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 Program

SUSHI’26 Agenda

08:30–17:00 · Program2 · Featured panelsIndustry & research perspectives

Morning

08:30 — 12:00
Opening

Welcome

Industry Spotlight

AMD

Prabhu Jayanna
Industry Spotlight

Cadence

Jeremy Muldavin
Intermission

Coffee Break

Featured Panel

Automotive, Healthcare & Hyperscalers

Kaushal Saxena · Waymo

Moderator and additional panelists to be announced

Intermission

Lunch Break

Afternoon

13:30 — 17:00
Industry Spotlight

Keysight / Riscure

Matt Marcman
Invited Talk

Featured Talk

Warren Savage · Talk title to be announced
Industry Spotlight

Synopsys / Ansys

Lang Lin
Tentative Session

Featured Talk

Rob Aitken · Participation to be confirmed
Schedule Update

Session to be announced

Featured Panel

Rethinking Firmware Security in the AI Era

Guru Venkataramani · GWU
Sanjay Rekhi · NISTBernard McSchea · AerospaceSayak Ray · IntelHouman Homayoun · UC Davis
Closing

Closing Remarks

Program note: Session titles, speakers, and panel details marked as 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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