Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)
December 11-13, 2026
IIT Kharagpur Research Park,
Kolkata, India
IIT Kharagpur Research Park,
Kolkata, India
| 08:00–09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00–11:30 | Tutorial Session — Host: TBD |
| 09:00–10:00 | Towards Practical FHE: EDA-Based Circuit Optimization for Privacy-Preserving Applications Speaker: Dr. Ayantika Chatterjee, IIT Kharagpur |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30–11:30 | Signatures and Secrets: Harnessing SRAM Power-Up States for Hardware Security Speaker: Dr. Ujjwal Guin |
| 11:30–13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00–14:00 | Post-Quantum Cryptography: NIST Standardization and Beyond Speaker: Dr. Suparna Kundu, KU Leuven |
| 14:00–15:00 | From Prompt to Production: The Systems Stack Behind Agentic AI and the Open Problems in Making It Safe at Scale Speakers: Dr. Souvik Kundu (Intel AI) and Dr. Subrat Panda |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30–17:00 | Registration |
| 18:00–20:00 | Symposium Reception |
| 08:00–09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00–09:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote Lecture Session 1 — Host: TBD |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote 1: Dr. Shivam Bhasin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Side Channels Beyond Microcontrollers: A Reality Check on What Deep Learning Changes |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:30 | Paper Session 1 — Session Chair: TBD |
| 11:00–11:20 | Separating Low-Pass Filtering from Decimation in Dilithium Side-Channel Profiling Authors: Xu Li, Jiatong Tian, Bei Wang, Chenghua Wang, Weiqiang Liu, Yijun Cui — Speaker: Xu Li |
| 11:20–11:40 | ARCHE: Hardware-Managed Pointer Provenance Propagation for Capability Architectures Authors: Mishel Jyothis Paul, Edwin Kayang, Eric Jahns, Michel Kinsy — Speaker: TBD |
| 11:40–12:00 | ENFORGE: Automatic Capability Injection for Hardware-Enforced Memory Safety Authors: Edwin Kayang, Mishel Jyothis Paul, Michel Kinsy — Speaker: TBD |
| 12:00–12:20 | ScanFree: LLM-Guided Sequential ATPG for Circuits Where Scan Chains Are Inadmissible Authors: Weimin Fu, Zelin Lu, Gang Qu, Xiaolong Guo — Speaker: Gang Qu |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00–15:00 | Keynote Lecture Session 2 — Host: TBD |
| 14:00–15:00 | Keynote 2: Prof. Onur Mutlu, NYU & ETH Zurich Fantastic Bitflips and Where to Find Them (and How to Tame Them) |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30–17:00 | Paper Session 2 — Session Chair: TBD |
| 15:30–15:50 | Control-Flow Collapse: Hijacking Mixture-of-Experts Routing via Single-Bit Faults in the Gating Path Authors: Weimin Fu, Zelin Lu, Gang Qu, Xiaolong Guo — Speaker: Gang Qu |
| 15:50–16:10 | A Heuristic-Based Fault-Tolerant Solver for Noisy Small-Integer Inequality Systems (Best paper candidate) Authors: Xiaoyu Zhang, Yijun Cui, Bei Wang, Jiatong Tian, Chenghua Wang, Weiqiang Liu — Speaker: Xiaoyu Zhang |
| 16:10–16:30 | Accelerating Fault Propagation Property Verification for Cryptographic Designs Through Symbolic Execution (Best paper candidate) Authors: Xuan Huang, Wei Hu, Shibo Tang, Xingxin Wang, Lingjuan Wu, Liang Hong, Yannan Li — Speaker: Xuan Huang |
| 16:30–16:50 | Tripwire: Fault-Delivery Relocation Across Software Component Boundaries via Deferred x87 Exceptions (Best paper candidate) Authors: Xiaojie Zhang, Zeru Lan, Qingyu Ye, Chunlu Wang, Pengfei Qiu, Chongyan Gao — Speaker: Xiaojie Zhang |
