David Kohlbrenner
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Info
I am an Assistant Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.
Previously I was a post-doc
with Dawn
Song and
the ADEPT lab
at UC Berkeley, and did my PhD
with Hovav
Shacham at UC San Diego.
Google Scholar profile
Contact: dkohlbre [at] cs.washington.edu -or- david.kohlbrenner [at] gmail.com

Research
My research interests span software security, systems, and hardware architecture.
I put special focus on the impact of hardware design on high-level software security.
Active projects include:
Next generation microarchitectural side-channels and formal defenses.
FPGA analog side-channels.
The Keystone TEE framework for RISC-V.
Teaching
CSE564 Computer Security and Privacy (Fall 2020)
Previously:
Advanced topics on secure hardware (UC Berkeley)
CSE80 Linux and the Command Lineaka T4CS (UC San Diego)
Conference Publications
Second place at CSAW Applied Research 2016