Doctoral Students Peng-Hao Huang and Nicholas Heinrich-Barna bagged first in the United States and second in the region (US, Middle East, North Africa) at the 2023 Embedded Security Challenge, the oldest hardware security competition in the world and a part of Cybersecurity Awareness Worldwide (CSAW).
The team spent two months solving series of six side-channel attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPS) challenges for event. The competition involved a qualification phase where a research paper was submitted and a competition phase at the end of which each team submitted a final report comprising the qualification report, all the lessons learned, and how they solved all the challenges in detail. The challenge concluded with a final presentation in New York.
Dr. Prasad Enjeti and Dr. Jeyavijayan Rajendran advised and prepared the team for the educational tournament. Students said that the conductive learning environment fostered by their advisors and the encouragement and opportunities for multidisciplinary research at Texas A&M is an intense motivating factor. They recognize the success and shortcomings in their work and hope to improve to become the best in the world. They invite students passionate about security to join their team!
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