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I am a four-year PhD candidate 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. 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'm interested in computer architecture and system security, with a 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 with GPU context-switching side-channel [DSN’20] |
| • Model extraction attacks with remote FPGA power side-channel [TIFS] |
| • Microarchitectural attacks on NVLink [SEED'24][arXiv'25] |
| • Exploiting GPU memories via rowhammer mitigations (RFM) [Security’25] |
| • Attacking Linux/Android file system via syncfs [S&P'25] |
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– June 2025: I will be joining George Mason University as an Assistant Professor starting next January! The new lab website is coming soon! – March 2025: My PhD dissertation has been accepted by HOST 2025 PhD Dissertation Competition! See you in San Jose! – March 2025: Our paper on attacking Linux/Android file system via syncfs has been accepted by IEEE S&P 2025! Shout out to Cheng — he will be joining the University of Rochester as a PhD student. Congrats! – January 2025: Our paper on attacking GPUs via Rowhammer RFM mitigation has been accepted by USENIX Security 2025! Shout out to Ravan! – September 2024: We wrote a Blog for Microarchitecture Security Research at USENIX Security 2024. |
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Sichuan University Scholarship | Sichuan University | 2014-2018 |
| Outstanding Students Leader | Sichuan University | 2016 |
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I was the lead instructor for an upper-division undergraduate course at UC Riverside in Summer 2024.
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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 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, ASPLOS'24 Artifact Evaluation: MICRO'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 from Jon Barron |