DRAM is the most prevalent memory technology used in laptops, mobile phones, workstations and servers. As such, its security is paramount, yet DRAM attacks remain as viable as ever despite many attempts to resolve its security problems. The toolkit of DRAM disturb attacks has expanded with the introduction of new techniques such as Half-Double, RowPress, and ColumnDisturb, and it is likely that additional form of disturbance errors (and reliability and security issues) will emerge as we scale DRAM devices to smaller feature sizes. DRAM is also plagued by additional forms of attack, including side-channel, Denial-of-Service (DoS), and cold-boot attacks.
Against this backdrop, the industry is introducing new DRAM security solutions that require independent scrutiny from the academia. Academia continues to propose novel fixes for RowHammer, often without the benefit of insight into constraints faced by the industry.
Registration and workshop program
DRAMSec 2026 is co-hosted with ISCA. Information on registration for the workshops can be found on the conference website here.DRAMSec 2026 will be livestreamed to registered remote attendees of ISCA and support hybrid participation. Please check the conference website here for more information on remote attendance.
Schedule
Updated 2026.06.23| Time EDT (28th) | Time CEST (28th) | Topic |
| 08:00 - 08:05 | 14:00 - 14:05 | Welcome |
| 08:05 - 08:35 | 14:05 - 14:35 | Hardware Prefetcher-based Rowhammer Attack Yashwant Kumar Balivada, Maccoy Merrell, Paul Gratz, Stavros Kalafatis |
| 08:35 - 09:05 | 14:35 - 15:05 | Temperature-Aware Runtime-Adaptive Thresholding for Rowhammer Mitigation Aziz Alajmi, Hoeseok Yang |
| 09:05 - 10:05 | 15:05 - 16:05 | Keynote Onur Mutlu |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | 16:05 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | 16:30 - 17:00 | AI Agents Can Defeat Security by Obscurity for Rowhammer Defenses Stefan Saroiu, Jay Bosamiya, Alec Wolman, Adam Grenzebach, Paramvir Bahl |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | 17:00 - 17:30 | Blindspot: Moving the Needle on Rowhammer-Tolerant DRAM Chips by Understanding Technical and Business Concerns Moinuddin K. Qureshi |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | 17:30 - 19:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | 19:30 - 20:30 | Panel: The Future of DRAM Security Research |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | 20:30 - 21:00 | FlipShield : Self-Improving Software Mitigation Against Rowhammer Fan Wang, Yuan Xiao, Carter Yagemann |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | 21:00 - 21:30 | CNN-Based RowHammer Vulnerability Prediction: Inter-DIMM Generalization and Intra-DIMM Completion from Partial Row Observations Mohammad Farmani, Vineet Suresh Kumar |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | 21:30 - 22:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | 22:00 - 22:30 | elppiR: Efficiently Protecting PRAC Against Ripple Attacks Moinuddin K. Qureshi |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | 22:30 - 23:00 | AutoPRAC: Automating Attack Discovery for PRAC-Based Rowhammer Defenses using Model Checkers Joyce Qu, Gururaj Saileshwar |
| 17:00 | 23:00 | Closing Comments / End |
| 18:30 | 00:30 | ISCA Welcome Reception |
Workshop papers
Hardware Prefetcher-based Rowhammer Attack
Yashwant Kumar Balivada, Maccoy Merrell, Paul Gratz, Stavros Kalafatis
Paper
Temperature-Aware Runtime-Adaptive Thresholding for Rowhammer Mitigation
Aziz Alajmi, Hoeseok Yang
Paper
AI Agents Can Defeat Security by Obscurity for Rowhammer Defenses
Stefan Saroiu, Jay Bosamiya, Alec Wolman, Adam Grenzebach, Paramvir Bahl
Paper
Blindspot: Moving the Needle on Rowhammer-Tolerant DRAM Chips by Understanding Technical and Business Concerns
Moinuddin K. Qureshi
Paper
FlipShield : Self-Improving Software Mitigation Against Rowhammer
Fan Wang, Yuan Xiao, Carter Yagemann
Paper
CNN-Based RowHammer Vulnerability Prediction: Inter-DIMM Generalization and Intra-DIMM Completion from Partial Row Observations
Mohammad Farmani, Vineet Suresh Kumar
Paper
elppiR: Efficiently Protecting PRAC Against Ripple Attacks
Moinuddin K. Qureshi
Paper
AutoPRAC: Automating Attack Discovery for PRAC-Based Rowhammer Defenses using Model Checkers
Joyce Qu, Gururaj Saileshwar
Paper
Keynote
TBA
Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich [PPTX] [PDF]
Panel
The Future of DRAM Security Research
Workshop Chairs
- Yuval Yarom, Ruhr University Bochum
- Steven Woo, Rambus Inc.
Steering Committee
- Onur Mutlu, ETH Zürich
- Kuljit Bains, NVIDIA
- Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft
- Salman Qazi, Independent
- Moinuddin Qureshi, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kaveh Razavi, ETH Zürich
Submissions and Web Chair
- Nisa Bostancı, ETH Zürich
Program Committee
- Andrew Adiletta, MITRE
- Barbara Aichinger, FuturePlus Systems
- Daniel Genkin, Georgia Tech
- Fan Yao, University of Central Florida
- Irina Alam, Apple
- Jung Ho Ahn, Seoul National University
- Kaveh Razavi, ETH Zürich
- Kuljit Bains, NVIDIA
- Martina Lindorfer, TU Wien
- Michael Schwarz, CISPA
- Onur Mutlu, ETH Zürich
- Randall Rooney, Micron
- Salman Qazi, Google
- Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft
- Tamara Lehman, University of Colorado Boulder
- Tanj Bennett, Avant-Gray LLC
- Thomas Vogelsang, Rambus Inc.
- Victor van der Veen, Qualcomm
- Wendy Elsasser, Rambus Inc.
- Woongrae Kim, SK Hynix
- Yanan Guo, University of Rochester