Jeferson

Jeferson Gonzalez

  • Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7
    Bldg. 07.21
    76131 Karlsruhe

Short Bio

Jeferson Gonzalez received the M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering with a major on embedded systems from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC) in 2016. He joined the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in October 2020. He is currently a researcher and Ph.D. student at Chair for Embedded Systems. His research interests include security and resource management for embedded and multi-/manycore systems.

Publications

Journals
Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Lars Bauer, Heba Khdr, Jörg Henkel
Balancing Security and Efficiency: System-Informed Mitigation of Power-Based Covert Channels
in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), ESWEEK24 Special Edition, Sep 2024 (ACCEPTED), 2024.
Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel
Cache-based Side-Channel Attack Mitigation for Many-core Distributed Systems via Dynamic Task Migration
in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, DOI, PDF, Apr 2023.
Conferences
Hassan Nassar, Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Varun Manjunath, Lars Bauer, and Jörg Henkel
Through Fabric: A Cross-world Thermal Covert Channel on TEE-enhanced FPGA-MPSoC Systems
in 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC ’25) , (Accepted) 2025.
Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Hassan Nassar, Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel
(Short Paper) LightFAt: Mitigating Control-flow Explosion via Lightweight PMU-based Control-Flow Attestation
in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), Washington D.C., USA, DOI, PDF, May 6-9 2024.
Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Heba Khdr, Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel
Smart Detection of Obfuscated Thermal Covert Channel Attacks in Many-core Processors
in 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, DOI, PDF, Jul 9-13 2023.
Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Kevin Cordero-Zuñiga, Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel
The First Concept and Real-world Deployment of a GPU-based Thermal Covert Channel: Attack and Countermeasures
in 26th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'23), Antwerp, Belgium, DOI, PDF, Apr 17-19 2023.
Jeferson González-Gómez, Steven Ávila-Ardón, Jonathan Rojas-González, Andres Stephen-Cantillano, Jorge Castro-Godínez, Carlos Salazar-García, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel
TailoredCore: Generating Application-Specific RISC-V-based Cores
in IEEE 12th Latin America Symposium on Circuits and System (LASCAS), DOI, PDF, Feb 21-24 2021.
arXiv
Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Jose Alejandro Ibarra-Campos, Jesus Yamir Sandoval-Morales, Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel
MeMoir: A Software-Driven Covert Channel based on Memory Usage
in arxiv, DOI, PDF, 2024.
Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Hassan Nassar, Lars Bauer, Jorg Henkel
LightFAt: Mitigating Control-flow Explosion via Lightweight PMU-based Control-flow Attestation
in arxiv, DOI, PDF, 2024.
Books / Book Chapter
Nidhi Anantharajaiah, Tamim Asfour, Michael Bader, Lars Bauer, Jürgen Becker, Simon Bischof, Marcel Brand, Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Christian Eichler, Khalil Esper, Joachim Falk, Nael Fasfous, Felix Freiling, Andreas Fried, Michael Gerndt, Michael Glaß, Jeferson Gonzalez, Frank Hannig, Christian Heidorn, Jörg Henkel, Andreas Herkersdorf, Benedict Herzog, Jophin John, Timo Hönig, Felix Hundhausen, Heba Khdr, Tobias Langer, Oliver Lenke, Fabian Lesniak, Alexander Lindermayr, Alexandra Listl, Sebastian Maier, Nicole Megow, Marcel Mettler, Daniel Müller-Gritschneder, Hassan Nassar, Fabian Paus, Alexander Pöppl, Behnaz Pourmohseni, Jonas Rabenstein, Phillip Raffeck, Martin Rapp, Santiago Narváez Rivas, Mark Sagi, Franziska Schirrmacher, Ulf Schlichtmann, Florian Schmaus, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Tobias Schwarzer, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Bertrand Simon, Gregor Snelting, Jan Spieck, Akshay Srivatsa, Walter Stechele, Jürgen Teich, Furkan Turan, Isaías A. Comprés Ureña, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Dominik Walter, Thomas Wild, Stefan Wildermann, Mario Wille, Michael Witterauf, Li Zhang
Invasive Computing
in FAU University Press (Editors: Jürgen Teich, Jörg Henkel, Andreas Herkersdorf), DOI, PDF, Aug 2022.
Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel, Timo Hönig, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Christian Eichler, Jeferson Gonzalez, Benedict Herzog,Tobias Langer, Sebastian Maier, Jonas Rabenstein, Phillip Raffeck, Florian Schmaus
Invasive Run-Time Support System (iRTSS)
Chapter in Invasive Computing (Editors: Jürgen Teich, Jörg Henkel, Andreas Herkersdorf) FAU University Press, DOI, PDF, Aug 2022.

Student Theses

Finished Projects
NameType of workTitleMentorCompletion date
Hany, IslamBachelor thesisDemonstrator for GPU-based Thermal Covert Channel on an Embedded PlatformGonzalez, Jeferson2023-09-30
Batur, Mustafa EnesBachelor thesisTrusted Storage Isolation Between Identified Callers Using ARM TrustZone with OPTEEGonzalez, Jeferson2022-10-22
Batur, Mustafa EnesHiwiSupport for Global Demonstrator 1 in the InvasIC ProjectGonzalez, Jeferson2022-10-05