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(10) "Cognitive and Scalable Technique for Securing IoT Networks Against Malware Epidemics".Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Xiaojie Guo, Hossein Sayadi, Cameron Nowzari, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad,Liang Zhao, Houman Homayoun IEEE Access Journal 2020.Click Here.
(9) "Securing IoT Networks Against Malware Epidemics".Hossein Sayadi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Xiaojie Guo, Setareh Rafatirad, IEEE Access Journal 2019.
(8) "System and Architecture Level Characterization of Big Data Applications on Big and Little Core Server Architectures". Maria Malik, Katayoun Neshatpour, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, (TOMPECS) 2018. Click Here.
(7) "Programmable Gates Using Hybrid CMOS-STT Design to Prevent IC Reverse Engineering". Ted Winograd, Gaurav Shenoy, Hassan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi,Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Special issue on Internet of Things System Performance, Reliability,and Security, TODAES 2018.Click Here.
(6) "Hardware Accelerated Mappers for Hadoop MapReduce Streaming". Katayoun Neshatpour,Maria Malik, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad,Houman Homayoun. IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems, 2018.Click Here.
(5) "Optimal Allocation of Computation and Communication in an IoT Network". Abhimanyu Chopra, Hakan Aydin, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2018. Click Here.
(4) "Energy-Efficient Acceleration of MapReduce Applications Using FPGAs". Katayoun Neshatpour, Maria Malik, Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Special Issue on Systems for Learning, Inferencing, and Discovering (SLID), 2018. Click Here.
(3) "Hadoop Workloads Characterization for Performance and Energy Efficiency Optimizations on Microservers". Maria Malik, Katayoun Neshatpour,Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems, (TMSCS) 2018. Click Here.
(2) "Big vs Little Core for Energy-Efficient Hadoop Computing". Maria Malik, Katayoun Neshatpour, Setareh Rafatirad, Rajiv V Joshi, Houman Homayoun, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2017. Click Here.
(1) "A comprehensive study of visual event computing". WeiQi Yan, Declan F. Kieran, Setareh Rafatirad , Ramesh Jain. Multimedia Tools and Applications, MTAP 2010.

Conference Papers

(56) "Ontology-Driven Framework for Trend Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Impacts in IoT Hardware" , Charan Bandi, Rakibul Hassan, Soheil Salehi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Houman Homayoun , Setareh Rafatirad, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2021.
(55) "A Cognitive SAT to SAT-Hard Clause Translation-based Logic Obfuscation" , Rakibul Hassan, Setareh Rafatirad,Houman Homayoun, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, DATE 2021.
(54) "HybriDG: Hybrid Dynamic Time Wrapping and Gaussian Distribution Model for Detecting Emerging Zero-day Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks" , Han Wang, Setareh Rafatirad,Houman Homayoun. International Conference in Machine Learning Applications, ICMLA 2020.
(53) "SATConda: SAT to SAT-Hard Clause Translator" , Rakibul Hassan, Gaurav Kolhe, Setareh Rafatirad,Houman Homayoun, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, 2020 21st International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). IEEE, 2020. Click Here.
(52) "Entropy-Shield: Side-Channel Entropy Maximization for Timing-based Side-Channel Attacks". Abhijitt Dhavlle, Raj Mehta, Setareh Rafatirad,Houman Homayoun, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao , 2020 21st International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). IEEE, 2020. Click Here.
(51) "Scarf: Detecting side-channel attacks at real-time using low-level hardware features". Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Setareh Rafatirad,Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, 2020 IEEE 26th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS). IEEE, 2020. Click Here.
(50) "Recent Advancements in Microarchitectural Security: Review of Machine Learning Countermeasures". Hossein Sayadi, Han Wang, Tahereh Miari, Hosein M. Makrani, Mehrdad Aliasgari, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. 2020 IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS). IEEE, 2020. Click Here.
(49) "Using Transfer Learning Approach to Implement Convolutional Neural Network model to Recommend Airline Tickets by Using Online Reviews". Maryam Heidari, Setareh Rafatirad, 15th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization, SMA. IEEE, 2020. Click Here.
(48) "StealthMiner: Specialized Time Series Machine Learning for Run-Time Stealthy Malware Detection based on Microarchitectural Features". Hossein Sayadi, Yifang Gao, Hosein M. Makrani, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Jessica Lin, Houman Homayoun, Proceedings of the 2020 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. 2020. Click Here.
(47) "Comprehensive Evaluation of Machine Learning Countermeasures for Detecting Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks". Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Houman Homayoun. Proceedings of the 2020 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. 2020. Click Here.
(46) "Estimating the Circuit Deobfuscating Runtime based on Graph Deep Learning". AZhiqian Chen, Gaurav Kolhe, Chang-Tien Lu, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao , Houman Homayoun , Liang Zhao, Setareh Rafatirad. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, DATE 2020. Click Here.
