Amro Awad

Biography

Amro Awad joined the ECE Department of NC State University in Fall 2020. Before joining NC State, he was an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF) for three years. Prior to joining academia, he was a senior member of technical staff (SMTS) at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He has earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from NC State in 2016. Dr. Awad had several research stints at government and industrial research labs, such as AMD Research, Los Alamos National Lab, HP Labs, and Air Force Research Laboratory. He holds six U.S. patents and has several pending.

His research has been published in the most prestigious computer architecture conferences, such as ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, and HPCA. His research group has been funded by DARPA, Sandia National Laboratories, NSF, Naval Surface Warfare Center, and Air Force Research Lab. His research interests include secure hardware architectures, memory systems, and system-level integration of emerging technologies.

Education

• Ph.D. 2016
  Computer Engineering
  North Carolina State University, Raleigh
• Master's
  Computer Engineering
  North Carolina State University, Raleigh
• Bachelor's 2011
  Jordan University of Science and Technology
  Computer Engineering

Recent Publications

• CryptoMMU: Enabling Scalable and Secure Access Control of Third-Party Accelerators (2023)
• D-Shield: Enabling Processor-side Encryption and Integrity Verification for Secure NVMe Drives (2023)
• ERAS: A Flexible and Scalable Framework for Seamless Integration of RTL Models with Structural Simulation Toolkit (2023)
• HMT: A Hardware-centric Hybrid Bonsai Merkle Tree Algorithm for High-performance Authentication (2023)
• Plutus: Bandwidth-Efficient Memory Security for GPUs (2023)
• SS-AXI: Secure and Safe Access Control Mechanism for Multi-Tenant Cloud FPGAs (2023)
• Thoth: Bridging the Gap Between Persistently Secure Memories and Memory Interfaces of Emerging NVMs (2023)
• A Keylogging Inference Attack on Air-Tapping Keyboards in Virtual Environments (2022)
• ARES: Persistently Secure Non-Volatile Memory with Processor-transparent and Hardware-friendly Integrity Verification and Metadata Recovery (2022)
• ATHENA: Enabling Codesign for Next-Generation AI/ML Architectures (2022)