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Dr Khurram Bhatti has joined the University of Exeter, UK, as an Associate Professor (Education & Research) in Cybersecurity. He is a member of the Security & Trust of Advanced Systems research group at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Environment, Science & Economy of the University of Exeter, UK. He is a Marie-Curie Research Fellow with interdisciplinary research interests. His main research work focuses extensively in the domain of Embedded Systems and Information security with a particular focus on Microarchitectural security vulnerabilities.

Khurram has done his post doctoral research at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and MS in Embedded Systems from the University Cote d'Azur, Nice, France.

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Publications

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2023

• Siddique MA, Basit A, Qayyum N, Naseer E, Bhatti MK, Minchew B, Ali M, Perez CS, Marino A. (2023) Towards Automated Monitoring Of Glacial Lakes In Hindu Kush And Himalayas Using Deep Learning, IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 16th - 21st Jul 2023, IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, DOI:10.1109/igarss52108.2023.10281471. [PDF]
• Farooq U, Baig I, Bhatti MK, Mehrez H, Kumar A, Gupta M. (2023) Prototyping using multi-FPGA platform: A novel and complete flow, MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS, volume 96, article no. ARTN 104751, DOI:10.1016/j.micpro.2022.104751. [PDF]

2022

• Naseer E, Basit A, Bhatti MK, Siddique MA. (2022) Machine Learning for Area-Wide Monitoring of Surface Level Concentration of NO₂ Using Remote Sensing Data, 2022 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering (ETECTE), 2nd - 4th Dec 2022, 2022 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering (ETECTE), DOI:10.1109/etecte55893.2022.10007417. [PDF]
• Lorido-Botran T, Bhatti MK. (2022) ImpalaE: Towards an optimal policy for efficient resource management at the edge, Journal of Edge Computing, volume 1, no. 1, pages 43-54, DOI:10.55056/jec.572. [PDF]
• Mushtaq M, Yousaf MM, Bhatti MK, Lapotre V, Gogniat G. (2022) The Kingsguard OS-level mitigation against cache side-channel attacks using runtime detection, ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS, volume 77, no. 11-12, pages 731-747, DOI:10.1007/s12243-021-00906-3. [PDF]
• Basit A, Siddique MA, Bhatti MK, Sarfraz MS. (2022) Comparison of CNNs and Vision Transformers-Based Hybrid Models Using Gradient Profile Loss for Classification of Oil Spills in SAR Images, REMOTE SENSING, volume 14, no. 9, article no. ARTN 2085, DOI:10.3390/rs14092085. [PDF]
• Javed S, Mukhtar MA, Bhatti MK, Gogniat G. (2022) Novel Design for IE-Cache to Mitigate Conflict-based Cache-side Channel Attacks with Reduced Energy Consumption, SECRYPT : PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY, pages 675-680, DOI:10.5220/0011326700003283. [PDF]
• Basit A, Bhatti MK, Ali M, Fatima T, Minchew B, Siddique MA. (2022) DEEP LEARNING FOR MONITORING GLACIAL LAKES FORMATION USING SENTINEL 2 MULTISPECTRAL DATA, 2022 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS 2022), pages 179-182, DOI:10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883150. [PDF]

2021

• Mushtaq M, Novo D, Bruguier F, Benoit P, Bhatti MK. (2021) Transit-Guard: An OS-based Defense Mechanism Against Transient Execution Attacks, 2021 IEEE EUROPEAN TEST SYMPOSIUM (ETS 2021), DOI:10.1109/ETS50041.2021.9465429. [PDF]
• Idrees M, Maqbool MM, Bhatti MK, Rahman MMU, Hafiz R, Shafique M. (2021) An approximate-computing empowered green 6G downlink, PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION, volume 49, article no. ARTN 101444, DOI:10.1016/j.phycom.2021.101444. [PDF]

2020

• Mushtaq M, Bricq J, Bhatti MK, Akram A, Lapotre V, Gogniat G, Benoit P. (2020) WHISPER: A Tool for Run-Time Detection of Side-Channel Attacks, IEEE ACCESS, volume 8, pages 83871-83900, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2988370. [PDF]
• Mukhtar MA, Mushtaq M, Bhatti MK, Lapotre V, Gogniat G. (2020) FLUSH plus PREFETCH: A countermeasure against access-driven cache-based side-channel attacks, JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE, volume 104, article no. ARTN 101698, DOI:10.1016/j.sysarc.2019.101698. [PDF]
• Akram A, Mushtaq M, Bhatti MK, Lapotre V, Gogniat G. (2020) Meet the Sherlock Holmes' of Side Channel Leakage: A Survey of Cache SCA Detection Techniques, IEEE ACCESS, volume 8, pages 70836-70860, DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2980522. [PDF]
• Mushtaq M, Mukhtar MA, Lapotre V, Bhatti MK, Gogniat G. (2020) Winter is here! A decade of cache-based side-channel attacks, detection & mitigation for RSA, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, volume 92, article no. ARTN 101524, DOI:10.1016/j.is.2020.101524. [PDF]

