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
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 – 10:00 | Registration & Tea/Coffee on Arrival |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Opening Remarks |
| 10:10 – 10:50 | Rene Henriquez and Dr Zitai Chen, Amazon Web Services Relentless evaluation of the foundational security of AWS Nitro systems early in the design |
| 10:50 – 11:30 | Dr Shweta Shinde, ETH Zurich Ahoi Attacks: Breaking Confidential VMs with Malicious Interrupts |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Luca Wilke, University of Lübeck Single-Stepping Attacks and Defences for Confidential VMs |
| 12:10 – 13:20 | Lunch & Networking (Posters + Show & Tell) |
| 13:20 – 14:00 | Ranga Desikachari, Crypto Quantique Quantum-Driven crypto primitives at the heart of Hardware Root of Trust (HRoT) |
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Dr Carl Shaw, Codasip How to work with industry |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Break & Networking |
| 15:00 – 15:40 | Prof Simon Moore, University of Cambridge CHERI memory protection: pathways to industrial adoption |
| 15:40 – 16:20 | Prof John Goodenough, University of Sheffield Presentation Title TBC |
| Closing Remarks | |
| 18:00 – 21:00 | Dinner 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 – 09:20 | Tea/Coffee on Arrival |
| 09:20 – 09:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:30 – 10:10 | Dr Greg Chadwick, lowRISC Building secure hardware with Open Silicon at lowRISC |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | RISE 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 – 11:00 | Break & Networking |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | RISE 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 – 12:00 | RISE Project Update for SECCOM: Securing composable hardware platforms Prof John Goodacre, Dr Bernardo Magri, Dr Lucas Cordeiro, University of Manchester |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | UK-US Semiconductor Security Workshop Whitepaper Prof Máire O’Neill |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch & Networking |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | NCSC Problem Book |
| 13:45 – 15:00 | RISE Challenges: Breakout Session & Feedback |
| Closing Remarks | |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | RISE ISAB Meeting (Closed session) |
Our Speakers
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.
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