publications

A list of my publications in reverse chronological order.

40+ Peer-Reviewed Publications
3 US Patents
3 Best Paper / Demo Awards
🏆 Best Paper — AsianHOST 2018 · 🏅 Best Poster/Demo — ACM WiSec 2025 · 🥈 Best Hardware Demo (2nd) — IEEE HOST 2024 · 📝 Best Paper Nominee — ACM GLSVLSI 2017 · ⭐ Featured Paper of the Month — IEEE TC Feb 2022

2026

  1. ATTINA: Spatial Acceleration of Additive Number Theoretic Transform for Energy-Efficient zkSNARKs at the Edge
    Yanze Wu, Devin Park, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    In Proceedings of the 63rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) , Long Beach, CA, USA, 2026
  2. GPU Acceleration of the Sum-Check Protocol Over Towers of Binary Fields for Verifiable Computing
    Andrew Fan, Yanze Wu, Harry Han, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2026 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference , Verona, Italy, 2026
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  3. LiDAR Spoofing for Compromising SLAM on ROS2 Using Statistical Beam Adjustment & Temporal Modeling
    Finn Schaefer, Ryan Lam, Sidarth Kumar, and 3 more authors
    In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) , Washington DC, 2026
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  4. ArKANe: Accelerating Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks on Reconfigurable Spatial Architectures
    Yanze Wu, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 2026
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  5. Parallel Hash Chain Computation and Tree Compression on Reconfigurable Multi-Tile Arrays
    Yanze Wu, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    2026
    Provisional patent application under consideration

2025

  1. Thena: Torus Fully Homomorphic Encryption on Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Architecture
    Yanze Wu, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design , Dallas, TX, USA, 2025
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  2. Energy-Efficient Acceleration of Hash-Based Post-Quantum Cryptographic Schemes on Embedded Spatial Architectures
    Yanze Wu, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    In Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) , Irvine, California, USA, 2025
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  3. Cybersecurity-Focused Anomaly Detection in Connected Autonomous Vehicles Using Machine Learning
    Prathyush Kumar Reddy Lebaku, Lu Gao, Yunpeng Zhang, and 3 more authors
    In International Conference on Transportation and Development 2025 , 2025
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  4. DEMO: Radio Unit Activity Fingerprinting through Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis in O-RAN Networks
    Sreenithya Somavarapu, Harshita Chaudhari, Nour El Houda Aidlaid, and 5 more authors
    In 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks , 2025
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  5. Explainable Probabilistic Models on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Yanze Wu, Shou Matsumoto, and 1 more author
    In Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech 2025) Digest , 2025
    4 pages, Poster Presentation, P.19
  6. Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in the FPGA Implementations of Lattice-Based Post-Quantum Cryptographic Schemes
    Yiting Wang, Zelin Lu, Gang Qu, and 1 more author
    In Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech 2025) Digest , 2025
    4 pages, Oral Presentation, Session 53.1
  7. Large Language Models for Secure Microelectronics: Challenges and Opportunities
    Md Tanvir Arafin
    In Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech 2025) Digest , 2025
    4 pages, Oral Presentation, Session 49.4
  8. Attack Detection and Countermeasures at Edge Devices
    Fahim Ahmed, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    In Smart Cyber-Physical Power Systems: Challenges and Solutions , 2025
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  9. An Auto-profiling Side-Channel Attack against NTT Hardware Implementations
    Yiting Wang, Zelin Lu, Gang Qu, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium , Nanjing, China, 2025
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  10. SHAFI: Securing Hash-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography from Hardware Fault Injection Attacks
    Yanze Wu, Qian Wang, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium , Nanjing, China, 2025
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  11. Attack Detection and Countermeasures for Autonomous Navigation
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Kevin Kornegay
    Oct 2025
    US Patent 12,438,890

2024

  1. Poster: Address Resolution Protocol Based Attacks for Multi-Robot Systems
    Blake E Todorowski, Michael Lane Fox, Harris E Laing, and 5 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST) , Oct 2024
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  2. Ising Model Processors on a Spatial Computing Architecture
    Yanze Wu, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    In 2024 IEEE 67th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) , Oct 2024
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  3. An RRAM-Based Computing-in-Memory Architecture and Its Application in Accelerating Transformer Inference
    Zhaojun Lu, Xueyan Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Mar 2024
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  4. SANTA: A Spatial Accelerator Design for Efficient Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) on Heterogeneous System-on-Chips
    Fahim Ahmed, and Md Tanvir Arafin
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security , Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Mar 2024
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2023

  1. ADLPT: Improving 3D NAND Flash Memory Reliability by Adaptive Lifetime Prediction Techniques
    Yuqian Pan, Zhaojun Lu, Haichun Zhang, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Trans. Computers, Mar 2023
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2022

