Mohammadkazem Taram
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
23
Citations
487
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
10
Publishing since 2016
Mohammadkazem Taram works on computer hardware security, focusing on how processor-level features like speculative execution, branch predictors, and micro-op caches can leak sensitive information, and on designing hardware and software defenses against such attacks. Related work explores privacy-preserving machine learning, particularly protecting sensitive data during deep neural network inference, and efficient techniques for hardware-based memory isolation and security enforcement. This research is relevant to students interested in the intersection of computer architecture, systems security, and applied machine learning privacy.
Publication output peaked around 2019-2020 and has since slowed to a lower, more sporadic pace in recent years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Extended User Interrupts (xUI): Fast and Flexible Notification without Polling
2025
- Heterogeneous Memory Benchmarking Toolkit
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
- Hardware-Assisted Fault Isolation: Going Beyond the Limits of Software-Based Sandboxing
IEEE Micro · 2024
- Going beyond the Limits of SFI: Flexible and Secure Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation with HFI
2023
- Half&Half: Demystifying Intel’s Directional Branch Predictors for Fast, Secure Partitioned Execution
2023
- Half&Half: Demystifying Intel’s Directional Branch Predictors for Fast, Secure Partitioned Execution
2023
- Mitigating Speculative Execution Attacks via Context-Sensitive Fencing
IEEE Design and Test · 2022
- I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches
2021
- Not All Features Are Equal: Discovering Essential Features for Preserving Prediction Privacy
2021
- A Principled Approach to Learning Stochastic Representations for Privacy in Deep Neural Inference
2020
- Privacy in Deep Learning: A Survey
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020
- Shredder
2020
- Not All Features Are Equal: Discovering Essential Features for\n Preserving Prediction Privacy
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020
- Packet Chasing: Spying on Network Packets over a Cache Side-Channel
2020
- Context-Sensitive Decoding: On-Demand Microcode Customization for Security and Energy Management
IEEE Micro · 2019
- arXiv (Cornell University)×6
- IEEE Micro×2
- IEEE Design and Test×1
- ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization×1
- Tapti Palit
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Zhiqiang Lin
Computer Science · The Ohio State University
- Congyu Liu
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Charitha Saumya
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Dave Tian
Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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