KSIS Lab
Kuwait University Secure Computing and Intelligent Systems Lab
Advancing Secure and High-Performance Computing Systems
KSIS Lab conducts research in secure computing, computer architecture, intelligent systems, hardware acceleration, and emerging high-performance computing platforms.
Research
Research Highlights
Active research areas across secure and high-performance computing.
Secure Computer Architecture
Designing processors and microarchitectures with security as a primary concern, spanning cache and memory integrity, GPU security, and trusted execution environments.
- Hardware Security
- Memory Security
- GPU Security
- Trusted Architectures
- Secure Cache Systems
Chiplet-Based Systems
Investigating disaggregated, multi-die computing architectures and their security, integrity, and interconnect implications for scalable and modular system design.
- Chiplet Security
- Secure Interconnects
- Trusted Computing Base Reduction
- Heterogeneous Chiplet Platforms
Cybersecurity and Privacy
Research in privacy-preserving systems, information-flow enforcement, mobile platform security, IoT security, and automated privacy violation detection.
- Information-Flow Control
- Access Control
- Mobile OS Security
- IoT Security
- Privacy Violation Detection
Cryptography and Quantum Computing
Advancing cryptographic protocols, quantum computation models, and complexity-theoretic foundations for secure and quantum-resilient system design.
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum Federated Learning
- Computational Complexity
Projects
Featured Projects
A selection of ongoing and recent projects from the lab.
Chiplet-Knight
Research on rethinking and designing security support for chiplet-based architectures, targeting trusted computing base reduction, secure die-to-die interconnects, and coherence hardening.
Learn moreCompetition-style Sorting Networks
Defined and evaluated the Competition-based Sorting Network (CSN) framework for hardware accelerators, achieving up to 11× gain over bitonic sort on FPGA and 3.32× speedup on GPU.
Learn moreTIC Compression
A KU-funded project designing and evaluating a lightweight Plain-text Incremental Compression (TIC) technique with fast lookup ability, targeting hardware-level deployment in memory-constrained systems.
Learn morePublications
Recent Publications
A preview of recent and forthcoming publications from the lab.
Competition-style Sorting Networks (CSN): A Framework for Hardware-based Sorting Operations
A. Fairouz, J. Aljuraidan, A. Mohammed
IEEE Transactions on Computers (September 2025)
TinyBERT for Branch Prediction in Modern Microprocessors
A. AlAjmi, B. AlSarraf, Z. Abualhassan, A. Fairouz, I. Ahmad
Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Nature, vol. 37, pp. 1771–1782 (2024)
Hardware Acceleration of Hash Operations in Modern Microprocessors
A. Fairouz, M. Abusultan, S. Fedorov, S. P. Khatri
IEEE Transactions on Computers (July 2020)
News
Latest News
Recent announcements and updates from KSIS Lab.
Research Activities in Secure and Intelligent Computing
KSIS Lab brings together research in secure computer architecture, cybersecurity, cryptography, intelligent systems, and hardware acceleration.
Read moreChiplet-Knight: Secure Chiplet-Based Architecture Research
KSIS Lab research includes secure chiplet-based architectures and reduced trusted computing base designs.
Read moreApplied AI Research for Aquaculture Automation
KSIS Lab faculty are involved in applied AI research for aquaculture automation and disease prediction.
Read moreGet involved
We welcome students, collaborators, and researchers interested in secure and high-performance computing.