HASP @ MICRO 2026

Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) 2026
In conjunction with MICRO 2026,
Athens, Greece
Oct. 31, 2026
https://www.haspworkshop.org/2026/index.html

Call for Papers
Security and privacy research focusing on hardware and architecture aspects has become increasingly important. In the era of cloud computing, smart devices, and novel nano-scale devices, practitioners and researchers have to address new challenges and requirements in order to meet the ever-changing landscape of security research and new demands from consumers, enterprises, governments, defense, and other industries.

Topics of Interest
• Secure hardware processor architectures and implementations
• Side-channel attacks, evaluations, and defenses
• Fault injection attacks (e.g., Rowhammer, electromagnetic), evaluations, and defenses
• Hardware support for software security protection (e.g., memory safety)
• Hardware Trojan threat evaluation, detection, and prevention
• Cryptographic hardware design, implementation, and evaluation
• Security simulation, testing, validation, and verification
• Hardware fingerprinting and physically unclonable functions (PUFs)
• Hardware and architectural support for trust management
• Fault-resilient architecture designs
• Hardware-enhanced cloud security
• Commercial trusted execution environment (TEE) systems and security solutions
• Hardware support for secure Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices
• Quantum computer security
• Security of emerging architectures, such as analog computing, etc.

Submission Types:

• Regular Paper (7 pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices)
  • Research Paper
  • SoK Paper: Systemization-of-Knowledge papers should concisely, but exhaustively, systematize and conceptualize existing knowledge (similar to SoK papers in S&P conferences, but focusing on hardware and architecture). Titles must use the prefix “SoK Paper:”.
  • Position Paper: Papers should define new problems in hardware or architecture security and privacy topics, supported by facts, evidence, and logical reasoning. Titles must use the prefix “Position Paper:”.
• Short Paper (4 pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices)
  • Short Research Paper: Titles must use the prefix “Short Paper:”.
  • Work-in-Progress (WIP): Titles must use the prefix “WiP:”. WiP papers will not appear in the proceedings, but the title and authors will be listed on the HASP web page as a public record of the presentation.

Submission Information
All submissions must use the double-column ACM ICPS template (LaTeX preferred); please use the ACM Standard template in the usual two-column format. The template can be found at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review. Regular paper and short paper submissions must be at most 7 or 4 pages respectively, excluding the bibliography and appendices. All accepted research papers, SoK papers, and position papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library; WiP papers are not included. The proceedings will be published through ACM ICPS following the open access model. Submission site: https://hasp26.cs.rochester.edu/

Keynote Speakers & Mentoring Program
Keynote speakers will be announced on the workshop website. HASP 2026 will also organize a mentoring program, which provides student attendees opportunities to get connected with senior researchers individually and have conversations about their research and career. Students will be paired with faculty/postdoc mentors for meetings during the workshop/conference, and any follow-ups afterward.

Important Dates
• Submission Deadline: Aug. 10, 2026 (AoE)
• Notification of Acceptance: Sep. 16, 2026
• Camera-Ready Version: Oct. 1, 2026
• Physical Workshop: With MICRO 2026, Athens

Program Chairs
• Wenjie Xiong, Virginia Tech, USA
• Yanan Guo, University of Rochester, USA
• Theodoros Trochatos, Yale University, USA