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Yicheng (亦成) Zhang I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at UC Riverside, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. Prior to that, I received my M.Sc. from UC Irvine and my B.S. from Sichuan University. In 2023, I spent a wonderful summer at PNNL, working with Kevin J. Barker, Andres Marquez, and Sankha Baran Dutta on microarchitectural security in multi-GPU systems.
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I will join George Mason University as an Assistant Professor next Spring.
GMU ranks 32nd overall (18th in Security) on
CSRankings
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My research interests lie in computer architecture and system security, with a particular focus on the following areas: |
| • AR/VR Security |
| • Software-based side-channel attacks on AR/VR [Security’23a] |
| • Inferring VR keystrokes via user head motion [Security’23b] |
| • Shared-state attacks in multi-user AR [Security’24] |
| • Acoustic attacks on IMU sensors in XR headsets [arXiv’25] |
| • Microarchitectural / System Security |
| • Stealing DNN models via GPU context-switching side channels [DSN’20] |
| • Model extraction using remote FPGA power side channels [TIFS] |
| • Microarchitectural attacks on NVLink [SEED’24] [arXiv’25] |
| • Exploiting GPU memory via Rowhammer mitigation techniques (RFM) [Security’25] |
• Attacking Linux/Android file systems via syncfs [S&P’25] |
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– July 2025 [Service]: I will be serving on the Program Committee for HOST 2026. Please consider submitting your work! – July 2025 [Service]: I will be serving on the Program Committee for two AR/VR workshops: VARSE 2025 (co-located with ASE 2025) and XR Seucrity 2025 (co-located with MobiHoc 2025). Please consider submitting your work! – June 2025 [Activity]: I will be joining George Mason University as an Assistant Professor starting next January! I am actively recruiting Ph.D. students to join my research group. – March 2025 [Paper]: My Ph.D. dissertation has been accepted to the HOST 2025 Ph.D. Dissertation Competition! See you in San Jose! – March 2025 [Paper]: Our paper on attacking Linux/Android file systems via |
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- Students advised: marked with #. Co-first authors: marked with *.
- Publications at top-tier computer science conferences : S&P (’25), USENIX Security (’23a, ’23b, ’24). Selected papers are highlighted.
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| International Peer Educator Training Program Certification | CRLA | 2023 |
| Conference Travel Grant | UCR GSA | 2023 |
| Student Travel Grant | 1st gem5 Boot Camp | 2022 |
| Student Travel Grant | 30th USENIX Security Symposium | 2021 |
| Student Travel Grant | 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | 2021 |
| Dean's Distinguished Fellowship Award | UC Riverside | 2021 |
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I was the lead instructor for an upper-division undergraduate course at UC Riverside in Summer 2024.
Design of Operating Systems
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While at UC Irvine, I was a teaching assistant for the following courses:
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Program Committee: EISA'23, IWSEC'23, EAI ICECI'24, VARSE'25, HOST'26 Reviewer for Conference: ICPS'20, CYBER'21-24, SecureComm'23 Reviewer for Journal: IEEE TIFS, IEEE TC, IJACT, SCN, JCS, JSA, JINS External reviewer: DATE'19/'20, CODES+ISSS'20, NDSS'20, DSN'20, RTSS'21, MICRO'22, HPCA'22 |
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In my free time, I love to play Dota 2 with my friends. I have played this game for over 5k hours (~2% of my lifetime) ╚(″⚈ᴗ⚈)╗
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Also, I like to capture the beautiful moments of our life stories with my lovely wife, Jinrun, our 世界で一番可爱い son, Tuan and our beautiful little lions (Slow Slow and Hanna). They are all Maine Coon! Subscribe our bilibili channel and watch our Vlog! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ |
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Awesome webpage template forked from Jon Barron. |