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Eighty peer-reviewed publications since 2014, including twenty-nine papers at the top-tier venues of computer architecture — ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ASPLOS and PACT — and twelve patents.

Names in bold denote the OSCAR director TOP-TIER VENUE ISCA · MICRO · HPCA · ASPLOS · PACT · ICS · IEEE VR ^ indicates equal contributions
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Patents

Twelve U.S. patents and applications spanning secure persistent memory, TLB management, memory encryption and cryptographic initialisation — ten of them granted.

12

System, method and computer readable medium for file encryption and memory encryption of secure byte-addressable persistent memory and auditing

Amro Awad

Patent Number 11398894B2

Granted
11

Architectural Support for Persistent Applications

Mazen Alwadi, Vamsee Reddy Kommareddy, Clayton Hughes, Simon Hammond, and Amro Awad

Patent Application Number US20230251963A1

Granted
10

System and Method for Ultra-Low Overhead and Recovery Time for Secure Non-Volatile Memories

Amro Awad and Kazi Abu Zubair

Patent Number 11714725

Granted
9

Translation Pinning in Translation Lookaside Buffers

Hussein ElNawawy, Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury and Amro Awad

Filed 02/20/2018

Filed
8

Techniques for Secure Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory Managing

Amro Awad and Mao Ye

Patent Number 11323242

Granted
7

System and Method for a Low-Overhead Access Obfuscation for Trusted Memories

Amro Awad and Yan Solihin

Application No. 15960575 · Filed 04/24/2018

Filed
6

Adaptive extension of leases for entries in a translation lookaside buffer

Amro Awad, Sergey Blagodurov, Arkaprava Basu, Mark H. Oskin, Gabriel H. Loh, Andrew G. Kegel, David S. Christie, Kevin J. McGrath

Patent Number 10261916

Granted
5

Wear-limiting non-volatile memory

Amro Awad and Sergey Blagodurov

Patent Number 10121555

Granted
4

Systems and methods for modeling memory access behavior and memory traffic timing behavior

Yan Solihin, Yipeng Wang and Amro Awad

Patent Number 9846627

Granted
3

Efficiently Storing Initialization Vectors

William G. Horne, Amro J. Awad, Pratyusa K. Manadhata

Filed 09/17/2015

Granted
2

Cryptographic-Based Initialization of Memory Content

Amro Awad, Pratyusa K. Manadhata, Stuart Haber, William G. Horne

Filed 09/30/2015

Granted
1

Using a Memory Controller to Manage Access to a Memory Based on a Memory Initialization State Indicator

Amro Awad, Pratyusa K. Manadhata, William G. Horne

Filed 09/30/2015

Granted