Intel University Program Team Visits STAM Center at ASU

The STAM Center at Arizona State University hosted the university program team from Intel Corporation for a visit focused on ongoing research and experimental platforms.

The discussion centered on how the center studies system behavior under real conditions. Rather than relying on isolated benchmarks, the work looks at how information leakage, faults, and large-scale interactions emerge in complete systems, and how those effects can be measured and mitigated. The same perspective extends to AI system security, where model behavior is evaluated in the context of the underlying hardware and execution environment.

The visit also highlighted the center’s microelectronics training program. Intel FPGA platforms are used not only for research but also in the classroom, where students build and evaluate systems as part of courses in computer architecture and hardware security. This creates a direct link between training and research, with students working on the same class of problems and platforms used in the lab.

Across both research and education, access to these platforms allows the center to move quickly from idea to implementation, testing designs under realistic conditions and producing results that reflect how systems behave in practice.