Publications


Conference Papers


  1. Siloz: Leveraging DRAM Isolation Domains to Prevent Inter-VM Rowhammer. Kevin Loughlin, Jonah Rosenblum, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Dimitrios Skarlatos, and Baris Kasikci. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Koblenz, Germany, October 2023. [code] [presentation]

  2. MOESI-prime: Preventing Coherence-Induced Hammering in Commodity Workloads. Kevin Loughlin, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Yatin A. Manerkar, and Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). New York City, New York, United States, June 2022. [code]

  3. Debugging in the Brave New World of Reconfigurable Hardware. Jiacheng Ma, Gefei Zuo, Kevin Loughlin, Haoyang Zhang, Andrew Quinn, and Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2022. [code]

  4. DOLMA: Securing Speculation with the Principle of Transient Non-Observability. Kevin Loughlin, Ian Neal, Jiacheng Ma, Elisa Tsai, Ofir Weisse, Satish Narayanasamy, and Baris Kasikci. USENIX Security Symposium. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 2021. [code] [presentation]

  5. A Hypervisor for Shared-Memory FPGA Platforms. Jiacheng Ma, Gefei Zuo, Kevin Loughlin, Xiaohe Cheng, Yanqiang Liu, Abel Mulugeta Eneyew, Zhengwei Qi, and Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2020. [code]

  6. NDA: Preventing Speculative Execution Attacks at Their Source. Ofir Weisse, Ian Neal, Kevin Loughlin, Thomas F. Wenisch, and Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Columbus, Ohio, United States, October 2019. IEEE Micro Top Picks 2020 Honorable Mention.

Workshop Papers


  1. Software-Defined Memory Controllers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Kevin Loughlin, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, and Baris Kasikci. Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI) Session at ASPLOS. Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2022.

  2. Stop! Hammer Time: Rethinking Our Approach to Rowhammer Mitigations. Kevin Loughlin, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, and Baris Kasikci. Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS). Cyberspace, People’s Couches, and Most Likely Zoom, June 2021. [video] [(rhyming!) presentation]

Technical Reports


  1. mFIT: A Bump-in-the-Wire Tool for Plug-and-Play Analysis of Rowhammer Susceptibility Factors. Lucian Cojocar, Kevin Loughlin, Stefan Saroiu, Baris Kasikci, and Alec Wolman. MSR-TR-2021-25 (Microsoft Research Technical Report). October 2021. [code]

Ph.D. Dissertation


  1. Mitigating Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities to Improve Cloud Security and Reliability. Kevin Loughlin. University of Michigan Ph.D. Dissertation. August 2023.