Tyler K Bletsch

Education

• B.S. North Carolina State University, 2004
• D.Phil. North Carolina State University, 2011

Positions

• Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Assistant Professor of the Practice of Computer Science

Courses Taught

• ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
• ECE 568: Engineering Robust Server Software
• ECE 566: Enterprise Storage Architecture
• ECE 560: Computer and Information Security
• ECE 496: Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 495: Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 458: Engineering Software for Maintainability
• ECE 391: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 350L: Digital Systems
• ECE 291: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 250D: Computer Architecture
• COMPSCI 391: Independent Study
• COMPSCI 350L: Digital Systems
• COMPSCI 250D: Computer Architecture

Publications

• Ortega E, Talukdar J, Paik W, Bletsch T, Chakrabarty K. Rowhammer Vulnerability of DRAMs in 3-D Integration. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 2024 May 1;32(5):967u201371.
• Joardar BK, Bletsch TK, Chakrabarty K. Machine Learning-Based Rowhammer Mitigation. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2023 May 1;42(5):1393u2013405.
• Ortega E, Bletsch T, Joardar B, Talukdar J, Paik W, Chakrabarty K. Simply-Track-and-Refresh: Efficient and Scalable Rowhammer Mitigation. In: Proceedings - International Test Conference. 2023. p. 340u20139.
• Joardar BK, Bletsch TK, Chakrabarty K. Learning to Mitigate Rowhammer Attacks. In: Proceedings of the 2022 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2022. 2022. p. 564u20137.
• Tran M, Etheridge M, Bletsch T, Jiang X, Freeh V, Ning P. On the expressiveness of return-into-libc attacks. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2011. p. 121u201341.
• Li J, Wang Z, Bletsch T, Srinivasan D, Grace M, Jiang X. Comprehensive and efficient protection of kernel control data. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2011 Dec 1;6(4):1404u201317.
• Bletsch T, Jiang X, Freeh V. Mitigating code-reuse attacks with control-flow locking. In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 2011. p. 353u201362.
• Bletsch T, Jiang X, Freeh VW, Liang Z. Jump-oriented programming: A new class of code-reuse attack. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIACCS 2011. 2011. p. 30u201340.
• Rountree B, Lowenthal DK, De Supinski BR, Schulz M, Freeh VW, Bletsch T. Adagio: Making DVS practical for complex HPC applications. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing. 2009. p. 460u20139.
• Min YL, Rawson F, Bletsch T, Freeh VW. PADD: Power-aware domain distribution. In: Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. 2009. p. 239u201347.
• Rogers NR, Drake MA, Daubert CR, McMahon DJ, Bletsch TK, Foegeding EA. The effect of aging on low-fat, reduced-fat, and full-fat Cheddar cheese texture. Journal of dairy science. 2009 Oct;92(10):4756u201372.
• Freeh VW, Kappiah N, Lowenthal DK, Bletsch TK. Just-in-time dynamic voltage scaling: Exploiting inter-node slack to save energy in MPI programs. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 2008 Sep 1;68(9):1175u201385.
• Freeh VW, Bletsch TK, Rawson FL. Scaling and packing on a chip multiprocessor. In: Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM. 2007.

In The News

• Tyler Bletsch Takes You on a Tour of the Insides of a Computer (Oct 9, 2020 | )