Boulder Computer Architecture Research Lab

Tamara Silbergleit Lehman is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Department. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science department and she is a member of the Colorado Research Center for Democracy and Technology. Her work focuses on all aspects of computer security from the hardware perspective. Her research interests span a wide array of topics on the intersection of computer architecture and security.  Before doing her PhD, she completed an Masters of Engineering degree at Duke University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is passionate about computer architecture, and her industrial engineering background gives her a new perspective on ways to optimize systems. She also enjoys working on the security space because it is one of the most challenging problems facing the computer industry. At the heart of most computer security challenges is people. Computers do what they are designed to do, but it is the people who re-define the system’s functionality. She strongly believes that secure systems should not rely on people writing correct code, or running well-intended applications, but instead having well defined functionality with well defined side-effects. In addition, her research is guided by the principle that all computers should be secure and efficient. Systems should not have to sacrifice efficiency for security.

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News:

  • January 2021: I will be teaching the Advanced Computer Architecture course (ECEN5593) in Spring 2021. Come learn all the bells and whistles that make processors so fast (and efficient and secure). 
  • December 2020: If you have an idea for a tutorial or workshop for ASPLOS 2021, enter your proposal here.
  • December 2020: We welcome a new member in the group Sylvia Llosa who will be working on the security work of dynamic spectrum sharing. 
  • December 2020: Congratulations to Srihaasa Pidikiti and Jason Zhang for getting their work published at FOSINT-SI. Read more about their work here.
  • November 2020: I am excited to share that I will be serving as the co-chair for Workshops and Tutorials for ASPLOS 2021.
  • October 2020: I am excited to share that I will be serving as the Publications chair for HPCA 2021. 
  • September 2020: We are excited to share that our dynamic spectrum sharing proposal to NSF called PASS got funded! Congratulations to Dr. Keith Gremban (PI) and Dr. Kevin Gifford (co-PI)! We are excited to start this collaboration. 
  • September 2020: Our IRA Twitter work is getting noticed. Check out TV and radio interviews regarding this work in KVDR, KOAN and CPR.
  • August 2020: We are in the news! Check out the article written by Daniel Strain here about our Russian IRA Twitter work.
  • June 2020: The Career Workshop for Women and Minorities in Computer Architecture (CWWMCA) has been accepted once again to be hosted in conjunction with MICRO-53 in Athens, Greece. 
  • June 2020: I am excited to share the news that our lab is about to get much bigger with 3 new PhD students: Rhett Hanscom, Ange-Thierry Ishimwe and Daniel Trahan will be joining us starting in the Fall 2020.
  • June 2020: I will be teaching the Computer Organization (ECEN 3593) course in Fall 2020.
  • August 2019: I will be teaching a seminar course on Secure Computer Architectures this Fall 2019. Join my class, ECEN 5033-002,  if you want to learn more about the intersection of computer architecture and security.