Sep 2026: Our paper Fast Inference, Faster Leakage: Datastore Extraction from Speculative Decoding in LLMs is accepted to appear in NDSS 2027. Authors: Nikhilesh Singh, Mohamadreza Rostami, Lichao Wu, Huimin Li, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi.
Sep 2026: Secure Reconfiguration for Multi-Tenant FPGAs is accepted to appear in ASP-DAC 2027. Authors: Nikhilesh Singh, Huimin Li, Mohamadreza Rostami, Lichao Wu, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi.
Sep 2026: Our paper AI for Silicon, Silicon for AI: Towards Autonomous Hardware Security at the Edge is accepted to appear in ICCAD 2026 Special Session. Authors: Nikhilesh Singh, Mohamadreza Rostami, Mozhgan Navardi, Tinoosh Mohsenin, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi.
Aug 2026: I am serving on the Program Committee for VLSID 2027.
Jul 2026: I am serving on the Program Committee for Usenix Security 2027 and HOST 2027.
Mar 2026: I am serving on the Program Committee for NDSS 2027.
Feb 2026: Our paper What the Fuzz! Pushing Beyond Randomness in Hardware Security with Generative AI is accepted to appear in DATE 2026 Focus Session. Authors: Nikhilesh Singh, Mohamadreza Rostami, Lichao Wu, Chen Chen, Stephen Muttathil, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi.
Feb 2026: Our paper Advanced Hybrid Hardware Fuzzing is accepted to appear in DATE 2026 Focus Session. Authors: Chen Chen, Stephen Muttathil, Mohamadreza Rostami, Nikhilesh Singh, Lichao Wu, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Jeyavijayan Rajendran.
Feb 2026: Our paper AttackonCTF: Defending Hardware Security Competition Benchmarks in the Age of LLMs is accepted to appear in DAC 2026. Authors: Mohamadreza Rostami, Nikhilesh Singh, Stephen Muttathil, Lichao Wu, Chen Chen, Huimin Li, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi.
Nov 2025: Our paper AegisSat: Securing AI-Enabled SoC FPGA Satellite Platforms is accepted to Security for Space Systems (3S) 2025. Authors: Huimin Li, Vusal Novruzov, Nikhilesh Singh, Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi.
Sep 2025: Organized HACK@CHES 2025 co-located with CHES 2025, in collaboration with Intel and Texas A&M University.
Aug 2025: I am serving on the Program Committee for AsiaCCS 2026.
Aug 2025: Our paper GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing is accepted to appear in NDSS 2026. Authors: Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami, Huimin Li, Nikhilesh Singh, and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi)
Apr 2025: I am serving on the Program Committee for NDSS 2026.
Mar 2025: Organized HACK@DATE 2025 co-located with DATE 2025, in collaboration with Intel and Texas A&M University.
Mar 2025: Our paper Valkyrie: A Response Framework to Augment Runtime Detection of Time-Progressive Attacks is accepted to appear in DSN 2025. Authors: Nikhilesh Singh and Chester Rebeiro.