Secure, Trusted, and Assured Microelectronics (STAM) Center
The STAM Center investigates new technologies and methodologies to offer opportunities for designing secure computing devices and systems that go beyond what is currently achievable. The center couples its research mission with active recruiting and training of students, especially domestic students, targeting applications of national security importance.
The center conducts fundamental research in three technical areas meant to establish the foundation for future secure and trusted semiconductor/ microelectronics technologies: (1) new substrates, synthesis, and fabrication, (2) new computing paradigms and architectures, and (3) integrated sensing, edge computing, and secure communications.
CENTER TECHNICAL AREAS
Researchers and students at the center investigate, design and prototype application-aware processors and embedded systems with cybersecurity compliance, technology transfer and field tests readiness in mind. The team uses a multidisciplinary and integrative approach consisting of algorithmic optimization, design flow automation, hardware-firmware co-development and prototyping. The center is organized in six research laboratories – two technology laboratories (SemiSec Laboratory and LUCS), and four application laboratories (ASCS Laboratory, AITS Laboratory, CAES Laboratory, and SECPS Laboratory).
Semiconductor Security
Semiconductor Security (SemiSEC) Laboratory: Zero-Trust IC Fabrication, Age-related IC Failures and Security, Supply Chain Trust Challenges, Secure-by-Construction IC Design
Unconventional Substrates
Laboratory for Unconventional Computing Substrates (LUCS): Approximate Computing, Cryogenics Computing, Quantum Computing, Secure Bio-Microelectronics
Adaptive and Secure Systems
Adaptive and Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) Laboratory: Situation-Aware Computing, Post-Quantum Security, Self-Healing Systems
Private and Secure AI
Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems (AITS) Laboratory: Privacy-Preserving AI/ML Systems Secure ML Hardware Accelerators Real-Time/Low-power ML Engines
Computer Architecture
Computer Architecture & Embedded Systems (CAES) Laboratory: Trusted Execution Environment Architecture, Enclave-Driven Architecture, Secure High-Performance Computing Architecture, Graph Processor Design.
Secure & Resilient Systems
Secure & Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems (SECPS) Laboratory: Physically-Distributed Systems and Infrastructures, Sharing Confidential Information in IoT Systems, Secure Group Anonymous Authentication
Latest Posts
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Shubham Lonkar Defends Master’s Thesis on Cache Compression
As machine learning models grow, moving and storing data efficiently is becoming just as important as performing the computation itself. Shubham Lonkar explored this challenge in his master’s thesis, “Dynamic Cache Compression: Revisiting Compression for Machine Learning Workloads.” His research asks whether processors can make better use of the cache capacity they already have instead of relying on larger physical…
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AMAZE – Recognized as a 2025 Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security
Researchers from the STAM Center have received one of the highest recognitions in the hardware security community. The paper, “AMAZE: Accelerated MiMC Hardware Architecture for Zero-Knowledge Applications on the Edge,” was selected as a 2025 Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security. The Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security workshop is an annual event held in conjunction with the…
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STAM Center Researchers Present Privacy-Preserving SNNs Framework at ACNS
The 24th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2026) was held between the 22nd and 25th of June 2026, at Stony Brook University in New York. As one of the premier international conferences in applied cryptography, cybersecurity, and privacy, ACNS brings together researchers from around the world to present advances in secure computing, applied cryptography, cybersecurity, and…