My research focus includes computer architecture, computer system security, applied machine learning and embedded system.
I completed her Ph.D at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California Davis advised by Dr.Houman Homayoun. I received Bachelor degree in computer science at South Central University for Nationalities in China and Master degree in computer engineering at George Mason University, USA.
Efficient Computing for Deep Learning
Micro-architectural Attacks
Computer System Security
Applied Machine Learning
Embedded System
Apr 2023: I am honored to receive Young Electrical Engineer of the Year award under Philadelphia Section!
Apr 2023: Two patents about hardware-assisted detection are approved.
Feb 2023: I will serve as TPC in PAINE 2023.
Feb 2023: I will serve as TPC in GLSVLSI 2023.
January 2023: Jialin Liu joined the lab and starts his Ph.D. program.
January 2023: New paper proposing defense against co-location in cloud is accepted to NDSS 2023!
February 2022: New paper targeting DNN Architectural Leakage on CPU-GPU Edge Devices is accepted to EuroS&P 2022.
November 2021: New paper targeting DNN Inference Labels via Side-Channel Attack is accepted to DATE 2022.
November 2021: New Machine Learning-based Detection is accepted to JETCAS 2021.
September 2021: New attack paper targeting cloud schedulers is accepted to NDSS 2022. News
January 2021: Joined Intel Noyce Project as Intel-sponsored Noyce Fellow. Webpage.
September 2020: Zero-day SCAs Detection got accepted in ICMLA 2020 as full paper!
August 2020: Paper on SCAs Detection and Identification got accepted in ICCD 2020 as full paper!
July 2020: Paper on SCAs Detection-Mitigation ICCAD 2020!
July 2020: Paper on Machine Learning based Microarhictural Attacks Defense got accepted in GLSVLSI 2020!
May 2020:Paper on SCAs Real-time Detection got accepted in IOLTS 2020!
November 2019: Paper on Light-weight SCAs Mitigation got accepted in DATE 2020!
September.2019: Paper on Big Data Application Scheduling got accepted in ICPADS 2019!
October.2018: Attend AI Compute Symposium and presenting poster "big data application scheduling".
June.2018: Received DAC Young Fellow and attend the poster session.
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2021.
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), 2021.
External Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2021.
Volunteer Organizer for ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2019.
Poster Presentation at the DAC Young Fellows Poster session, 2018.
Poster Presentation at the IBM IEEE CAS/EDS – AI Compute Symposium "From Brain to Brainstorming for AI", 2018.
Remote Presentation at Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2020.
Remote Presentation at IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), 2020.
Remote Presentation at IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020.
Remote Presentation at International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2020.
Remote Presentation at IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2020.
Remote Presentation at Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020.
Remote Presentation at International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2021.
Remote Presentation at IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2021.