(45) "Mitigating Cache-Based Side-Channel Attacks through Randomization: A Comprehensive System and Architecture Level Analysis". Han Wang, Hossein Sayadi, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Liang Zhao, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Setareh Rafatirad. Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2020. Click Here.
(44) "RNN-based Classifier to Detect Stealthy Malware using Localized Features and Complex Symbolic Sequence", Sanket Shukla, Gaurav Kolhe, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad. International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. ICMLA 2019. Click Here.
(43) "Pyramid: Machine Learning Framework to Estimate the Optimal Timing and Resource Usage of a High-Level Synthesis Design". Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Farnoud Farahmand, Hossein Sayadi, Sara Bondi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Liang Zhao, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad . 29th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2019. Click Here.
(42) "Design Space Exploration for Hardware Acceleration of Machine Learning Applications in MapReduce", Katayoun Neshatpour, Hosein Makrani, Avesta Sasan, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Setareh Rafaitrad and Houman Homayoun, IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2019. Click Here.
(41) "A+Tuning: Architecture+Application Auto-tuning for In-Memory Data-Processing Frameworks", Han Wang, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun, ICPADS 2019. Click Here.
(40) "CHASE: A Customized Time Series Machine Learning Approach for Hardware-Based Stealthy Malware Detection", Hossein Sayadi, Yifeng Gao, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Sai Manoj P D, Avesta Sasan, Jessica Lin, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2019.
(39) "Stealthy Malware Detection using RNN-based Automated Localized Feature Extraction and Classifier", Sanket Shukla, Gaurav Kolhe, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad. International Conference on Tools and Artificial Intelligence. ICTAI 2019. Click Here.
(38) "MicroArchitectural Events and Image Processing-based Hybrid Approach for Robust Malware Detection", Sanket Shukla, Gaurav Kolhe, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad. International Conference on Compilers, Architecture,and Synthesis for Embedded Systems. CASES-ESWEEK 2019.
(37) "Sequence-Crafter: Side-Channel Entropy Minimization to Thwart Timing-based Side-Channel Attacks", Abhijitt Dhavlle, Sahil Bhat, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao. International Conference on Compilers, Architecture,and Synthesis for Embedded Systems. CASES-ESWEEK 2019.
(36) "Deep Multi-attributed Graph Translation with Node-Edge Co-evolution", Xiaojie Guo, Liang Zhao, Cameron Nowzari, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun, and Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. ICDM 2019. (Best Paper Award ). Click Here.
(35) "Security and Complexity Analysis of LUT-based Obfuscation: From Blueprint to Reality". Gaurav Kolhe, Hadi Mardani Kamali, Miklesh Naicker, Tyler David Sheaves , Hamid Mahmoodi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2019. (Best Paper Award Nominee ).
(34) "Lightweight Node-level Malware Detection and Network-level Malware Confinement in IoT Networks". Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Cameron Nowzari, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun. Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2019. Click Here.
(33) "2SMaRT: A Two-Stage Machine Learning-Based Approach for Run-Time Specialized Hardware-Assisted Malware Detection". Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2019. Click Here.
(32) "XPPE: Cross-Platform Performance Estimation of Hardware Accelerators Using Machine Learning". Hosein Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Sara Bondi, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASPDAC 2019. Click Here.
(31 "Mitigating the Performance and Quality of Parallelized Compressive Sensing Reconstruction Using Image Stitching". Mahmoud Namazi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Zhi Tian, Setareh Rafatirad, Mohamad Hosein Akbari, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun. Proceedings of the 2019 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. ACM, 2019. Click Here.
(30) "On Custom LUT-based Obfuscation". Gaurav Kolhe, Sai Manoj PD, Setareh Rafatirad, Hamid Mahmoodi, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun. Proceedings of the 2019 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. ACM, 2019. Click Here.
(29) "Adversarial Attack on Microarchitectural Events based Malware Detectors". Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Sairaj Amberkar, Sahil Bhat, Abhijitt Dhavlle, Hossein Sayadi, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Setareh Rafatirad. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference. DAC 2019. Click Here.
(28) "Customized machine learning-based hardware-assisted malware detection in embedded devices".Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Makrani, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering. TrustCom/BigDataSE 2018. Click Here.
(27) "Ensemble Learning for Effective Hardware-Based Malware Detection: A Comprehensive Analysis and Classification". Hossein Sayadi, Nisarg Patel, Sai Manoj P. D., Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun.ACM/IEEE 55th Design Automation Conference. (DAC 2018). Click Here.
(26) "Efficient Utilization of Adversarial Training towards Robust Machine Learners and its Analysis". Sai Manoj P D, Sairaj Amberkar, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, Special Session (ICCAD 2018).
(25) "Hardware-Assisted Security: Understanding Security Vulnerabilities, Emerging Attacks and Existing Defenses". Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Ferdinand Brasser, Lucas Davi, Abhijitt Dhavlle, Tommaso Frassetto, Setareh Rafatirad, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Hossein Sayadi, and Shaza Zeitouni, Houman Homayoun. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES 2018.
