IHSAA24: Intel Corp Hardware Security Academic Award |
Website | https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security/security-practices/security-research/hardware-security-academic-award.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ihsaa23 |
Submission deadline | March 10, 2024 |
Contact | All questions about the CFP should be emailed to the Program Committee at: intel.security.award@intel.com |
Call for Papers: Intel Hardware Security Academic Award
Announcement: CFP submission deadline has been extended to March 10, 2024.
Intel is pleased share the 2024 Intel Hardware Security Academic Award guidelines and invite researchers to submit nominations by March 10, 2024. This prestigious award is part of Intel’s commitment to foster advancements in solutions, tools, and methodologies that enhance the industry’s ability to deliver more secure and trustworthy foundational technologies.
Academic researchers are requested to submit a recently published paper that demonstrates novel research with a meaningful impact on the hardware security ecosystem, including but not limited to Intel’s own products. Researchers may also apply for a special Test of Time award for a paper published at least 10 years ago that has demonstrated significant and lasting impact in the field.
Winners will be recognized in a news release on the online Intel Newsroom and will also be featured on Intel’s Cyber Security Inside podcast. Winners will receive an exclusive invitation to a special event with senior leaders at Intel.
Research Focus Areas
While all recently published papers (January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2023) demonstrating innovative security research in architecture, design, development, and validation that advance product security are welcome, the following focus areas are highly encouraged:
- Use of analytics, machine learning and AI techniques to improve product security capabilities and robustness.
- Innovations in scalable, automated tools and methodologies for hardware design and verification that are effective in addressing common security weaknesses, significantly improving product quality and assurance efficiency.
- Emerging usages, threat analysis, systemic mitigations, and security enhancements that strengthen cloud-to-edge computing, accelerant, and communication solutions.
- Architectural, micro-architecture, and circuit innovations that improve resiliency and reliability of silicon and electronics against transient faults.
- Groundbreaking advancements in foundational security capabilities, including Confidential AI, safety-critical systems, resilience against adversarial behavior, and next generation cryptographic techniques.
- Innovations in “Confidential Manufacturing” methodologies, tools and capabilities to support Intel's IDM 2.0 vision, offering assurance, transparency and a trusted supply chain to the ecosystem.
Who Qualifies
Any full time, tenured or tenure track (or equivalent) faculty member involved in research may make a submission. Intel will not, however, consider submissions by individuals residing in, or affiliated with, an academic institution located in a U.S. Government embargoed country. Intel also will not consider submissions by individuals on a U.S. Government sanctions list, including individuals affiliated with academic institutions on a U.S. Government sanctions list. Intel employees and their immediate family members are eligible to participate as co-authors but not as primary authors. If an Intel employee/immediate family member is a co-author on a winning paper, such co-author is ineligible to receive the prize awards.
Submission Format
All submissions must reflect only completed research which was first published or presented publicly between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023, and that has the potential to be disruptive to product security in the areas outlined above. All submissions must be made using the EasyChair CFP submission system (“EasyChair”) and must include the following information:
- Author information and respective affiliations
- Short write-up with a maximum of 500 words addressing the following items:
- Research focus and techniques
- Brief summary of current state-of-the-art
- Novel contributions
- Potential impact to the industry, ecosystem, and Intel’s products and technologies
- For Test of Time award submissions: Brief examples of lasting impact are highly desired.
- Prior and future relevant work, if applicable
- Alignment with the above-listed “focus categories”
- Prior awards and recognition of the research
- Accepted conference
- For general award submissions: The paper needs to be accepted, peer-reviewed and published or presented publicly between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023.
- For Test of Time award submissions: The paper needs to be published at least 10 years ago.
- Full paper (camera-ready in PDF format, as submitted and accepted to a conference or journal following peer review).
- Curriculum vitae of applicable authors.
Awardees will be selected by the Intel Hardware Security Academic Award Program Committee. The committee will examine, among other factors, the viability, novelty, originality, and relevance of the submissions with a focus on demonstrating significant contribution and impact on the hardware security ecosystem and Intel products. The committee retains full discretion on selection of the award winners, and the awardees will be required to sign an award acceptance letter.
Notifications to finalists are expected by May 2024.
Deadline
All submissions must be fully submitted via the EasyChair system by March 10, 2024, at 11:59 PM PT, in order to be considered.
Additional Terms, Notices, and Disclaimers
Intel’s decisions will be final in all matters relating to this program, including whether to grant an award and the interpretation of these additional terms, notices, and disclaimers and the guidelines above (collectively, “Terms and Conditions”). By making a submission, applicants affirm that they have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions.
- Awards must comply with applicable U.S. and international laws, regulations, and policies.
- Intel is authorized to evaluate submissions, to consult with outside experts, in evaluating submissions, and to grant or deny awards using criteria determined by Intel to be appropriate and at Intel’s sole discretion. Intel’s decisions will be final in all matters relating to this program, and applicants agree not to challenge any such decisions.
- Implementation and management of this program and associated awards is subject to change at any time without notice to applicants or awardees and is at the complete discretion of Intel.
- Awardees are responsible for confirming that acceptance of any awards will not be in violation of any university policy regarding such awards and that acceptance of any award is not in exchange for promotion or influence regarding any of Intel’s commercial activities, products, services, or the adoption of Intel-related standards.
- Neither Intel nor the applicant is obligated to enter into a business transaction as a result of the submission. Intel is under no obligation to review or consider any submission.
- Any information collected as part of this award will be used for the administration of the program. This may include sharing of any submitted information within Intel (and contractors) for purposes of selecting awardees, planning visits, public relations (with prior approval), or other purposes reasonably related to the program. Any information collected is also subject to Intel’s privacy policy found at www.intel.com/privacy.
Notices & Disclaimers
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