Publications

Conference Papers

1. Tail Victims in Termination Timing Channel Protections beyond Cryptographic Kernels
   Shijia Wei, Austin Harris, Yongye Zhu, Prakash Ramrakhyani, Calvin Lin, and Mohit Tiwari
   2024 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED)
   
   SEED2024 Bibtex

   @inproceedings{wei2024RevisitingTerminationTimingChannelProtections,
     author = {Shijia\ Wei and Harris, Austin and Zhu, Yongye and Ramrakhyani, Prakash and Lin, Calvin and Tiwari, Mohit},
     title = {Tail Victims in Termination Timing Channel Protections beyond Cryptographic Kernels},
     booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED)},
     year = {2024},
     group = {conference},
     tag = {SEED2024}
   }
   

2. Morpheus II: A RISC-V Security Extension for Protecting Vulnerable Software and Hardware
   Austin Harris, Tarunesh Verma, Shijia Wei, Alex Kisil, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Valeria Bertacco, Baris Kasikci, Mohit Tiwari, and Todd Austin
   2021 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
   
   HOST2021 Bibtex PDF DOI

   @inproceedings{harris2021morpheus2,
     title = {Morpheus II: A RISC-V Security Extension for Protecting Vulnerable Software and Hardware},
     author = {Austin\ Harris and Verma, Tarunesh and Wei, Shijia and Kisil, Alex and Aga, Misiker Tadesse and Bertacco, Valeria and Kasikci, Baris and Tiwari, Mohit and Austin, Todd},
     booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)},
     year = {2021},
     organization = {IEEE},
     group = {conference},
     link = {http://spark.ece.utexas.edu/pubs/HOST-21-morpheus.pdf},
     doi = {10.1109/HOST49136.2021.9702275},
     tag = {HOST2021}
   }
   

3. Cyclone: Detecting contention-based cache information leaks through cyclic interference
   Austin Harris*, Shijia Wei*, Prateek Sahu, Pranav Kumar, Todd Austin, and Mohit Tiwari
   The 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
   
   MICRO2019 (*=co-first authors) Bibtex PDF DOI

   @inproceedings{harris2019cyclone,
     author = {Austin\ Harris* and Wei*, Shijia and Sahu, Prateek and Kumar, Pranav and Austin, Todd and Tiwari, Mohit},
     title = {Cyclone: Detecting contention-based cache information leaks through cyclic interference},
     booktitle = {The 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)},
     pages = {57--72},
     year = {2019},
     note = {(*=co-first authors)},
     group = {conference},
     link = {https://spark.ece.utexas.edu/pubs/MICRO-19-cyclone.pdf},
     doi = {10.1145/3352460.3358273},
     tag = {MICRO2019}
   }
   

4. Using power-anomalies to counter evasive micro-architectural attacks in embedded systems
   Shijia Wei, Aydin Aysu, Michael Orshansky, Andreas Gerstlauer, and Mohit Tiwari
   2019 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
   
   HOST2019 Best Paper Finalist Bibtex PDF DOI

   @inproceedings{wei2019using,
     title = {Using power-anomalies to counter evasive micro-architectural attacks in embedded systems},
     author = {Shijia\ Wei and Aysu, Aydin and Orshansky, Michael and Gerstlauer, Andreas and Tiwari, Mohit},
     booktitle = {2019 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)},
     pages = {111--120},
     year = {2019},
     organization = {IEEE},
     note = {Best Paper Finalist},
     group = {conference},
     link = {https://spark.ece.utexas.edu/pubs/HOST-19-power-anomaly.pdf},
     doi = {10.1109/HST.2019.8740838},
     tag = {HOST2019}
   }
   

Journal Papers

1. Revisiting Browser Performance Benchmarking From an Architectural Perspective
   Yongye Zhu, Shijia Wei, and Mohit Tiwari
   IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
   
