Oxford, UK — November 09, 2024 In June 2022, three short weeks after my college graduation, I presented at ISCA, my first serious research conference. Onstage with my co-author Jules Drean, we gave a 15-minute talk about our hardware security research paper, There’s Always a Bigger Fish: A Clarifying Analysis of a Machine-Learning-Assisted Side-Channel Attack, that had taken the majority of my last two years at MIT to complete. In hindsight, that talk was the culmination of one of my proudest ac...