Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Appointments and Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Information
- Office Location: 103 Wilkinson Building, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (919) 660-5242
- Email Address: tyler.bletsch@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- B.S. North Carolina State University, 2004
- D.Phil. North Carolina State University, 2011
Research Interests
Software security, robotics, project-oriented education, and datacenter efficiency
Courses Taught
- COMPSCI 250D: Computer Architecture
- ECE 250D: Computer Architecture
- ECE 291: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 391: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 392: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 458: Engineering Software for Maintainability
- ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 496: Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 560: Computer and Information Security
- ECE 568: Engineering Robust Server Software
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- EGR 391: Projects in Engineering
- EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
In the News
- Tyler Bletsch Takes You on a Tour of the Insides of a Computer (Oct 9, 2020)
- A Spiderman Web Shooter and Ocean Exploration: Duke Innovators Rock the Smithsonian at ACC Festival (May 2, 2019 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
Representative Publications
- Joardar, B. K., T. K. Bletsch, and K. Chakrabarty. “Learning to Mitigate Rowhammer Attacks.” In Proceedings of the 2022 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, Date 2022, 564–67, 2022. https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774703.
- Joardar, B. K., T. K. Bletsch, and K. Chakrabarty. “Machine Learning-based Rowhammer Mitigation.” Ieee Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, January 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2022.3206729.
- Bletsch, T., X. Jiang, and V. Freeh. “Mitigating code-reuse attacks with control-flow locking.” In Acm International Conference Proceeding Series, 353–62, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1145/2076732.2076783.
- Li, J., Z. Wang, T. Bletsch, D. Srinivasan, M. Grace, and X. Jiang. “Comprehensive and efficient protection of kernel control data.” Ieee Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 6, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 1404–17. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2011.2159712.
- Tran, M., M. Etheridge, T. Bletsch, X. Jiang, V. Freeh, and P. Ning. “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), 6961 LNCS:121–41, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23644-0_7.