Publications

Books and Book chapters
Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Johann Knechtel, Shaloo Rakheja, Ozgur Sinanoglu. “The Next Era in Hardware Security: A Perspective on Emerging Technologies for Secure Electronics.” Springer Nature.
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Journal Publications
Likhitha Mankali, Nikhil Rangarajan, Swetaki Chatterjee, Shubham Kumar, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Hussam Amrouch. “Leveraging Ferroelectric Stochasticity and In-Memory Computing for DNN IP Obfuscation.” IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits (accepted 2022).
DOI: coming soon
Swetaki Chatterjee, Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Yogesh Singh Chauhan. “FerroCoin: Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction-based True Random Number Generator.” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (accepted 2022).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2022.3210401
Nikhil Rangarajan, Johann Knechtel, Nimisha Limaye, Ozgur Sinanoglu and Hussam Amrouch. “A Novel Attack Mode on Advanced Technology Nodes Exploiting Transistor Self-Heating.” IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided-Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (accepted 2022).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2022.3197496
Nimisha Limaye, Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Kanad Basu. “PolyWorm: Leveraging Polymorphic Behavior to Implant Hardware Trojans.” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1443-1455, 1 July-Sept. 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2021.3090060
Nikhil Rangarajan, Johann Knechtel, Dinesh Rajasekharan, and Ozgur Sinanoglu. “SuperVAULT: Superparamagnetic Volatile AUxiLiary Tamper-Proof Storage.” IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 103-106, June 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/LES.2021.3127682
Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Johann Knechtel, Ramesh Karri, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Opening the Doors to Dynamic Camouflaging: Harnessing the Power of Polymorphic Devices.” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 137-156, 1 Jan.-March 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2020.2991134
Dinesh Rajasekharan, Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Yogesh Singh Chauhan. “SCANet: Securing the Weights with Superparamagnetic-MTJ Crossbar Array Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (accepted 2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3130884
Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Shaloo Rakheja. “SMART: A Secure Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnet-Based Tamper-Proof Non-Volatile Memory.” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 76130-76142, 2020.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2988889
Satwik Patnaik, Nikhil Rangarajan, Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Spin-Orbit Torque Devices for Hardware Security: From Deterministic to Probabilistic Regime.” IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided-Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 1591-1606, Aug. 2020.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2019.2917856
Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Shaloo Rakheja. Spin-based Reconfigurable Logic for Power- and Area-Efficient Applications.” IEEE Design and Test, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 22-30, June 2019.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MDAT.2019.2895021
Nikhil Rangarajan, Arun Parthasarathy, and Shaloo Rakheja. “A spin-based true random number generator exploiting the stochastic precessional switching of nanomagnets.” Journal of Applied Physics 121.22 (2017): 223905.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4985702
Nikhil Rangarajan, Arun Parthasarathy, Nickvash Kani, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Energy-Efficient Computing with Probabilistic Magnetic Bits–Performance Modeling and Comparison against Probabilistic CMOS Logic.” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 1-10, Nov. 2017.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2017.2696041
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Conference Publications
Nikhil Rangarajan, Johann Knechtel, Nimisha Limaye, Ozgur Sinanoglu and Hussam Amrouch. “A Novel Attack Mode on Advanced Technology Nodes Exploiting Transistor Self-Heating.” International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES) 2022 (accepted).
DOI: coming soon
Nikhil Rangarajan, Satwik Patnaik, Mohammed Nabeel, Mohammed Ashraf, Shubham Rai, Gopal Raut, Heba Abunahla, Baker Mohammad, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma, Akash Kumar, Johann Knechtel, and Ozgur Sinanoglu. “SCRAMBLE: A Secure and Configurable, Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Hardware Leveraging 3D.” IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2022 (accepted).
DOI: coming soon
Jens Lienig, Susann Rothe, Matthias Thiele, Nikhil Rangarajan, Mohammed Ashraf, Mohammed Nabeel, Hussam Amrouch, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Ramesh Karri, and Johann Knechtel. “Toward Security Closure in the Face of Reliability Effects.” IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2021, pp. 1-9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD51958.2021.9643447
Satwik Patnaik, Nikhil Rangarajan, Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Advancing Hardware Security Using Polymorphic and Stochastic Spin-Hall Effect Devices.” IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2018, (pp. 97-102). IEEE.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE.2018.8341986
Nikhil Rangarajan, Arun Parthasarathy, Nickvash Kani, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Voltage-tunable Stochastic Computing with Magnetic Bits.” IEEE International Magnetics Conference pp. 1-2. IEEE, 2017.
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Preprints
Sebastian Ament, Nikhil Rangarajan, and Shaloo Rakheja. “Solving the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation for monodomain nanomagnets : A survey and analysis of numerical techniques.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04596 (2016).