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Hardware Security Lab

Research in secure hardware design, microarchitectural side-channel attacks, and applied cryptography, at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Faculty

Students

Alumni

Andrew Kwong

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Assistant Professor
UNC Chapel Hill

Byeongyong Go

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Software Engineer
Amazon

Youssef Tobah

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MIT Lincoln Labs

Stephan van Schaik

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Self-employed

Nureddin Kamadan

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PhD Student
University of Oxford

Jason Kim

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Interrupt Labs

Join Us

We are looking for excellent students interested in working with us. If that is you, drop us a line at [email protected].

Highlighted Projects

Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)
RAMBleed
Load Value Injection (LVI)

Our Awards 🏆

A big thanks to the following venues for recognizing our work:
  • ACM CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award (WireTap)
  • IEEE S&P 2025 (Oakland) Distinguished Paper Award (SLAP)
  • ACM CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award (Side Channel Testing of Future Architectures)
  • German IT Security 2024 Prize (CryptOpt)
  • Black Hat 2024 Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack (GoFetch)
  • ACM PLDI 2023 Best Paper Award (CryptOpt)
  • ACM CCS 2022 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (When Frodo Flips)
  • NSA's Best Scientific Cybersecurity Competition 2020 Distinguished Paper Award (Spectre)
  • NSA's Best Scientific Cybersecurity Competition 2019 Honorable Mention (Meltdown)
  • IEEE S&P 2019 (Oakland) Distinguished Paper Award (Spectre)
  • IEEE 2019 Micro Top Pick (Foreshadow)
  • Black 2018 Hat Pwnie Award for Most Innovative Research (Spectre+Meltdown)
  • Black 2018 Hat Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug (Spectre+Meltdown)

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