I’m a third-year PhD Student in CSE department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
My research interests lie in the field of computer architecture and security, with a particular focus on microarchitectural side-channel attacks and high-performance defenses such as control flow isolation.
I’m advised by Professor Dean Tullsen, and I am also actively collaborating with Professors Deian Stefan and Kazem Taram.
I have engaged in close collaboration with Intel Labs' research team on the HARDEN project, completed a hardware engineering internship at SiFive during the summer of 2022 and am going to join Qualcomm as a CPU architecture research intern in the summer of 2024.
Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor
ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2024.
Hosein Yavarzadeh, Archit Agarwal, Max Christman, Christina Garman, Daniel Genkin, Andrew Kwong, Daniel Moghimi, Deian Stefan, Kazem Taram, Dean Tullsen
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Half&Half: Demystifying Intel's Directional Branch Predictors for Fast, Secure Partitioned Execution
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), May 2023.
Hosein Yavarzadeh, Mohammadkazem Taram, Shravan Narayan, Deian Stefan, Dean Tullsen
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Please do not hesitate to reach out to me at hyavarzadeh@ucsd.edu.