About me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Southern University of Science and Technology, where I am fortunate to work with Prof. Yinqian Zhang. I received my Ph.D. in January 2025 from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Xu Cheng and Prof. Ziyuan Zhu. I am also grateful for the guidance of Prof. Yuval Yarom and Prof. Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup during my time as a visiting student at the University of Adelaide.

My research focuses on hardware security and side-channel attacks.

News!

• [2025/09] Our paper “Fish and Chips: On the Root Causes of Co-located Website-Fingerprinting Attacks” has been accepted by TDSC.
• [2025/09] Our paper “MUXLeak: Exploiting Multiplexers as A Power Side Channel against Multi-tenant FPGAs” has been accepted by TCAD.
• [2025/02] I started my position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at TEECert Labs.
• [2025/01] I received my Ph.D. from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences!

Service

• Reviewer for Artifact Evaluation: Usenix Security 2023 & 2024
• Reviewer for Journal: TDSC

Honors and Awards

• [2021] China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship
• [2018] Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Top 1%), China Agricultural University
• [2018] Outstanding Graduate (Top 5%), China Agricultural University

Working Experience

• [2025.2-present] Postdoctoral Fellow, Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Supervisor: Prof. Yinqian Zhang

Educational Background

• [2018.9-2025.1] Ph.D Student in Computer Systems Organization, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Supervisor: Prof. Xu Cheng & Prof. Ziyuan Zhu
• [2022.8-2023.9] Visiting Student, University of Adelaide
  • Supervisor: Prof. Yuval Yarom & Prof. Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup
• [2014.9-2018.6] B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Automation, China Agricultural University

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