SUSHI 2026

Sustainable Hardware Security (SUSHI’26),
co-located with ICCAD’26

NOVEMBER 8-12, 2026

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA, San Jose Marriott

301 S Market St, San Jose, CA 95113​

Our Mission

SUSHI is a collaborative workshop focused on enhancing security in electronic design through expert dialogues and innovative research.

The workshop seeks to bring together leading researchers and experts from academia, industry, and government to foster knowledge exchange, generate innovative ideas, and engage in discussions on current challenges and future research directions.

In the AI era, trustworthy and secure hardware is becoming increasingly critical as intelligent systems are deployed across safety- and mission-critical domains, including critical infrastructure, automotive systems, healthcare, robotics, and space systems. The growing integration of AI accelerators and complex hardware–software stacks introduces new security challenges that must be addressed from the earliest stages of system design.

Key themes include security-by-design approaches for hardware, scalable assurance methodologies, security for AI-enabled and cyber-physical systems, and the integration of security considerations into electronic design automation (EDA).

SUSHI Workshop Agenda
Workshop program

Agenda

Ideas, insights, and conversations shaping the future of electronic design security.

08:30–17:00 programTwo featured panelsIndustry and research perspectives

Morning 08:30–12:00

08:30

Opening

Welcome

09:00

Industry spotlight — AMD

Title TBD

Speaker
  • PJPrabhu JayannaAMD
09:30

Industry spotlight — Cadence

Title TBD

Speaker
  • JMJeremy MuldavinCadence
10:00

Coffee break

10:30

Featured panel

Automotive, Healthcare & Hyperscalers

Panelist
  • KSKaushal SaxenaWaymo

Moderator and additional panelists to be announced.

12:00

Lunch break

Afternoon 13:30–17:00

13:30

Industry spotlight — Keysight / Riscure

Title TBD

Speaker
  • MMMatt MarcmanKeysight / Riscure
14:00

Invited talk

Title TBD

Speaker
  • WSWarren Savage
14:30

Industry spotlight — Synopsys / Ansys

Title TBD

Speaker
  • LLLang LinSynopsys / Ansys
15:00

Invited talk (tentative)

Title TBD

Speaker
  • RARob AitkenParticipation to be confirmed
15:30

Session TBD

16:00

Featured panel

Rethinking Firmware Security in the AI Era

Moderator
  • GVGuru VenkataramaniGeorge Washington University
Panelists
  • SRSanjay RekhiNIST
  • BMBernard McScheaThe Aerospace Corporation
  • SRSayak RayIntel
  • HHHouman HomayounUC Davis
17:00

Closing

Closing remarks

Program note: Sessions marked tentative or to be announced are pending confirmation. Agenda subject to change.

Organizing Committee


Jay Rekhi

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Jeyavijayan Rajendran

Texas A&M University, USA

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

TU Darmstadt, Germany

Gang Qu

University of Maryland

Steering committee

Srini Devadas, MIT

Farinaz Koushanfar, UCSD

Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Texas A&M

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, TU Darmstadt

Gang Qu, UMDCliff Wang, NSF

Contact

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi ahmad.sadeghi@trust.tu-darmstadt.de

Jeyavijayan “JV” Rajendran jv.rajendran@tamu.edu

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