Yicheng(亦成) Zhang

I am a Ph.D. at UC Riverside, where I am fortunately advised by Prof. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh.

Prior to that, I received my M.Sc. from UC Irvine, and my B.S. from Sichuan University.

My interest lies in computer security and computer architecture.

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Recent News

– November 2023: I presented our work at SC'23 Workshop in Denver.

– September 2023: One paper accepted by SC'23 Workshop.

– September 2023: I finished my internship at PNNL.

– August 2023: I presented It's all in your head(set) at Usenix Security 2023 in Anaheim.

– August 2023: Our AR/VR security research got reported in the news [UCR News][ZME Science]!

Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering 2021-2025
University of California, Riverside | Riverside, California
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering 2018-2020
University of California, Irvine | Irvine, California
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Automation 2014-2018
Sichuan University | Chengdu, Sichuan
Publications
SC Workshop 2023
Accuracy-Constrained Efficiency Optimization and GPU Profiling of CNN Inference for Detecting Drainage Crossing Locations
Yicheng Zhang, Dhroov Pandey, Di Wu, Turja Kundu, Ruopu Li, Tong Shu
SC'23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis, Denver, CO, USA, November, 2023.
PDF / Slides / BibTex
arXiv Preprint 2023
That Doesn't Go There: Attacks on Shared State in Multi-User Augmented Reality Applications
Carter Slocum*, Yicheng Zhang*, Erfan Shayegani, Pedram Zaree, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Jiasi Chen
*Equal contribution.
arXiv Preprint, August, 2023.
PDF / BibTex
Usenix Sec 2023
Going through the motions: AR/VR keylogging from user head motions
Carter Slocum, Yicheng Zhang, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Jiasi Chen
The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August, 2023.
PDF / Slides / BibTex / Blog (In Chinese)
*Media Coverage*: [UCR News] [Game Is Hard] [Gillett News] [Tech Xplore]
Usenix Sec 2023
It's all in your head(set): Side-channel attacks on AR/VR systems
Yicheng Zhang, Carter Slocum, Jiasi Chen, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August, 2023.
PDF / Slides / BibTex / Blog (In Chinese)
*Media Coverage*: [UCR News] [ZME Science] [Fagen Wasanni] [Analytics Insight]
IEEE TIFS 2021
Stealing Neural Network Structure through Remote FPGA Side-channel Analysis
Yicheng Zhang, Rozhin Yasaei, Hao Chen, Zhou Li, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, August, 2021.
PDF / Slides / BibTex
FPGA 2021
Poster: Stealing Neural Network Structure through Remote FPGA Side-channel Analysis
Yicheng Zhang, Rozhin Yasaei, Hao Chen, Zhou Li, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
The 2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, Virtual Event USA, February, 2021.
Abstract / BibTex
DSN 2020
Leaky DNN: Stealing Deep-Learning Model Secret with GPU Context-Switching Side-Channel
Junyi Wei*, Yicheng Zhang*, Zhe Zhou, Zhou Li, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
*Equal contribution.
The 50th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Valencia, Spain, June, 2020.
Acceptance Rate: 16.5% (48/291)
PDF / Slides / Video / Code / BibTex
Honors and Awards
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
Sichuan University Scholarship | Sichuan University 2014-2018
Outstanding Students Leader | Sichuan University 2016
Teaching
teaching

While at UC Irvine, I was a teaching assistant for the following courses:

Continuous-Time Signals and Systems
TA for EECS150 - Winter 2020

Sytem Software
TA for EECS111 - Spring 2020

Object Oriented System Programming
TA for EECS40 - Fall 2020

Next Generation Search Systems
TA for CS125 - Winter 2021

Organization of Digital Computers
TA for EECS112 - Spring 2021

Professional Service

Program Committee: EISA'23, IWSEC'23

Reviewer for Conference: ICPS'20, CYBER'21, CYBER'22, SecureComm'23

Reviewer for Journal: IEEE TIFS, IEEE TC, IJACT, SCN, JCS, JSA, JINS

Sub-reviewer: DATE'19/'20, CODES+ISSS'20, NDSS'20, DSN'20, RTSS'21, MICRO'22, HPCA'22

Student Volunteer: SEED'24

Artifact Evaluation: MICRO'22

About me
teaching

In my free time, I love to ride road bikes. In the summer of 2018, I cycled around Taiwan island with my friends. I was a member of University of California Irvine Cycling Club and was the leader of Sichuan University Cycling Club.

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Also, I like to capture the beautiful moments of our life stories with my lovely wife, Jinrun, our cutest son, Tuan and our beautiful little lions (Slow Slow and Hanna). They are all Maine Coon!

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