   CAL2022 Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{zhuRevisitingBrowserPerformance2022,
     title = {Revisiting {{Browser Performance Benchmarking From}} an {{Architectural Perspective}}},
     author = {Yongye\ Zhu and Wei, Shijia and Tiwari, Mohit},
     year = {2022},
     month = jul,
     journal = {IEEE Computer Architecture Letters},
     volume = {21},
     number = {2},
     pages = {113--116},
     issn = {1556-6064},
     keywords = {Browser,Browsers,Measurement,micro-architecture,Monitoring,Optimization,Paints,performance evaluation,Software,Timing},
     group = {journal},
     doi = {10.1109/LCA.2022.3210483},
     tag = {CAL2022}
   }
   

2. Software-driven Security Attacks: From Vulnerability Sources to Durable Hardware Defenses
   Lauren Biernacki, Mark Gallagher, Zhixing Xu, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Austin Harris, Shijia Wei, Mohit Tiwari, Baris Kasikci, Sharad Malik, and Todd Austin
   ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
   
   JETC2021 Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{biernacki2021software,
     title = {Software-driven Security Attacks: From Vulnerability Sources to Durable Hardware Defenses},
     author = {Lauren\ Biernacki and Gallagher, Mark and Xu, Zhixing and Aga, Misiker Tadesse and Harris, Austin and Wei, Shijia and Tiwari, Mohit and Kasikci, Baris and Malik, Sharad and Austin, Todd},
     journal = {ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)},
     volume = {17},
     number = {3},
     pages = {1--38},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY},
     doi = {10.1145/3456299},
     group = {journal},
     tag = {JETC2021}
   }
   

Workshop Papers

1. Triton: Software-Defined Threat Model for Secure Multi-Tenant ML Inference Accelerators
   Sarbartha Banerjee, Shijia Wei, Prakash Ramrakhyani, and Mohit Tiwari
   The 12th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP), with MICRO’23
   
   HASP23 Best Paper Finalist Bibtex DOI

   @inproceedings{banerjee2023triton,
     title = {Triton: Software-Defined Threat Model for Secure Multi-Tenant ML Inference Accelerators},
     author = {Sarbartha\ Banerjee and Wei, Shijia and Ramrakhyani, Prakash and Tiwari, Mohit},
     booktitle = {The 12th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP), with MICRO'23},
     pages = {19--28},
     year = {2023},
     note = {Best Paper Finalist},
     doi = {10.1145/3623652.3623672},
     group = {workshop},
     tag = {HASP23}
   }
   

2. Sidecars on the Central Lane: Impact of Network Proxies on Microservices
   Prateek Sahu, Lucy Zheng, Marco Bueso, Shijia Wei, Neeraja Yadwadkar, and Mohit Tiwari
   Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra), with ISCA’23
   
   HotInfra23 Bibtex arXiv

   @inproceedings{sahu2023sidecars,
     title = {Sidecars on the Central Lane: Impact of Network Proxies on Microservices},
     author = {Prateek\ Sahu and Zheng, Lucy and Bueso, Marco and Wei, Shijia and Yadwadkar, Neeraja and Tiwari, Mohit},
     journal = {Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra), with ISCA'23},
     year = {2023},
     group = {workshop},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2306.15792},
     tag = {HotInfra23}
   }
   

3. Bandwidth Utilization Side-Channel on ML Inference Accelerators
   Sarbartha Banerjee, Shijia Wei, Prakash Ramrakhyani, and Mohit Tiwari
   Workshop on Secure and Private Systems for machine Learning (SPSL), with ISCA’21
   
   SPSL21 Bibtex arXiv

   @inproceedings{banerjee2021bandwidth,
     title = {Bandwidth Utilization Side-Channel on ML Inference Accelerators},
     author = {Sarbartha\ Banerjee and Wei, Shijia and Ramrakhyani, Prakash and Tiwari, Mohit},
     journal = {Workshop on Secure and Private Systems for machine Learning (SPSL), with ISCA'21},
     year = {2021},
     group = {workshop},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2110.07157},
     tag = {SPSL21}
   }