, Less Bloat: Accelerating Binary-only Fuzzing with Coverage-preserving Coverage-guided Tracing", ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2021.

Stefan Nagy, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, and Matthew Hicks, "Breaking Through Binaries: Compiler-quality Instrumentation for Better Binary-only Fuzzing", USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2021.

Harrison Williams, Michael Moukarzel, and Matthew Hicks, "Failure Sentinels: Ubiquitous Just-in-time Intermittent Computation via hardware support for continuous, low-cost, fine-grain voltage monitoring",  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2021.

Timothy Trippel, Kang G. Shin, Kevin B. Bush, and Matthew Hicks, "Bomberman: Defining and Defeating Hardware Ticking Timebombs at Design-time", IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2021.

Timothy Trippel, Kang G. Shin, Kevin B. Bush, and Matthew Hicks, "ICAS: an Extensible Framework for Estimating the Susceptibility of IC Layouts to Additive Trojans", IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2020.

Harrison Williams, Xun Jian, and Matthew Hicks, "Forget Failure: Exploiting SRAM Data Remanence for Low-overhead Intermittent Computation",  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2020.

Stefan Nagy and Matthew Hicks, “Full-speed Fuzzing: Reducing Fuzzing Overhead through Coverage-guided Tracing", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2019.

Michael Moukarzel and Matthew Hicks, "Reap What You Store: Side-channel Resilient Computing Through Energy Harvesting", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys), November 2017. 

Evan Chavis, Harrison Davis, Yijun Hou, Matthew Hicks, Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek, Todd Austin, and Valeria Bertacco, "SNIFFER: A High-Accuracy Malware Detector for Enterprise-based Systems", International Verification and Security Workshop, July 2017.

Matthew Hicks, “Clank: Architectural Support for Intermittent Computation”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2017.

Joel Van Der Woude and Matthew Hicks, “Intermittent Computation without Hardware Support or Programmer Intervention”, Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), November 2016.

Kaiyuan Yang, Matthew Hicks, Qing Dong, Todd Austin, and Dennis Sylvester, “A2: Analog Malicious Hardware”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2016.

Distinguished Paper award

Zelalem Birhanu Aweke, Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek, Rui Qiao, Reetuparna Das, Matthew Hicks, Mark Seaborn, Yossi Oren, and Todd Austin, "ANVIL: Software-Based Protection Against Next-Generation Rowhammer Attacks", Proceedings of the Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2016.

Amir Rahmati, Matthew Hicks, and Atul Prakash, "Approximate Flash Storage: A Feasibility Study", Workshop on Approximate Computing Across the System Stack, March 2016.

Amir Rahmati,  Matthew Hicks, Daniel E. Holcomb, and Kevin Fu, "Probable Cause: The Deanonymizing Effects of Approximate DRAM", International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2015.

Slides and Code

Matthew Hicks, Cynthia Sturton, Samuel T. King, and Jonathan M. Smith, "SPECS: A lightweight runtime mechanism for protecting software from security-critical processor bugs", Proceedings of the Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2015.

Slides and Code

Amir Rahmati,  Matthew Hicks, Daniel E. Holcomb, and Kevin Fu, "Refreshing Thoughts on DRAM: Power Saving vs. Data Integrity", Workshop on Approximate Computing Across the System Stack (WACAS), Salt Lake City, UT, March 2014.

Matthew Hicks, "Practical systems for overcoming processor imperfections", University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ph. D. Dissertation, May 2013.

Cynthia Sturton, Matthew Hicks, David Wagner, and Samuel T. King, “Defeating UCI: Building Stealthy and Malicious Hardware”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2011.