USC Viterbi and Stevens new faculty: Ajey Jacob (top left), Haowei Shi (top center), Itay Hen (top right), Morley Mao (bottom left), Sasan Razmkhah (bottom center) and Scott Mahlke (bottom right) The USC Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence welcomes six new faculty members whose research advances the frontiers of artificial intelligence, computing and
On-Chip Monitors Detect Bit-Flip Attacks in AI Accelerators (UF, UT Dallas, RPI)
Researchers at the University of Florida, University of Texas at Dallas, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute published a technical paper titled “BARE-AI: Bit-Flip Attack Resilience in AI Hardware through Built-in Performance Monitors.”
Abstract Excerpt:
“Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are integral to many safety critical systems, yet they remain highly vulnerable to bit-flip attacks (BFAs), where a few memory level perturbations can drastically degrade accuracy. Existing defenses incur significant hardware overhead, depend on retraining, or fail against targeted flips. We propose BARE-AI, a runtime framework that detects, localizes, and mitigates BFAs during AI inference.”
Find the technical paper here. October 2026.
Rahaman, Habibur, Swastik Bhattacharya, Sanjay Das, Kanad Basu, and Swarup Bhunia. “BARE-AI: Bit-Flip Attack Resilience in AI Hardware through Built-in Performance Monitors.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.08739 (2026).
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