2024 Summer School & Conference

The UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) will be holding a Summer School & Annual Conference at the University of Birmingham campus on the 30th – 31st July 2024.

The Summer School aims to bring together the UK hardware security community from both academia and industry. The programme will cover two days, with a mix of tutorials, presentations, interactive workshops and updates on the new RISE research projects. A detailed agenda will appear here in due course.

Registration

Click here to register now and secure your place!

PhD & Researcher Bursaries

Please note that a limited number bursaries are available for UK-based PhD students and post-doctoral researchers, on a first come first serve basis. Bursaries cover accommodation for 1 night and travel costs. Requests for bursaries should be sent to info@ukrise.org after registering above.

Event Location

The event will be held at the Edgbaston Hotel and Conference Centre, located on the University of Birmingham Campus

Edgbaston Park Hotel & Conference Centre, University of Birmingham

Co-Chairs


Prof David Oswald
Professor in Computer Security, University of Birmingham. David’s main field of research is the security of embedded systems and trusted execution.

Prof Máire O’Neill, FREng
Regius Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Director, Research Institute in Secure Hardware & Embedded Systems (RISE), Queens University Belfast.

Agenda

Day 1: RISE Summer School & Annual Conference, 30th July 2024
09:30 – 10:00Registration & Tea/Coffee on Arrival
10:00 – 10:10Opening Remarks
10:10 – 10:50Rene Henriquez and Dr Zitai Chen, Amazon Web Services
Relentless evaluation of the foundational security of AWS Nitro systems early in the design
10:50 – 11:30Dr Shweta Shinde, ETH Zurich
Ahoi Attacks: Breaking Confidential VMs with Malicious Interrupts
11:30 – 12:10Luca Wilke, University of Lübeck
Single-Stepping Attacks and Defences for Confidential VMs
12:10 – 13:20Lunch & Networking (Posters + Show & Tell)
13:20 – 14:00Ranga Desikachari, Crypto Quantique
Quantum-Driven crypto primitives at the heart of Hardware Root of Trust (HRoT)
14:00 – 14:40Dr Carl Shaw, Codasip
How to work with industry
14:40 – 15:00Break & Networking
15:00 – 15:40Prof Simon Moore, University of Cambridge
CHERI memory protection: pathways to industrial adoption
15:40 – 16:20Prof John Goodenough, University of Sheffield
Presentation Title TBC
Closing Remarks
18:00 – 21:00Dinner at The Studio, 7 Cannon St., Birmingham, B2 5EP
http://thestudio.co.uk/venues/birmingham/map-directions/
Day 2: RISE Summer School & Annual Conference, 31st July 2024
09:00 – 09:20Tea/Coffee on Arrival
09:20 – 09:30Opening Remarks
09:30 – 10:10Dr Greg Chadwick, lowRISC
Building secure hardware with Open Silicon at lowRISC
10:10 – 10:40RISE Project Update for TruDetect: Trustworthy Deep-Learning based Hardware Trojan Detection
Prof Máire O’Neill, Dr Ihsen Alouani, Dr Niall McLaughlin, Queen’s University of Belfast
10:40 – 11:00Break & Networking
11:00 – 11:30RISE Project Update for IOTEE: Securing and analysing trusted execution beyond the CPU
Dr Ahmad Atamli, Prof Vladi Sassone, Peiyao Sun University of Southampton
Prof David Oswald, Prof Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham
11:30 – 12:00RISE Project Update for SECCOM: Securing composable hardware platforms
Prof John Goodacre, Dr Bernardo Magri, Dr Lucas Cordeiro, University of Manchester
12:00 – 12:30UK-US Semiconductor Security Workshop Whitepaper
Prof Máire O’Neill
12:30 – 13:30Lunch & Networking
13:30 – 13:45NCSC Problem Book
13:45 – 15:00RISE Challenges: Breakout Session & Feedback
Closing Remarks
15:15 – 16:00RISE ISAB Meeting (Closed session)

Our Speakers

Prof John Goodenough – John is Professor of Microelectronic Systems at the University of Sheffield, Technology Leader in Research, Secure Microelectronic System Design and Automation, Former VP at Arm, and Member of UK Government Semiconductor Advisory Panel.

Prof Simon Moore – Simon is Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, where he conducts research and teaching in the general area of computer architecture with particular interests in secure and rigorously-engineered processors and subsystems.

Dr Shweta Shinde – Shweta is a tenure-track assistant professor at ETH Zurich, where she leads the Secure and Trustworthy Systems Group. Her research is broadly at the intersection of trusted computing, system security, and program analysis. Her group focuses on foundational aspects of confidential computing to protect phones, servers, and accelerators as well as practical aspects of building large systems.

Rene Henriquez – Rene is a Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services.

Dr Zitai Chen – Zitai is a Hardware Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services.

Dr Carl Shaw – Carl has decades of experience of analysing, designing and implementing security solutions. Following a background in defence research, he went on to lead teams developing security firmware and operating systems at STMicroelectronics for the Pay TV market. He then started a number of security consultancy companies that helped many global brand-name companies introduce security into their hardware and software products and build security capability. Carl now works as a Safety & Security Architect at Codasip, where he works on securing Codasip’s RISC-V processors.

Prof John Goodacre – John is Professor of Computer Architectures at the University of Manchester & Challenge Director at Digital Security by Design. He was previously Director of Technology and Systems in the Research Group at ARM Ltd. and was responsible for the design and introduction of the ARM MPCore multicore processor and associated technologies that enabled today’s smartphone and became the foundation for future data center infrastructure.

Dr Lucas Cordeiro -Lucas is a Reader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (UoM), where he leads the Systems and Software Security (S3) Research Group. Dr. Cordeiro is also the Arm Centre of Excellence Director at UoM. In addition, he is affiliated with the Trusted Digital Systems Cluster at the Centre for Digital Trust and Society, the Formal Methods Group at UoM, and the Post-Graduate Programs in Electrical Engineering (PPGEE) and Informatics (PPGI) at the Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil.

Ranga Desikachari – Ranga is the Head of IC Engineering at Crypto Quantique (UK). He has over 22 years experience in various multinational semiconductor companies in the US and UK, primarily as a design engineer for analog & RF mixed-signal chipsets for CSR/Qualcomm & Huawei in Cambridge and with Agere Systems in California. He holds a Masters degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, a M.Sc(Physics) and B.E(Electrical & Electronics) degrees from BITS Pilani, India.

Dr Ihsen Alouani – Ihsen is a Senior Lecturer at Queens University Belfast. My research vision is towards creating trustworthy intelligent systems. The trustworthiness includes Machine Learning security, user data privacy, fairness and low environmental fingerprint.

Dr Greg Chadwick – Greg is the digital design lead at lowRISC where he works on OpenTitan, the Ibex RISC-V CPU and the Sunburst CHERIoT evaluation platform projects. Previously to lowRISC he worked on CPU design at Arm and GPU design at Broadcom.

Luca Wilke -Luca is a senior PhD student at the Institute for IT-Security at the University of Lübeck in the group of Thomas Eisenbarth. His research interests include System Security, especially Trusted Execution Environments like AMD SEV, Intel TDX&SGX, and Keystone.

Peiyao Sun – Peiyao is a Research Fellow in Cyber Security Research at the University of Southampton. He developed run-time detection techniques for Hardware Trojan in CNN hardware accelerators. His current research interests include IoT security, FPGAs, hardware security, machine learning, and deep learning.

Getting there

https://www.edgbastonparkhotel.com/location/

Edgbaston Park Hotel
53 Edgbaston Park Rd
Birmingham
B15 2RS
United Kingdom