Hovav Shacham
Adjunct Professor
Hovav Shacham joined The University of Texas at Austin in 2018. His research interests are in applied cryptography, systems security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and technology policy. Shacham was a student at Stanford and a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute. From 2007 to 2018, he was on the faculty at UCSD. His work has been recognized with four “test-of-time” awards, including one at ACM CCS 2017 for his 2007 paper that introduced return-oriented programming. Shacham took part in California’s 2007 “Top-to-Bottom” voting systems review. His work has been cited by the National Academies, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the RAND Corporation.
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Dr. Shacham's current research focuses on applied cryptography, systems security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and technology policy.
Select Publications
. Aug. 2016. “Trusted Browsers for Uncertain Times”. USENIX Security.
. October 2016. “A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident”. ACM CCS.
. Aug. 2020. “Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer”. USENIX Security.
. Aug. 2022. “Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86”. USENIX Security.
N. Smith, A. Sharma, J. Renner, D. Thien, F. Brown, H. Shacham, R. Jhala, and D. Stefan. Nov. 2024. “Icarus: Trustworthy Just-In-Time Compilers with Symbolic Meta-Execution.” SOSP.
Awards & Honors
- 2017 - Communications of the ACM Research Highlight
- 2017 - IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
- 2017 - ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award
- 2019 - ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award
- 2020 - IEEE Security and Privacy (“Oakland”) Test-of-Time Award
- 2022 - IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
- 2023 - IEEE Micro Top Pick
- 2024 - Crypto Test-of-Time Award