Updates and talks
Recent publications, presentations, outreach, and research milestones.
2026
SLAC: Access-Driven CPU-to-GPU Side-channel Attacks via System-Level Cache on Apple Silicon
To appear at the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) · The Hague, Netherlands.
ROBBIN: Rowhammer-Based Backdoor Injection during Inference
To appear at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) · San Jose, California.
Session Chair at ICCAD 2026
I will serve as a session chair at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) · San Jose, California.
CAPER: Circuit-Aware Parameter-Efficient Reasoning in LLMs for Analog Verification
To be presented at the IBM/IEEE AI Compute Symposium (AICS 2026) · IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.
Humans of NanoSI: Saion K. Roy
Profiled by the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation (NanoSI) at Northeastern University · Online.
HOTSPOT: Hardware Observation via Temperature Sensing for Protection against On-Chip Trojans
Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I).
Comprehending the Energy-Accuracy-Security Trade-offs in Embedded Non-Volatile In-Memory Computing Architectures
Published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
Attack from Shadows: Unsupervised Side-channel Transfer Learning across Devices and Modalities
Published and presented at the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) · Bangalore, India.
2025
Energy-Accuracy-Security Trade-offs in Resistive In-Memory Computing Architectures
Presented at the SRC JUMP 2.0 COCOSYS Annual Review · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia · March.
Presented at New England Hardware Security Day · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts · April.
Presented at the Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence for National Security (RAAINS) Workshop · MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts · November.
Energy-Accuracy Trade-Offs for Resistive In-Memory Computing Architectures
Presented at the IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits (JxCDC) Open Journal Webinar · Online.
2024
Saion K. Roy: Graduate Spotlight
Featured in the SRC JUMP 2.0 COCOSYS Graduate Spotlight · Online.
The Energy-Accuracy-Security Trade-off in Resistive In-memory Architectures
Published at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).
On the Security Vulnerabilities of MRAM-based In-Memory Computing Architectures against Model Extraction Attacks
Published and presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) · Newark, New Jersey.
Security Vulnerabilities of eNVM-based In-memory Architectures
Presented at SRC JUMP 2.0 COCOSYS · Online.
Compute SNDR-boosted 22 nm MRAM-based In-memory Computing Macro using Statistical Error Compensation
Published in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC).
Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs for Resistive In-Memory Computing Architectures
Presented at SRC JUMP 2.0 COCOSYS · Online · May.
Presented at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras · Chennai, India · August.
Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs for Resistive In-Memory Computing Architectures
Published in the IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits (JxCDC).
Compute SNDR-boosted 22 nm MRAM IMC using Statistical Error Compensation
Presented at SRC JUMP 2.0 COCOSYS · Online.
GPLeak: Software Power Side Channel Leakage in GPUs
Presented at the Coordinated Science Laboratory Student Conference · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois · Oral Presentation Award.
2023
Compute SNR-boosted 22 nm MRAM-based In-memory Computing Macro using Statistical Error Compensation
Published and presented at the IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) · Lisbon, Portugal.
Fundamental Limits on the Compute SNR of Resistive In-Memory Architectures
Presented at the Coordinated Science Laboratory Student Conference · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois · Best Speaker Award.
2022
Benchmarking In-memory Computing Architectures
Published in the IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS).
Fundamental Limits on the Computational Accuracy of Resistive Crossbar-based In-memory Architectures
Published and presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) · Austin, Texas · Student Participation Grant.
Comprehending In-memory Computing Trends via Proper Benchmarking
Published at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC).