Publications

My publications span CPU microarchitecture, transient execution security, compiler hardware co-design, secure memory systems, FPGA-based acceleration, and machine-learning-assisted compiler optimization.

SCPC: Securing Cross Process Collision Based Transient Attacks

Under Review, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2026)

Authors: Ange-Thierry Ishimwe, Mujahid Al Rafi, Tamara Lehman, Hyeran Jeon

Under Review

SSMR: Statically Detecting Speculation Safe Memory Regions to Mitigate Transient Execution Attacks

International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2026)

Authors: Ange-Thierry Ishimwe, Sam McDiarmid-Sterling, Zack McKevitt, Tamara Silbergleit Lehman

Conference Paper

Baobab Merkle Tree for Efficient Secure Memory

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL 2024)

Authors: S Thomas, K Workneh, Ange-Thierry Ishimwe, Z McKevitt, P Curlin, R Bahar, J Izraelevitz, T Lehman

Journal Paper

A Customizable Domain Specific Memory Centric FPGA Overlay for Machine Learning Applications

International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2021)

Authors: A Panahi, S Balsalama, Ange-Thierry Ishimwe, J M Mbongue, D Andrews

Conference Paper

SPAR-2: A SIMD Processor Array for Machine Learning in IoT Devices

International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security, (ICDIS 2020)

Authors: S Basalama, A Panahi, Ange-Thierry Ishimwe, D Andrews

Conference Paper

Autoprune: A Stochastic Candidate Pruning Strategy for Souper

arXiv, 2025

Authors: Ange-Thierry Ishimwe, K Heewoo, Joseph Izraelevitz, Tamara Silbergleit Lehman

Preprint

Identifying Privacy Policy in Service Terms Using Natural Language Processing

Undergraduate Honors Thesis, University of Arkansas, 2020

Author: Ange-Thierry Ishimwe

Honors Thesis