Special Sessions

  • Date: January 22 - 24, 2019
  • Place: Miraikan, 7F, Room Saturn
Date/Time Title
1A Tuesday, January 22
10:45-12:00
Presentation + Poster Discussion: "University LSI Design Contest"
SS-1 Tuesday, January 22
13:30-15:35
Invited Talks: "Reverse Engineering: growing more mature — and facing powerful countermeasures"
SS-2 Tuesday, January 22
15:55-17:10
Invited Talks: "Design, testing, and fault tolerance of Neuromorphic systems"
SS-3 Wednesday, January 23
10:20-12:00
Invited Talks: "Modern Mask Optimization: From Shallow To Deep Learning"
SS-4 Thursday, January 24
10:20-12:00
Invited Talks: "Security of Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Security: Progress and Challenges for Secure, Machine Intelligent Mobile Systems"
SS-5 Thursday, January 24
16:25-17:40
Invited Talks: "The Resurgence of Reconfigurable Computing in the Post Moore Era"

1A: Tuesday, January 22, 10:45 - 12:00

Presentation + Poster Discussion: "University LSI Design Contest"

SS-1: Tuesday, January 22, 13:30 - 15:35

Invited Talks: "Reverse Engineering: growing more mature — and facing powerful countermeasures"
Chair: Naehyuck Chang (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
  • 1: Integrated Flow for Reverse Engineering of Nanoscale Technologies
    Bernhard Lippmann, Aayush Singla, Niklas Unverricht, Peter Egger, Anja Dübotzky, Michael Werner (Infineon Technologies AG, Germany), Horst Gieser (Fraunhofer EMFT, Germany), Martin Rasche, Oliver Kellermann (Raith GmbH, Germany), Helmut Gräb (TUM, Germany)
  • 2: NETA: When IP Fails, Secrets Leak
    Travis Meade, Jason Portillo, Shaojie Zhang (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.), Yier Jin (Univ. of Florida, U.S.A.)
  • 3: Machine Learning and Structural Characteristics for Reverse Engineering
    Johanna Baehr, Alessandro Bernardini, Georg Sigl, Ulf Schlichtmann (Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany)
  • 4: Towards Cognitive Obfuscation: Impeding Hardware Reverse Engineering Based on Psychological Insights
    Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Nils Albartus, Max Hoffmann, Sebastian Wallat, Marc Fyrbiak, Nikol Rummel, Christof Paar (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany)
  • 5: Insights to the Mind of a Trojan Designer: The Challenge to Integrate a Trojan in the Bitstream
    Maik Ender, Paul Martin Knopp, Christof Paar, Pawel Swierczynski, Sebastian Wallert, Matthias Wilhelm (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany)

SS-2: Tuesday, January 22, 15:55 - 17:10

Invited Talks: "Design, testing, and fault tolerance of Neuromorphic systems"
Chair: Chenchen Liu (Clarkson Univ., U.S.A.)
  • 1: Fault Tolerance in Neuromorphic Computing Systems
    Yu Wang (Tsinghua Univ., China), Mengyun Liu, Krishnendu Chakrabarty (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), Lixue Xia (Tsinghua Univ., China)
  • 2: Build Reliable and Efficient Neuromorphic Design with Memristor Technology
    Bing Li, Bonan Yan (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), Chenchen Liu (Clarkson Univ., U.S.A.), Hai Li (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)
  • 3: Reliable In-Memory Neuromorphic Computing Using Spintronics
    Christopher Muench, Rajendra Bishnoi, Mehdi Tahoori (KIT, Germany)

SS-3: Wednesday, January 23, 10:20 - 12:00

Invited Talks: "Modern Mask Optimization: From Shallow To Deep Learning"
Chairs: Evangeline F. Y. Young (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Atsushi Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
  • 1: LithoROC: Lithography Hotspot Detection with Explicit ROC Optimization
    Wei Ye, Yibo Lin, Meng Li, Qiang Liu, David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
  • 2: Detecting Multi-Layer Layout Hotspots with Adaptive Squish Patterns
    Haoyu Yang (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Piyush Pathak, Frank Gennari, Ya-Chieh Lai (Cadence Design Systems, U.S.A.), Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  • 3: A Local Optimal Method on DSA Guiding Template Assignment with Redundant/Dummy Via Insertion
    Xingquan Li (Fuzhou Univ., China), Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jianli Chen, Wenxing Zhu (Fuzhou Univ., China)
  • 4: Deep Learning-Based Framework for Comprehensive Mask Optimization
    Bo-Yi Yu, Yong Zhong, Shao-Yun Fang, Hung-Fei Kuo (National Taiwan Univ. of Science and Tech., Taiwan)

SS-4: Thursday, January 24, 10:20 - 12:00

Invited Talks: "Security of Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Security: Progress and Challenges for Secure, Machine Intelligent Mobile Systems"
Chairs: Xiang Chen (George Mason Univ., U.S.A.), Yanzhi Wang (Northeastern Univ., U.S.A.)
  • 1: ADMM Attack: An Enhanced Adversarial Attack for Deep Neural Networks with Undetectable Distortions
    Pu Zhao, Kaidi Xu (Northeastern Univ., U.S.A.), Sijia Liu (IBM Research, U.S.A.), Yanzhi Wang, Xue Lin (Northeastern Univ., U.S.A.)
  • 2: A System-level Perspective to Understand the Vulnerability of Deep Learning Systems
    Tao Liu, Nuo Xu, Qi Liu (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.), Yanzhi Wang (Northeastern Univ., U.S.A.), Wujie Wen (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.)
  • 3: High-Performance Adaptive Mobile Security Enhancement against Malicious Speech and Image Recognition
    Zirui Xu, Fuxun Yu (George Mason Univ., U.S.A.), Chenchen Liu (Clarkson Univ., U.S.A.), Xiang Chen (George Mason Univ., U.S.A.)
  • 4: AdverQuil: an Efficient Adversarial Detection and Alleviation Technique for Black-Box Neuromorphic Computing Systems
    Hsin-Pai Cheng, Juncheng Shen, Huanrui Yang (Duke Univ., U.S.A.), Qing Wu (Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S.A.), Hai Li, Yiran Chen (Duke Univ., U.S.A.)

SS-5: Thursday, January 24, 16:25 - 17:40

Invited Talks: "The Resurgence of Reconfigurable Computing in the Post Moore Era"
Chair: Antonino Tumeo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.A.)
  • 1: Software Defined Architectures for Data Analytics
    Vito Giovanni Castellana, Marco Minutoli, Antonino Tumeo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.A.), Pietro Fezzardi, Marco Lattuada, Fabrizio Ferrandi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • 2: Runtime Reconfigurable Memory Hierarchy in Embedded Scalable Platforms
    Davide Giri, Paolo Mantovani, Luca P. Carloni (Columbia Univ., U.S.A.)
  • 3: XPPE: Cross-Platform Performance Estimation of Hardware Accelerators Using Machine Learning
    Hosein Mohamamdi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad (George Mason Univ., U.S.A.)

Last Updated on: November 28, 2018