Bio
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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
- CISC 3593 — Computer Organization
Columbia University
- COMS 6998 — The Economics of Cybersecurity
- CSEE 4824 — Computer Architecture
- COMS 6424 — Hardware Security
- COMS 4181 — Security I
Publications
Using Pay-For-Performance to Incentivize Component-Level Security
17th Conference on Game Theory and AI for Security, 2026 (forthcoming)
John Chester, Adam Hastings
Who Pays for Security? Reframing Security Mechanisms as Burden-Allocation Instruments
New Security Paradigms Workshop, 2026 (forthcoming)
Adam Hastings
Voluntary Investments, Mandatory Minimums, or Cyber Insurance: What Minimizes Losses?
34th Usenix Security Symposium, 2025 (demo)
Adam Hastings, Simha Sethumadhavan
Economic Approaches to Hardware Security
PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2025
Adam Hastings
Architectural Security Regulation
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Vol. 22 Issue 2, 2023
Adam Hastings, Ryan Piersma, Simha Sethumadhavan
How Much is Performance Worth to Users?
ACM Computing Frontiers 2023 (video)
Adam Hastings, Lydia Chilton, Simha Sethumadhavan
Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security
Computing Community Consortium Workshop Report, 2022
Simha Sethumadhavan, Tim Sherwood, Adam 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
Adam Hastings, Simha Sethumadhavan
Are Computer Architects to Blame for the State of Security Today?
ACM SIGARCH article, 2019
Adam Hastings, Simha 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
Adam Hastings
Using Physical and Functional Comparisons to Assure 3rd-Party IP for Modern FPGAs
IEEE International Verification and Security Workshop (IVSW), 2018
Adam Hastings, Sean Jensen, Jeff Goeders, Brad Hutchings