The 8th Workshop on Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security
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Over the past two decades, research in hardware and embedded security has yielded thousands of papers and more than a dozen high quality conferences and workshops dedicated to hardware security. Many of the techniques are being adopted by industry, (e.g., side-channel resistance techniques). Many have led to interesting intellectual contributions which impact go beyond hardware research community (e.g, physical-unclonable functions). The first workshop on Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security (Top Picks) was founded and co-located with ICCAD in 2018 to highlight the works that have made the greatest intellectual contributions. Since then, we have organized this workshop annually and co-located with ICCAD including the years when ICCAD was held virtually or abroad. We would like to continue this tradition by proposing Top Picks 2026.
Papers that appeared in the leading security conference in the past six years will be invited to submit. A 2-page self-nomination letter is required to summarize key ideas and contributions of the paper, state the impacts that the paper has already made, and articulate how it will continue to influence the research community and industry.
A program committee will review these submissions and select 10-15 papers for oral presentations. We require the presenters to be an senior author/co-author to enable a high quality presentation and discussion session after the presentation.
After the workshop, an ad hoc committee from the program committee and senior attendees of the workshop will choose 4-8 winners of Top Picks. The winners will be invited to contribute to a special issue in IEEE Design & Test magazine.
The co-founder of Top Picks workshop are:
Ramesh Karri, New York University
Gang Qu, University of Maryland College Park
Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran, Texas A&M University
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, TU Darmstadt