News: I moved to the School of Microelectronics, Shandong University.

News: I joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Old Dominion University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2017. Multiple Teaching Assistantship (TA)/ Research Assistantship (RA) positions are available for Spring 2018 and Fall 2018.

E-mail: weizeyu@mail.usf.edu

● Research Interests

Hardware/Cyber security; Cryptography; Computer-aided design (CAD); VLSI design; Power management IC; Internet of things (IoT); Machine-learning; Convex optimization; Canonical correlation analysis (CCA); Quantum optimization

●Work Experience

Shandong University, Jinan, China

Professor Sept. 2020-Present

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

Assistant Professor Aug. 2017-Aug. 2020

●Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, Sept. 2014-Summer 2017

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,

Blacksburg, VA, USA, Jan. 2013-May 2014

Master of Science (M.S.) in Microelectronics

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China, Sept. 2009-Jun. 2012

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Microelectronics

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P. R. China, Sept. 2005-Jun. 2009

● Publications

Journals

[22]. Y. Wen and W. Yu, “Combining thermal maps with Inception neural networks for hardware Trojan detection,” IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, accepted in June 2020.

[21]. W. Yu, “Optimization of Combined Power and Modeling Attacks on VR PUFs with Lagrange Multipliers,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, accepted in March 2020.

[20]. W. Yu and Y. Wen, “Leveraging Balanced Logic Gates as Strong PUFs for Securing IoT Against Malicious Attacks,” Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (Springer), vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 853-865, December 2019.

[19]. Y. Wen and W. Yu, “Boosting the efficacy of power attacks on cryptographic circuits with autoencoder,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 23, pp. 1221-1224, November 2019.

[18]. W. Yu, Y. Wen, and X. Huang, “ResNet-based Trojan detection methodology for protected ICs,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 21, pp. 1116-1118, October 2019.

[17]. W. Yu and Y. Wen, “Efficient hybrid side-channel/machine learning attack on XOR PUFs,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 20, pp. 1080-1082, October 2019.

[16]. Y. Wen and W. Yu, “Machine learning-resistant pseudo-random number generator,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 515-517, May 2019. (feature article)

[15]. W. Yu, “Hardware Trojan attacks on voltage scaling-based side-channel attack countermeasure,” IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 321-326, May 2019.

[14]. W. Yu, “Convolutional neural network attack on cryptographic circuits,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 246-248, March 2019.

[13]. W. Yu, Y. Wen, S. Köse, and J. Chen, “Exploiting Multi-Phase On-Chip Voltage Regulators as Strong PUF Primitives for Securing IoT,” Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (Springer), vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 587-598, October 2018.

[12]. W. Yu and J. Chen, “Deep learning-assisted and combined attack: a novel side-channel attack,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 54, no. 19, pp. 1114-1116, September 2018. (feature article)

[11]. C. Huang, Y. Yang, B. Wu, and W. Yu, “RGB-to-RGBG conversion algorithm with adaptive weighting factors based on edge detection and minimal square error,” Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA) A, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 969-976, June 2018.

[10]. W. Yu and J. Chen, “Masked AES PUF: a new PUF against hybrid SCA/MLAs,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 618-620, May 2018. (feature article)

[9]. W. Yu and S. Köse, “Exploiting Voltage Regulators to Enhance Various Power Attack Countermeasures,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 244-257, April-June 2018.

[8]. W. Yu and S. Köse, “False Key-Controlled Aggressive Voltage Scaling: A Countermeasure Against LPA Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 2149-2153, December 2017.

[7]. W. Yu and S. Köse, “A Lightweight Masked AES Implementation for Securing IoT Against CPA Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 2934-2944, November 2017.

[6]. W. Yu and S. Köse, “Security-Adaptive Voltage Conversion as a Lightweight Countermeasure Against LPA Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 2183-2187, July 2017.