Adam K. Hastings, PhD

Bio

Portrait of Adam Hastings

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University, located at the Lincoln Center campus in New York City. I am broadly interested in the intersection of computer systems, security, and economics, with a focus on how incentives shape the cybersecurity ecosystem. I received my PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University, where I worked under the supervision of Prof. Simha Sethumadhavan.

I am currently recruiting motivated PhD students to join my research group. This position comes with guaranteed funding. If you are interested in working on problems related to computer systems, security, hardware security, computer architecture, or security economics, please reach out.

Teaching

Fordham University

  • CISC 3595 — Operating Systems · Instructor
  • CISC 3593 — Computer Organization · Instructor

Columbia University

  • COMS 6998 — The Economics of Cybersecurity · Instructor
  • CSEE 4824 — Computer Architecture · TA
  • COMS 6424 — Hardware Security · TA
  • COMS 4181 — Security I · TA

Publications

Voluntary Investments, Mandatory Minimums, or Cyber Insurance: What Minimizes Losses?
34th Usenix Security Symposium, 2025 (demo)
A. Hastings, S. Sethumadhavan

Economic Approaches to Hardware Security
PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2025
A. Hastings

Architectural Security Regulation
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Vol. 22 Issue 2, 2023
A. Hastings, R. Piersma, S. Sethumadhavan

How Much is Performance Worth to Users?
ACM Computing Frontiers 2023 (video)
A. Hastings, L. Chilton, S. Sethumadhavan

Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security
Computing Community Consortium Workshop Report, 2022
S. Sethumadhavan, T. Sherwood, A. Hastings, et al.

Revisiting Residue Codes for Modern Memories (IEEE Top Picks award winner)
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2022
E. Manzhosov, A. Hastings, M. Pancholi, R. Piersma, M. Tarek Ibn Ziad, S. Sethumadhavan

A New Doctrine for Hardware Security
ACM Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES), 2020
A. Hastings, S. Sethumadhavan

Are Computer Architects to Blame for the State of Security Today?
ACM SIGARCH article, 2019
A. Hastings, S. Sethumadhavan

Checkpointing at System Calls using BDI Compression
Technical report, Columbia University, 2019
A. Hastings, H. Sasaki, M. Arroyo, K. Williams-King, V. Kemerlis, S. Sethumadhavan

Assuring Intellectual Property Through Physical and Functional Comparisons
Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, 2018
A. Hastings

Using Physical and Functional Comparisons to Assure 3rd-Party IP for Modern FPGAs
IEEE International Verification and Security Workshop (IVSW), 2018
A. Hastings, S. Jensen, J. Goeders, B. Hutchings

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