THU Hardware Architecture Security
Our main research contents include:
- Security Attacks and Defense in Processor Microarchitecture
- Trusted Execution Environment
- Secure Hardware Design for Privacy Computing
- High-Speed Interconnection Protocol Security
Shuwen Deng is currently the tenure-track assistant professor in Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. She received Ph.D. from Yale University, and has been a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Michigan. Her research interests span computer architecture and interconnects, hardware security, and privacy computing. She has published in top conferences, such as ISCA, ASPLOS, HPCA, and CCS. She is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE HOST Best PhD Dissertation Award, the 2020 Google PhD Fellowship in Privacy and Security, and an Elihu Elias Dickerman Fellowship. She has been named a Rising Star in EECS by the University of California Berkeley. Her work has been selected as Top Picks 2021 in Hardware and Embedded Security.
- Computer Architecture and Interconnects
- Hardware and System Architecture Security
- Private Computing and Trusted Execution Environment
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Postgraduate (Postdoctoral), 2022.7-2023.5
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Computer Science and Engineering
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Doctoral Degree in Engineering, 2016.9-2022.5
Yale University | Electrical Engineering
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Master's Degree, 2016.9-2019.5
Yale University | Electrical Engineering
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Bachelor's Degree in Science, 2012.9-2016.7
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Microelectronics
Meet the Team
Director
Shuwen Deng
Assistant Professor
Students
Yuchen Fan
Undergraduate Student
Bin Fan
Undergraduate Student
Yu Jin
Ph.D. Student
Khor Ee
Master Student
Muyang Li
Ph.D. Student
Siyu Lin
Master Student
Jiajun Luo
Ph.D. Student
Shunyu Mao
Ph.D. Student
Yunpeng Xu
Ph.D. Student
Yueteng Yu
Master Student
External Interns and Alumni
Edwin Rowshan Kou, External Intern , Technische Universität Berlin
Latest News
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Uncovering Contention-Based Side-Channel Threats in AMD Zen Chiplet Architectures
Congratulations to Yunpeng Xu, Yueteng Yu, Xuanzeng Song, and all co-authors!
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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.
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TArCS: Trusted and Attack-Resilient Clock Source with TEE and RDMA
Congratulations to Yunpeng Xu, Yuchen Fan, Yu Jin, and all co-authors!
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MegaZK: A Memory Efficient GPU System Accelerating End-to-end Zero-Knowledge Proof
Congratulations to Muyang Li, Yueteng Yu, and all co-authors!
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Stone-Skimming: Attacking Big-Data Analytics Applications with Page Table Walk [DAC 1793]
Congratulations to Jiajun Luo, Yu Jin, and all the co-authors!
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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!
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Congratulations to Tengjiao Fu, Yu Jin, and all the co-authors!
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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!
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SHMemora: Protective Key-Value Store on Distributed Shared Memory
Congratulations to Jiajun Luo, Siyu Lin, Yunpeng Xu, Shengwei Liu, and all the co-authors!
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PPA: Novel Page Prefetcher-Based Side-Channel Attacks
Congratulations to Tengjiao Fu, Yu Jin, and all the co-authors!
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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!
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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!
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