Welcome to THU HAS Lab. Our research advances efficient, secure computing from processor microarchitectures to chips, chiplets, and interconnects.
Dr. Shuwen Deng is currently a tenure-track associate professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. She received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Department of Micro-Nano Electronics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and her PhD in engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. Her main research focuses on building efficient and secure computing infrastructure in the fields of computer architecture and hardware architecture. She has published multiple papers as the first author and corresponding author at top academic conferences such as ISCA, ASPLOS, MICRO, HPCA, CCS, and NDSS. She was awarded the 2026 First-Prize Teaching Achievement Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (2), the 2025 AsianHOST Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE HOST Best PhD Dissertation Award, the 2021 IEEE Hardware and Embedded Security Top Picks Award, the 2020 Google PhD Fellowship in Privacy and Security, and the Dickerman Fellowship.
Postgraduate (Postdoctoral), 2022.7-2023.5
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Computer Science and Engineering
Doctoral Degree in Engineering, 2016.9-2022.5
Yale University | Electrical Engineering
Master's Degree, 2016.9-2019.5
Yale University | Electrical Engineering
Bachelor's Degree in Science, 2012.9-2016.7
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Microelectronics
Edwin Rowshan Kou, External Intern , Technische Universität Berlin
Tianqi Shen, Alumni (External Intern) , University of Southern California
Shengwei Liu, Alumni (External Intern) , Cornell Tech
Xuanzeng Song, Alumni (External Intern) , Tsinghua University
Tianrui Xiao, Alumni (External Intern) , Tsinghua University
Wenjing Chen, Alumni (External Intern) , Peking University
Jinning Liu, Alumni (External Intern) , University of Toronto
Yuxi Zhu, Alumni (External Intern) , University of Toronto
Uncovering Contention-Based Side-Channel Threats in AMD Zen Chiplet Architectures
Congratulations to Yunpeng Xu, Yueteng Yu, Xuanzeng Song, and all co-authors!
Machine Learning and Hardware Security: The Role of AI for Hardware in the Security Era
Published in Machine Learning Systems: The Role of Hardware Design for Dependable Computing.
TArCS: Trusted and Attack-Resilient Clock Source with TEE and RDMA
Congratulations to Yunpeng Xu, Yuchen Fan, Yu Jin, and all co-authors!
MegaZK: A Memory Efficient GPU System Accelerating End-to-end Zero-Knowledge Proof
Congratulations to Muyang Li, Yueteng Yu, and all co-authors!
Stone-Skimming: Attacking Big-Data Analytics Applications with Page Table Walk [DAC 1793]
Congratulations to Jiajun Luo, Yu Jin, and all the co-authors!
SSBench: Automated Characterization of Memory Dependence Predictors on Modern CPUs
Congratulations to Chang Liu, Yu Jin, Yuchen Fan, Tianrui Xiao, and all the co-authors!
Congratulations to Tengjiao Fu, Yu Jin, and all the co-authors!
DROW: Training-Free Load Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Silicon
Congratulations to Yuchen Fan, Yu Jin, Chang Liu, Minghong Sun, Xuanzeng Song and all the co-authors!
SHMemora: Protective Key-Value Store on Distributed Shared Memory
Congratulations to Jiajun Luo, Siyu Lin, Yunpeng Xu, Shengwei Liu, and all the co-authors!
PPA: Novel Page Prefetcher-Based Side-Channel Attacks
Congratulations to Tengjiao Fu, Yu Jin, and all the co-authors!
GhostCache: Timer- and Counter-Free Cache Attacks Exploiting Weak Coherence on RISC-V and ARM Chips
Congratulations to Yu Jin, Minghong Sun, and all the co-authors!
1. RAGNAR: Exploring Volatile-Channel Vulnerabilities on RDMA NIC
2. CXL-Interplay: Unraveling and Characterizing CXL Interference in Modern Computer Systems
Congratulations to Yunpeng Xu, Yuchen Fan, Shunyu Mao, Jiajun Luo, and all the co-authors!