Simha Sethumadhavan

About

Simha Sethumadhavan is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. His research focuses on computer architecture and security, particularly using hardware to improve system security. He has developed methods for detecting hardware backdoors, mitigating side-channel vulnerabilities, and supporting memory safety. His work includes the Polyglot system and Silicon AV malware detection. He also explores analog accelerators for post-Moore computing.

Selected publications

• Trustworthy Hardware from Untrustworthy Components
• Silencing Hardware Backdoors
• FANCI: Identification of Stealthy Malicious Logic Using Boolean Functional Analysis
• CLKSCREW: Exposing the Perils of Security Oblivious Energy Management
• Side-Channel Vulnerability Factor: A Metric for Measuring Information Leakage
• ZeRO: Zero-Overhead Resilient Operation Under Pointer Integrity Attacks
• No-FAT: Architectural Support for Low Overhead Memory Safety Checks
• Practical Memory Safety with REST
• A Silicon Anti-virus Engine
• Heterogeneous Isolated Execution for Commodity GPUs