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Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
Google Scholar ID: AN3f7iAAAAAJ
University of California, Riverside
Hardware security
Computer Architecture
Trustworthy ML
AR/VR security
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89
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9 items
VLMs Need Words: Vision Language Models Ignore Visual Detail In Favor of Semantic Anchors
2026
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Modeling Hierarchical Thinking in Large Reasoning Models
2025
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Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
2025
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Evil Vizier: Vulnerabilities of LLM-Integrated XR Systems
2025
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ShadowScope: GPU Monitoring and Validation via Composable Side Channel Signals
2025
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Poison Once, Refuse Forever: Weaponizing Alignment for Injecting Bias in LLMs
2025
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PRACtical: Subarray-Level Counter Update and Bank-Level Recovery Isolation for Efficient PRAC Rowhammer Mitigation
2025
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Misaligned Roles, Misplaced Images: Structural Input Perturbations Expose Multimodal Alignment Blind Spots
2025
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Academic Achievements
Multiple papers accepted to top-tier conferences including EMNLP'25, ICML (Spotlight, top 2.6%), ISCA, Oakland'25 (IEEE S&P), Usenix Security, NDSS, CCS, ASPLOS, MICRO, etc.
Awarded NSF grants in 2025 for research on ML security/privacy (with Ihsen and Alessio) and evolving graph processing (with Rajiv Gupta)
Paper 'BranchScope' recognized with a Top Pick award in Architecture Security
Several papers selected as Top Picks in hardware security (ICCAD'19, ICCAD'2018)
Best Paper Award at WOOT 2018
Advised students won 1st and 2nd place at ACM SRC competition at PACT 2024
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132 total
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Khaled N. Khasawneh
George Mason University
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Erfan Shayegani
Ph.D. student at University of California, Riverside
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