Weon Taek Na

Research

My research interests broadly lie in the areas of computer architecture and computer systems. I aim to make computers faster, greener, and more secure.

Publications

• PACMAN: Attacking ARM Pointer Authentication with Speculative Execution [paper] [slides] [website] [ARM article]
  Joseph Ravichandran*, Weon Taek Na*, Jay Lang, Mengjia Yan
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2022)
  *: co-first authors.
  Press: Popular Science; The Register; TechCrunch; Gizmodo; The Hacker News; Hot Hardware; IEEE Spectrum; Dark Reading; MIT News; Macworld; Cryotweaks; Tom's Hardware; New York Daily Paper; VentureBeat; phoronix; channel969; 9To5Mac; The Mirage; Mashable India; CHAROPF; Security Affairs; All About Circuits; Life Hacker; InfoQ; Bleeping Computer ; Digital Trends; Tech Explorist; Exploit One; Android Police; Security Boulevard; The Record;
  

• A Case for Fine-grain Coherence Specialization in Heterogeneous Systems [paper]
  Johnathan Alsop, Weon Taek Na, Matthew D. Sinclair, Samuel Grayson, Sarita V. Adve
  ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO 2022)
  

Patents

• Using a Bloom Filter To Reduce the Number of Memory Addresses Tracked by a Coherence Directory [link]
  Weon Taek Na, Yasuko Eckert, Mark H. Oskin, Gabriel H. Loh, William Louie Walker, Michael Warren Boyer
  US Patent 11,226,900, Filed Jan 2020.
  

• Adaptive Cache Management Based on Programming Model Information [link]
  Weon Taek Na, Jagadish B. Kotra, Yasuko Eckert, Steven Raasch, Sergey Blagodurov
  US Patent App 16/713,940, Filed Dec 2019.
  

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Weon Taek Na

MIT CSAIL

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weontaek@mit.edu