Recent News:

  • Feb 2026: Anik’s work on Radiation effects on 3D NAND storage is accepted in IEEE TNS 2026
  • Feb 2026: Habib and Misha’s paper on RowHammer in Flash SSDs accepted at IEEE HOST 2026
  • Feb 2026: Anjali and Misha’s paper on NOR flash sanitization accepted at IEEE HOST 2026
  • Feb 2026: Misha’s paper on scrambler analysis in Flash SSDs accepted at IEEE ISQED 2026
  • Nov 2025: Habib’s paper on In-Flash computing is published in IEEE ICCD 2025 (paper) (video)
  • Oct 2025:  RAMLAB received Best Lab Demo Award in IEEE PAINE, 2025 (video)
  • Oct 2025: Habib’s work on TinyEKG is in CSU news (link)
  • Sept 2025: Dr. Ray received DARPA Young Faculty Award (link)
  • Sept 2025Survey paper on 3D NAND flash reliability, security, and sustainability accepted in IEEE Design&Test journal (link)
  • Jul 2025: Misha’s paper on instant sanitization of 3D NAND accepted at IEEE/ACM ESWEEK (ACM TECS journal) 2025 (link)

Our Research

Our research spans the boundaries of electron devices and systems for addressing the challenges in hardware security and reliability, low power computing and smart sensor design.

Opportunities for
Students

We are always looking for motivated graduate and undergraduate students to work on interesting projects related to hardware security, extreme reliability, and emerging non-volatile memory systems.

External Partnerships

We are open to collaborations with with groups from industry, academia, and national labs. If you think our expertise may help your project, please contact us to discuss possible collaborations.

The Lab

Welcome to the Reliable and Assured Microelectronics (RAM) Laboratory at Colorado State University. The lab is founded and directed by Associate Professor Biswajit Ray. It is located at the CSU’s Main Campus in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

The lab explores the fundamental science and engineering for next generation solid state storage technologies and systems. Even though storage technology has seen unprecedented growth in bit-density over the last few decades, emerging artificial intelligence and edge computing applications present new challenges related to security, resilience, and energy-efficiency. These challenges can only be addressed through innovative system design concepts that aptly utilizes the physical properties of storage media. The traditional storage system mainly relies on technology-agnostic algorithmic functions, often overlooking the intricate physical properties of the storage media. Our research endeavors aim to bridge this gap by developing a unique device-system interactive framework that will open-up new opportunities for enhancing resilience, security, and energy efficiency of future storage systems.

Real World Impact

Based on fundamental sciences and engineering , we are exploring applications in various fields such as spaced based data centers, in-storage computing and supply-chain security of the storage chips.