Amro Awad

Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering (Digital Technologies) at Engineering Science Department, and Weir Fellow and Praelector in Engineering at Univ.

Teaching:
At the Engineering Science Department, I teach courses related to computer architecture and more generally computer engineering. At Univ, I hold tutorials on subjects related to electrical engineering (P2), mathematics (P1), and introduction to computer engineering (A2).

Research:
My research is focused on enabling scalable and high-performance security and privacy guarantees in future computing systems. From efficient hardware-enabled data protection mechanisms in compute devices to scalable access control in large-scale systems, we explore novel mechanisms to mitigate advanced threats including compromised semiconductor supply chain and physical access to computing systems.

Publications:
Rahaf Abdullah, Hyokeun Lee, Huiyang Zhou, and Amro Awad. 2024. Salus: Efficient Security Support for CXL-Expanded GPU Memory. Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture HPCA 2024.

Emre Karabulut, Amro Awad, Aydin Aysu. 2023. SS-AXI: Secure and Safe Access Control Mechanism for
Multi-Tenant Cloud FPGAs. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) ISCAS 2023.

Faiz Alam, Hyokeun Lee, Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Amro Awad. 2023. CryptoMMU: Enabling Scalable and Secure Access Control of Third-Party Accelerators. Proceedings of the 56th Annual International Symposium in Microarchitecture MICRO 2023. Best Paper Candidate

Xijing Han, James Tuck, and Amro Awad. 2023. Thoth: Bridging the Gap Between Persistently Secure Memories and Memory Interfaces of Emerging NVMs. Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture HPCA 2023.

Rahaf Abdullah, Huiyang Zhou, and Amro Awad. 2023. Plutus: Bandwidth-Efficient Memory Security for GPUs. Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture HPCA 2023.

Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Myoungsoo Jung, Fan Yao and Amro Awad. 2023. D-Shield: Enabling Processor-Side Encryption and Integrity Verification for Secure NVMe Drives. Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture HPCA 2023.

Mark Plagge, Ben Feinberg, John McFarland, Fred Rothganger, Sapan Agarwal, Amro Awad, Clayton Hughes, Suma G Cardwell. 2023. ATHENA: Enabling Codesign for Next-Generation AI/ML Architectures. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC) ICRC 2022.

Xijing Han, James Tuck and Amro Awad. 2022. Horus: Persistent Security for Extended Persistence-Domain Memory Systems. Proceedings of the 55th Annual International Symposium in Microarchitecture MICRO 2022.

Shubham Nema, Justin Kirschner, Debpratim Adak, Sapan Agarwal, Ben Feinberg, Arun F. Rodrigues, Matthew Marinella, and Amro Awad. 2022. Eris: Fault Injection and Tracking Framework for Reliability Analysis of Open-Source Hardware. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2022) IEEE ISPASS 2022.

ülkü Meteriz-Yildiran, Necip Fazil Yildiran, Amro Awad, and David Mohaisen. 2022. A Keylogging Inference Attack on Air-Tapping Keyboards. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) IEEE VR 2022. Best Paper Candidate.