7th ADVANTEST D2T Special Seminar Hybrid
January 15 Thu. 11:30 am- JST
room 405, Takeda Building, the University of Tokyo
Zoom ONLINE
Language: English

7th ADVANTEST D2T Special Seminar 2026 will be held on Thursday, January 15, 11:30 am - JST. We introduce a topic: Navigating the New Frontier of Hardware and Software Security by Professor Ramesh Karri, New York University. This topic has been very hot recently. Please join the seminar.

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Chairperson: Masahiro Fujita, Ph.D., d.lab, the University of Tokyo

Title: Navigating the New Frontier of Hardware and Software Security

Ramesh Karri, Professor, New York University

Abstract
This talk examines the intersection of AI, design automation, and security through four connected challenges: insecure AI-assisted programming, the limits of general-purpose LLMs in hardware design, and supply-chain threats to hardware integrity. I will first analyze GitHub Copilot and find that roughly 40% of its code suggestions contain security vulnerabilities, with outcomes strongly shaped by surrounding context. Then, I will present VeriGen, domain-specialized Verilog LLMs fine-tuned on a curated corpus from GitHub and digitized textbooks, achieving major gains in syntactic correctness and competitive functional correctness versus much larger models?at significantly higher speed.

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Contact
Akio Higo
higo"@"if.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
ADVANTEST D2T Research Department,
Systems Design Lab (d.lab),
School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Tel: +81-3-5841-0233 FAX: +81-3-5841-1093