The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering is organising an Invited Talk by Dr Aditya Japa, Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Derry, UK, on July 04, 2025. He will deliver an insightful session on the topic “Approximate Computing and Hardware Security: Opportunities and Risks”.
Abstract
Approximate computing is an emerging computing paradigm for designing high-performance and energy-efficient systems for a growing class of error-tolerant applications. The uncertain and unpredictable inherent error behaviour of approximate computing introduces new security threats and opportunities to enhance the security of approximate computing. Recent work on the security in/for approximate computing introduces several threat models, ideas of countermeasures, and methodologies. This talk presents recent state-of-the-art work, including threat models in approximate computing and emerging security applications using approximate computing. In addition, potential future directions have been discussed to reap the full benefits of security in/for approximate computing.
About the Speaker
Dr Aditya Japa received a Ph.D. degree in ECE from Dr. SPM IIIT Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, in 2021, with a focus on Emerging Technologies for Hardware security. After his Ph.D., he worked as a Research Fellow with the Centre for Secure Information Technologies, EEECS Department, Queen’s University, Belfast, U.K. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Derry, U.K. He has co-authored one book entitled “Introduction to Microelectronics to Nanoelectronics: Design and Technology” (CRC Press, Nov. 2020). His research mainly focuses on Hardware and System Security. Specifically, he is into the design of PUF and TRNG. He worked on emerging/beyond CMOS-based security strategies, power side-channel analysis, and countermeasures. His current research interests include the design of Intrinsic PUFs for approximate computing and security in/for approximate computing.
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