| 18:00–19:30 | Cultural Program |
| 19:30–21:30 | Banquet |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote Lecture Session 3 — Host: TBD |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote 3: Prof. Jeyavijayan “JV” Rajendran, Texas A&M University The AI Frontier in Hardware Security: When Machines Find—and Create—Vulnerabilities |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30–12:00 | Paper Session 3 — Session Chair: TBD |
| 10:30–10:50 | StreamLeak: Exploiting Intel's Write-Combining Buffer for Cross-Domain Covert and Side Channels Authors: Taiyuan Shi, Zhihao Zhang, Qingyu Ye, Chunlu Wang, Pengfei Qiu — Speaker: Taiyuan Shi |
| 10:50–11:10 | State-Space Efficient Security Verification of CVA6 MMU Authors: Rakesh Patil, Chinmayi P R, Chandana R, Prathyush A Kamti, Sudeendra Kumar, Ayaskanta Swain — Speaker: TBD |
| 11:10–11:30 | Where Do Faults Matter in Quantum ML? A Study of Fault Position, Fault Type, and Hidden Sensitivity Authors: Jayanth Thangellamudi, Guru Venkataramani, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao — Speaker: TBD |
| 11:30–12:30 | PhD Forum Lightning Talk |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–14:00 | Keynote Lecture Session 4 — Host: TBD |
| 13:30–14:00 | Keynote 4: TBD TBD |
| 14:00–14:30 | Panel |
| 14:30–14:50 | Special Session |
| 14:30–14:50 | Sign Synchronization Attack on Row and Column Inversion for PUF-based Secure BNNs Author / Speaker: Srinivas Vivek |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee and PhD Forum |
| 15:30–18:35 | Special Paper Session — Session Chair: TBD |
| 15:30–15:50 | ATLAS: Attention-based Transformer for Leakage Analysis in Side-channels Authors: Soumi Chatterjee, Chevuri Eswara Adithya, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay — Speaker: Soumi Chatterjee |
| 15:50–16:10 | Toward Deployable Hardware Roots of Trust for Edge AI: Software PUFs and Their Trade-offs Authors: Yilin Li, Farhad Merchant — Speaker: Yilin Li |
| 16:10–16:30 | Adversarial Influence in Agentic RTL Generation Authors: Innocent Dengkhw Mochahari, Nandish Chattopadhyay, Anadi Goyal, Chandan Karfa, Norrathep Rattanavipanon, Anupam Chattopadhyay — Speaker: Chandan Karfa |
| 16:30–17:15 | Coffee Break |
| 17:15–17:35 | IMPEDE: Ising-based Prime Factorization Circuit Using Current Coupling and Spin-threshold Detection Authors: Samarth Shivakumar Titti, Priyanshu Sahu, Debjyoti Chowbey, Sayan Bose, Soham Das, Sujay Ghosh, Debayan Das — Speaker: Samarth Shivakumar Titti |
| 17:35–17:55 | RNSecure: Strengthening Side-Channel Security for Polynomial Arithmetic Unit of ML-KEM using Residue Number System Authors: Neha Chaurasia, Triyesh Mokara, Suraj Mandal, Debapriya Basu Roy — Speaker: Suraj Mandal |
| 17:55–18:15 | A Configurable, Area-Efficient Hardware Architecture for MAYO Signatures with Masking Countermeasure Authors: Kamal Raj, Sayan Das, Shivam Bhasin, Anupam Chattopadhyay — Speaker: Sayan Das |
| 18:15–18:35 | Clock Glitching based Fault Injection Attack on ML-KEM Key Generation Authors: Rohit L, Madhumitha Ramaswamy, Puja Mondal, Suparna Kundu, Angshuman Karmakar, Debayan Das — Speaker: Madhumitha Ramaswamy |
| 18:35–19:00 | Award Ceremony and Closing Session |
Program is tentative; session chairs and TBD speakers will be confirmed closer to the conference.
