SURE is a unit of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), part of the University of Southern California’s highly ranked Viterbi School of Engineering. ISI has pioneered computing and communications hardware and software for more than 40 years, including seminal contributions to the Internet.

SURE seeks to investigate and address state-of-the-art manufacturing complexities that significantly have compromised four key aspects of chip production: trust, security, resilience and reliability. As experienced industry collaborators, we also aim to accelerate the scale, pace and impact of hardware robustness and security technology development.

Governmental supporters currently include DARPA, IARPA, NASA, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corporation are among our disclosable industry partners. Higher education research partners include Stanford, Virginia Tech, Brigham Young and Arizona State Universities; and the University of North Carolina.