Research Seminar Series: OSU’s Dr. Vincent Immler 

From Pay-TV, to the smart grid, voting machines, AI governance, and many more -- there is a need for strong protections even if the adversary is in physical control of the device. In this talk, I will provide a brief review of the field of hardware security and how it pertains to today's challenges in AI governance. In particular, how to provide the strongest possible physical guarantees to prevent extraction of secrets from the hardware. This is part of one of our ongoing research projects for which I will introduce the concept of a Physical Unclonable Function as one of the building blocks that is destined to solve some of the presented challenges. Additional challenges will be presented that are thus far unsolved.

This talk will be complemented by a brief overview of other ongoing work in the PACIFIC Lab (Privacy, Applied Cryptography, Intelligence, and Forensics In Chips) which includes aspects such as efficient testing against a new type of fault-injection attack and better performing True Random Number Generators (TRNGs), both of which are a teaser of recently published papers.