2019

• Oz I, Bhatti MK, Popov K, Brorsson M. (2019) Regression-Based Prediction for Task-Based Program Performance, JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS, volume 28, no. 4, article no. ARTN 1950060, DOI:10.1142/S0218126619500609. [PDF]
• Mukhtar MA, Bhatti MK, Gogniat G. (2019) Architectures for Security: A comparative analysis of hardware security features in Intel SGX and ARM TrustZone, 2019 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION, COMPUTING AND DIGITAL SYSTEMS (C-CODE), pages 299-304, DOI:10.1109/c-code.2019.8680982. [PDF]
• Mushtaq M, Akram A, Bhatti MK, Ali U, Lapotre V, Gogniat G. (2019) Sherlock Holmes of Cache Side-Channel Attacks in Intel's x86 Architecture, 2019 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORK SECURITY (CNS), pages 64-72. [PDF]

2018

• Bhatti MK, Oz I, Amin S, Mushtaq M, Farooq U, Popov K, Brorsson M. (2018) Locality-aware task scheduling for homogeneous parallel computing systems, COMPUTING, volume 100, no. 6, pages 557-595, DOI:10.1007/s00607-017-0581-6. [PDF]
• Farooq U, Mehrez H, Bhatti MK. (2018) Inter-FPGA interconnect topologies exploration for multi-FPGA systems, DESIGN AUTOMATION FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, volume 22, no. 1-2, pages 117-140, DOI:10.1007/s10617-018-9207-2. [PDF]
• Mushtaq M, Akram A, Bhatti MK, Chaudhry M, Yousaf M, Farooq U, Lapotre V, Gogniat G. (2018) Machine Learning For Security: The Case of Side-Channel Attack Detection at Run-time, 2018 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONICS, CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (ICECS), pages 485-488. [PDF]
• Mushtaq M, Akram A, Bhatti MK, Bin Rais RN, Lapotre V, Gogniat G. (2018) Run-time Detection of Prime plus Probe Side-Channel Attack on AES Encryption Algorithm, 2018 GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM (GIIS). [PDF]
• Mushtaq M, Akram A, Bhatti MK, Chaudhry M, Lapotre V, Gogniat G. (2018) NIGHTs-WATCH: A Cache-Based Side-Channel Intrusion Detector using Hardware Performance Counters, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT FOR SECURITY AND PRIVACY (HASP '18), DOI:10.1145/3214292.3214293. [PDF]

2016

• Aslam MH, Farooq U, Awais MN, Bhatti MK, Shehzad N. (2016) Exploring the Effect of LUT Size on the Area and Power Consumption of a Novel Memristor-Transistor Hybrid FPGA Architecture, ARABIAN JOURNAL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, volume 41, no. 8, pages 3035-3049, DOI:10.1007/s13369-016-2068-8. [PDF]

2012

• Bhatti MK, Belleudy C, Auguin M. (2012) A semi-partitioned real-time scheduling approach for periodic task systems on multicore platforms, SAC 2012: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, DOI:10.1145/2245276.2232032. [PDF]

2011

• Bhatti MK, Belleudy C, Auguin M. (2011) Hybrid power management in real time embedded systems: an interplay of DVFS and DPM techniques, REAL-TIME SYSTEMS, volume 47, no. 2, pages 143-162, DOI:10.1007/s11241-011-9116-y. [PDF]

2010

• Bhatti MK, Belleudy C, Auguin M. (2010) An inter-task real time DVFS scheme for multiprocessor embedded systems, 2010 Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP), 26th - 28th Oct 2010, 2010 Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP), DOI:10.1109/dasip.2010.5706257. [PDF]
• Bhatti MK, Farooq M, Belleudy C, Auguin M, Mbarek O. (2010) Assertive Dynamic Power Management (AsDPM) Strategy for Globally Scheduled RT Multiprocessor Systems, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM DESIGN: POWER AND TIMING MODELING, OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION, volume 5953, pages 116-126. [PDF]

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