About Me
I am researching computer security; I have presented some of my work on microarchitectural security, side-channel cryptanalysis, and hardwear-based trusted computing such as TPM and SGX in academic conferences (Usenix Security, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, IACR CHES, ...) and industry hackercons (BlackHat USA, ToorCon, hardwear.io, RSA, ...). Starting in 2021, I will join UCSD CSE as a postdoctoral scholar under the mentorship of Nadia Heninger and Deian Stefan.
I received my PhD in ECE and MSc in CS from WPI under the supervision of Berk Sunar and Thomas Eisenbarth. During my graduate studies, I also had the privilege to temporarly (as paid intern) work with Cisco Talos and Qualcomm product security initiatve (QPSI). You can find a list of my talks here, the recording for some of them here, and my publications here or at my Google scholar profile.
Before graduate school, I worked several freelance/consultancy gigs as a software engineer, web developer, and computer security professional. I also wrote some technical blogs here on software security, particularly data-only exploitation and antivirus software vulnerabilities.
News:
- 12/04/2020
- passed my PhD defense. Here are the slides for my presentation.
- 10/01/2020
- presented JackHammer with Thore and Zane at hardwear.io Netherlands 2020.
- 09/14/2020
- joined Qualcomm Product Security as an Intern for 13 weeks.
- 09/08/2020
- was awarded UCSD CSE Postdoctoral Fellowship!
- 09/04/2020
- passed my PhD area exam. Here are the slides for my presentation.
- 08/24/2020
- served on the program committe for ASHES 2020.
- 08/16/2020
- presented TPM-Fail at Workshop on Attacks in Cryptography 2020.
- 08/14/2020
- presented three papers at Usenix Security 2020!!: CopyCat, Medusa and TPM-Fail.
- 08/06/2020
- gave my first Black Hat talk on TPM-Fail.
- 06/22/2020
- CopyCat got accepted to Usenix Security 2020.
- 04/30/2020
- presented Breaking Deployed Crypto and LVI (with Daniel and Jo at hardwear.io 2020.
- 03/15/2020
- JackHammer got accepted to TCHES 2020.
- 03/10/2020
- LVI got accepted to IEEE S&P 2020.
- 02/24/2020
- Medusa got accepted to Usenix Security 2020.
- 02/20/2020
- presented "uArch Flaws in the Heart of the Memory..." in Columbia University.
- 01/08/2020
- presented TPM-FAIL in Real World Crypto 2020.
- 11/13/2019
- visiting UCSD for a month as a graduate student visitor, hosted by Nadia Heninger.
- 11/12/2019
- TPM-FAIL got accepted to Usenix Security 2020 and Real World Crypto 2020.
- 11/09/2019
- presented ZombieLoad in ToorCon 21.
- 09/01/2019
- ZombieLoad and Fallout got accepted to ACM CCS 2019.
- 08/14/2019
- presented SPOILER in Usenix Security 2019 (Santa Clara, CA).
- 06/11/2019
- presented μArch Attacks and Cloud Accelerators in Intel SCAP Workshop (Hillsboro).
- 05/24/2019
- SPOILER got accepted to Usenix Security 2019.
- 03/12/2019
- gave an introductory talk about Intel SCAP collaboration in University of Florida.
- 01/18/2019
- attended IEEE S&P 2019 Student PC in NYC.
- 10/30/2018
- MemJam “extended” got accepted to IJPP’18 sp “Side-channel and fault analysis”.
- 08/21/2018
- MicroWalk got accepted to ACSAC’18.
- 04/17/2018
- presented MemJam in Cryptographers’ track of RSA Conference.
- 03/15/2018
- CacheQuote got accepted to TCHES’18.
- 12/10/2017
- MemJam got accepted to CT-RSA’18.
- 09/29/2017
- presented Side-channel Attacks on SGX Enclaves in NESD’17.
- 06/06/2017
- CacheZoom got accepted to CHES’17.
- 04/21/2017
- defended my MS Thesis in Computer Science.
- 01/06/2017
- attended IEEE S&P 2017 Student PC in NYC.
- 08/11/2016
- presented SCREAM in USENIX Security’16 poster session.
- 06/06/2016
- joined Cisco Talos in Austin, TX for 12 weeks as a Research Intern.
- 01/04/2016
- transferred to WPI as a Graduate Student.
- 09/22/2015
- joined WSU as a Graduate Student.