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SiLDA Lab Advances SoC Security with Innovative LLM Technology
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Image credit: Dipayan Saha
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In a continued push for greater hardware security, FICS Associate Director and Wally Rhines Endowed Professor in Hardware Security Dr. Farimah Farahmandi and her team in the SiLDA Lab are transforming System-on-Chip (SoC) security by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into their research. Their aim to address the rising threats associated with complex SoC and to ensure that new vulnerabilities are identified and mitigated effectively. Doctoral students Dipayan Saha and Shams Tarek working with Dr. Farahmandi examine how LLMs are reshaping the field of hardware security by introducing automation, scalability, and adaptability. Case studies and experimental results demonstrate how LLMs significantly enhance both accuracy and efficiency in critical security tasks such as vulnerability and threat (hardware Trojan) detection, vulnerability insertion, and countermeasure development. A key aspect of their recent work is the creation of an extensive security-aware dataset that includes a large collection of vulnerable RTL designs. Traditionally, amassing such data is time-consuming, yet the lab has leveraged LLM-driven techniques to automate and expedite the process. The team not only injected bugs in the designs but also validated the bug injection through formal tools and in-house static tools. These datasets and benchmarks will help the community to build up newer AI-based hardware security frameworks and estimate the performance.
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FICS Research Director appointed as EAI 2024 Fellow
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Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Butler, Director of FICS Research, on being named an EAI Fellow for 2024. The European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) recognizes 34 distinguished academics and researchers from around the globe with this honor. This recognition celebrates their significant contributions to innovation, research, and the EAI community.
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Catia Silva named 2024-2025 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
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Congratulations to Dr. Catia Silva Instructional Assistant Professor in ECE for being honored as the 2024-2025 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, awarded to faculty who excel in the classroom.
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Prabhat Mishra wins Mentoring Award
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CISE to Dr. Prabhat Mishra, Professor in CISE, won recently won the UF Graduate School’s Faculty Doctoral Dissertation Mentoring Award at the University Level. This award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in doctoral dissertation advising.
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