  1. Computation-in-Memory Accelerators for Secure Graph Database: Opportunities and Challenges
    Md Tanvir Arafin
    In 27th IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) , Mar 2022
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  2. Voltage Overscaling Techniques for Security Applications
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Qian Xu, and Gang Qu
    In Approximate Computing , Mar 2022
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  3. Approximation on Data Flow Graph Execution for Energy Efficiency
    Qian Xu, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In Approximate Computing , Mar 2022
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  4. Cyber Threat Analysis and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
    Shuangbao Paul Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, Onyema Osuagwu, and 1 more author
    In 2022 6th IEEE International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CSP) , Mar 2022
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  5. Voltage Over-Scaling-Based Lightweight Authentication for IoT Security
    Jiliang Zhang, Chaoqun Shen, Haihan Su, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Mar 2022
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  6. An Approximate Memory Based Defense Against Model Inversion Attacks to Neural Networks
    Qian Xu, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Mar 2022
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2021

  1. Method to Mitigate Voltage Based Attacks on Key Agreement Over Controller Area Network (CAN)
    Shalabh Jain, Qian Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, and 1 more author
    Mar 2021
    US Patent 10,958,680
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  2. Attack Detection and Countermeasures for Autonomous Navigation
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Kevin Kornegay
    In 2021 55th IEEE Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) , Mar 2021
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  3. RIME: A Scalable and Energy-Efficient Processing-In-Memory Architecture for Floating-Point Operations
    Zhaojun Lu, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In 2021 26th IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) , Mar 2021
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  4. Security of Neural Networks from Hardware Perspective: A Survey and Beyond
    Qian Xu, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In 2021 26th IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) , Mar 2021
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  5. Hardware-Based Authentication Applications
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In Authentication of Embedded Devices , Mar 2021
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  6. Engaging Underrepresented Students in Cybersecurity using Capture-the-Flag(CTF) Competitions (Experience)
    Michel A. Kornegay, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Kevin Kornegay
    In 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access , Jul 2021
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2020

  1. Method to Mitigate Transients Based Attacks on Key Agreement Schemes Over Controller Area Network
    Shalabh Jain, Qian Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, and 1 more author
    Feb 2020
    US Patent 10,554,241
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  2. Securing Industrial Control Systems Using Physical Device Fingerprinting
    Tsion Yimer, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Kevin Kornegay
    In 2020 7th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS) , Feb 2020
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  3. MIDAS: Model Inversion Defenses Using an Approximate Memory System
    Qian Xu, Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In 2020 IEEE Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST) , Feb 2020
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  4. Security Challenges of Processing-in-Memory Systems
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Zhaojun Lu
    In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) , Feb 2020
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  5. FABLE-DTS: Hardware-Software Co-Design of a Fast and Stable Data Transmission System for FPGAs
    Jia-Bao Gao, Jian Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, and 1 more author
    In 2020 IEEE 33rd International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC) , Feb 2020
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2019

  1. LPN-based Device Authentication Using Resistive Memory
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Haoting Shen, Mark M Tehranipoor, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) , Feb 2019
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2018

  1. Hardware-Based Authentication for the Internet of Things
    Md Tanvir Arafin
    University of Maryland, College Park , Feb 2018
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  2. Probing Attacks on Physical Layer Key Agreement for Automotive Controller Area Networks
    Shalabh Jain, Qian Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, and 1 more author
    In 2018 IEEE Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST) , Feb 2018
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  3. Memristors for Secret Sharing-Based Lightweight Authentication
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), Feb 2018
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2017

  1. Hardware-based Anti Counterfeiting Techniques for Safeguarding Supply Chain Integrity
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Andrew Stanley, and Praveen Sharma
    In 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) , Feb 2017
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  2. Memristor-Based Security
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In Security Opportunities in Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies , Feb 2017
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  3. VOLtA: Voltage Over-Scaling Based Lightweight Authentication for IoT Applications
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Mingze Gao, and Gang Qu
    In 2017 22nd IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) , Feb 2017
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  4. Approximate Computing for Low Power and Security in the Internet of Things
    Mingze Gao, Qian Wang, Md Tanvir Arafin, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Computer, Feb 2017
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  5. A Low-Cost GPS Spoofing Detector Design for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Dhananjay Anand, and Gang Qu
    In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2017 (GLSVLSI) , Feb 2017
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2016

  1. Detecting GNSS Spoofing using a Network of Hardware Oscillators
    Md Tanvir Arafin, DM Anand, and Gang Qu
    In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting (PTTI) , Feb 2016
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  2. Secret Sharing and Multi-User Authentication: From Visual Cryptography to RRAM Circuits
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) , Feb 2016
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2015

  1. A Survey on Memristor Modeling and Security Applications
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Carson Dunbar, Gang Qu, and 2 more authors
    In Sixteenth IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) , Feb 2015
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  2. RRAM Based Lightweight User Authentication
    Md Tanvir Arafin, and Gang Qu
    In 2015 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) , Feb 2015
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2012

  1. Performance Optimization for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser at Higher Temperature Using Genetic Algorithm
    Md Tanvir Arafin, Nazifah Islam, Sourav Roy, and 1 more author
    Optical and Quantum Electronics, Feb 2012
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