(24) "Main-Memory Requirements of Big Data Applications on Commodity Server Platform". Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun. 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, (CCGRID 2018).
(23) "Energy-aware and Machine Learning-based Resource Provisioning of In-Memory Analytics on Cloud". Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Devang Motwani, Han Wang, Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2018 (SoCC 2018)
(22) "Comprehensive Assessment of Run-Time Hardware-Supported Malware Detection Using General and Ensemble Learning". Hossein Sayadi, Sai Manoj, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF 2018).
(21) "Architectural Considerations for FPGA Acceleration of Machine Learning Applications in MapReduce". Katayoun Neshatpour,Hosein Mohammadi Mokrani, Avesta Sasan, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. International Symposium on Systems, Systems, Architectures, Modeling and Simulation. SAMOS XVIII 2018, Samos, Greece.
(20) "A comprehensive Memory Analysis of Data Intensive Workloads on Server Class Architecture". Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarra, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. The International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS 2018).
(19) "Compressive Sensing on Storage Data: An Effective Solution to Alleviate I/O Bottleneck in Data Intensive Workloads". ”. Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. The 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2018).
(18) "Advances and throwbacks in hardware-assisted security: special session". Ferdinand Brasser, Lucas Davi, Abhijitt Dhavlle, Tommaso Frassetto, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Avesta Sasan, Hossein Sayadi, Shaza Zeitouni, Houman Homayoun. International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems. CASES 2018. Click Here.
(17) "Understanding the Role of Memory Subsystem on Performance and Energy-Efficiency of Hadoop Applications". Hosein Makrani, Shahab Tabatabaei, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. The Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, IGSC 2017. Click Here.
(16) "Characterizing Hadoop applications on microservers for performance and energy efficiency optimizations". Maria Malik, Avesta Sasan, Rajiv Joshi, Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun, ISPASS 2016. Click Here.
(15) "Big Biomedical Image Processing Hardware Acceleration: A Case Study for K-means and Image Filtering". Katayoun Neshatpour, Arezou Koohi, Maria Malik, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun.IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS) 2016. Click Here.
(14) "Hardware Acceleration of Big Biomedical Data Computing". Katayoun Neshatpour, Arezou Koohi, Maria Malik, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun.IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2016.
(13) "System and Architecture Level Characterization of Big Data Applications on Big and Little Core Server Architectures". Maria Malik, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun. IEEE BigData 2015.
(12) "Personalized Storytelling Using Photo-Sharing Applications". Setareh Rafatirad, Technical Report, TC-GMU-1114, 2014.
(11) "Context Correlation Using Probabilistic Semantics". Setareh Rafatirad, Kathryn Laskey, Paulo Costa. 8th International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security, STIDS 2013. Click Here.
(10) "Context-based Event Ontology Extension in Multimedia Applications". Setareh Rafatirad, Ramesh Jain, Kathyryn Laskey, seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2013. Click Here.
(9) "Transforming Personal Artifacts into Probabilistic Narratives". Setareh Rafatirad, Kathryn Laskey. Workshop on Big Data meet Complex Model in conjunction with The 29th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAIW 2013. Click Here.
(8) "Contextual Augmentation of Ontology for Multimedia Applications". (Doctoral dissertation). Setareh Rafatirad, Available from ProQuest Dissertation and Theses database. (Order No. 11904), 2012. Click Here.
(7) "Contextual Event Ontology Extension for Multimedia Applications" (Doctoral dissertation). Setareh Rafatirad. Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database. (Order No. 11904), 2012. Click Here.
(6) "Contextual Augmentation of Ontology for Recognizing Sub-Events". Setareh Rafatirad , Ramesh Jain. Workshop on Ontologies for System Integration and Standards in conjunction with The Fifth IEEE International Conference On Semantic Computing, IEEE-ICSC 2011. Click Here.
(5) "Extractable Mobile Photo Tags". Ramesh Jain, Mingyan Gao, Setareh Rafatirad, Pinaki Sinha. International Workshop on Mobile Location-Based Service, MLBS 2011. Click Here.
(4) "Event Composition Operators: ECO". Setareh Rafatirad , Amarnath Gupta and Ramesh Jain. ACM international Workshop on Events in Multimedia, ACM-EiMM 2009. Click Here.
(3) "MEDIALIFE: from images to a life chronicle". Amarnath Gupta, Setareh Rafatirad, Mingyan Gao , Ramesh Jain. SIGMOD 2009. Click Here.
(2) "Thread Scheduling Based on Low Quality Instruction Prediction for Simultaneous Multithreaded processors". Houman Homayoun, Kin F.Li, Setareh Rafatirad. IEEE-NEWCAS 2005. Click Here.
(1) "Functional Unit Power gating in Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors". Houman Homayoun, Kin F.Li , Setareh Rafatirad. IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, IEEE-PACRIM 2005. Click Here.