Leveraging My Expertise for Trustworthy and Explainable Detection Systems

1. Advanced Machine Learning for
Hardware Trojan Detection
Leveraging My Expertise for Trustworthy and Explainable Detection Systems
Stanley Wu (Sept. 27, 2023)

2. Introduction
• Hardware Trojans (HTs) and their security implications
• A Hardware Trojan (HT) is a malicious modification made to the circuitry of an
integrated circuit (IC).
• An HT is defined both by its physical representation (how it looks and is structured
within the circuit) and its behavior (what it does when activated)
• Example:
• Side-Channel Attacks
• Power Analysis, Timing Analysis, EM Analysis
• Physical Attacks on Chip IDs
• Extracting secret keys
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Figure Source: "Physical Attack Protection of IC Chips for Hardware Security" by Prof. Makoto Nagata, Kobe University

3. Objective Overview
1. Automated DL-based HT Detection
2. Trustworthiness & Countermeasures
3. 'Self-Aware' & Explainable Framework
4.Integration into EDA Tools
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4. Automated DL-based HT Detection
• Deep Learning (DL) and its advantages in pattern recognition
• Example: use DL algorithm automatically to extract circuit netlists features and then
learns the HT detection models
• TensorFlow aids in the design and implementation of DL-based systems.
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5. Trustworthiness & Countermeasures
• The critical nature of countermeasures against adversarial attacks on DL models.
• I was looking at real-time monitoring of model predictions.
• This continuous oversight further bolsters our defenses, ensuring our Deep Learning
models remain trustworthy.
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6. 'Self-Aware' HT Detection with
Explainable AI
• Explainable AI (XAI) is crucial.
• As we immerse ourselves deeper into the hardware security, a concept that
stands out and demands our attention is 'Self-Aware' Hardware Trojan Detection.
• Artificial Intelligence, especially Deep Learning, often acts as a black box.
• We feed in data, and then we get results, but the internal workings remain
difficult to trace.
• In many complex scenarios, like detecting Hardware Trojans. We need to trust
our tools, and trust comes from understanding.
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7. Integration into EDA Tools
• The value of integrating DL-based HT detection systems into EDA tools.
• As we continue our exploration of advanced hardware security, it becomes
important that our solutions need to be seamlessly integrated into the tools that
shape the very foundation of electronic design: the EDA tools.
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8. Conclusion & Future Work
• Objectives Recap
• Envisioning the future
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9. Questions & Discussion
• Thank you very much for your participation :)
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