Publications

Join or contact us →

Jiajun Luo, Siyu Lin, Yunpeng Xu, Shengwei Liu, Jin Xia, Dong Liu, Zheng Liu, Huanchen Zhang, Teng Ma, Shuwen Deng (2026). SHMemora: Protective Key-Value Store on Distributed Shared Memory. ICDE 2026.

Ben Chen, Kunlin Li, Shuwen Deng, Dongsheng Wang, Yun Chen (2026). DSASSASSIN: Cross-VM Side-Channel Attacks by Exploiting Intel Data Streaming Accelerator. HPCA 2026.

Yuchen Fan, Yu Jin, Chang Liu, Minghong Sun, Xuanzeng Song, Tingting Yin, Shuwen Deng (2026). DROW: Training-Free Load Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Silicon. uASC 2026.

Tengjiao Fu, Yu Jin, Dongsheng Wang, Shuwen Deng, Yun Chen (2025). PPA: Novel Page Prefetcher-Based Side-Channel Attacks. AsianHOST 2025.
Best Paper Award.

PDF

Guiming Shi, Yuchen Wei, Shengyu Fan, Xianglong Deng, Liang Kong, Xianbin Li, Jingwei Cai, Shuwen Deng, Mingzhe Zhang, Kaisheng Ma (2025). WPC: Weight Plaintext Compression for CNN Inference based on RNS-CKKS. CCS 2025.

PDF

Yu Jin, Minghong Sun, Dongsheng Wang, Pengfei Qiu, Yinqian Zhang, Shuwen Deng (2025). GhostCache: Timer- and Counter-Free Cache Attacks Exploiting Weak Coherence on RISC-V and ARM Chips. CCS 2025.

PDF Code

Yunpeng Xu, Yuchen Fan, Teng Ma, Shuwen Deng (2025). RAGNAR: Exploring Volatile-Channel Vulnerabilities on RDMA NIC. DAC 2025.

PDF Code

Shunyu Mao, Jiajun Luo, Yixin Li, Jiapeng Zhou, Weidong Zhou, Zheng Liu, Teng Ma, Shuwen Deng (2025). CXL-Interplay: Unraveling and Characterizing CXL Interference in Modern Computer Systems. DAC 2025.

PDF Code arXiv

Kan Zhu, Yilong Zhao, Yufei Gao, Peter Braun, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci, Shuwen Deng (2025). From Optimal to Practical: Efficient Micro-op Cache Replacement Policies for Data Center Applications. HPCA 2025.

PDF

Haojie Ye, Yuchen Xia, Yuhan Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yichao Yuan, Shuwen Deng, Baris Kasikci, Trevor Mudge, Nishil Talati (2025). Palermo: Improving the Performance of Oblivious Memory using Protocol-Hardware Co-Design. HPCA 2025.

PDF

Qi Ling, Yujun Liang, Yi Ren, Baris Kasikci, Shuwen Deng (2025). GadgetMeter: Quantitatively and Accurately Gauging the Exploitability of Speculative Gadgets. NDSS 2025.

PDF

Jianfeng Wang, Huazhong Yang, Shuwen Deng, Xueqing Li (2024). CiMSAT: Exploiting SAT Analysis to Attack Compute-in-Memory Architecture Defenses. CCS 2024.

PDF

Zongle Huang, Shupei Fan, Chen Tang, Xinyuan Lin, Shuwen Deng, Yongpan Liu (2024). Hecaton: Training Large Language Models with Scalable Chiplet Systems. arXiv.

PDF

Jianfeng Wang, Shuwen Deng, Huazhong Yang, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Xueqing Li (2024). TroScan: Enhancing on-chip delivery resilience to physical attack through frequency-triggered key generation. DATE 2024.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2023). Designing Secure TLBs. IEEE D&T 2024.

PDF

Ferhat Erata, Shuwen Deng, Faisal Zaghloul, Wenjie Xiong, Onur Demir, Jakub Szefer (2023). Survey of Approaches and Techniques for Security Verification of Computer Systems. JETC 2023.

PDF

Allen Mi, Shuwen Deng, Jakub Szefer (2022). Securing Reset Operations in NISQ Quantum Computers. CCS 2022.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2022). Leaky Frontends: Micro-Op Cache and Processor Frontend Vulnerabilities. HPCA 2022.

PDF

Shuwen Deng (2022). Processor Microarchitecture Security. EliScholar
IEEE HOST Best PhD Dissertation Award
Google PhD Fellowship in Privacy and Security (3 persons/year)
The Dickerman Fellowship.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Jakub Szefer (2021). New Predictor-Based Attacks in Processors. DAC 2021.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Nikolay Matyunin, Wenjie Xiong, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Jakub Szefer (2021). Evaluation of Cache Attacks on Arm Processors and Secure Caches. IEEE TC 2021.

PDF

Allen Mi, Shuwen Deng, Jakub Szefer (2021). Device- and Locality-Specific Fingerprinting of Shared NISQ Quantum Computers. HASP 2021.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2021). Understanding Insecurity of Processor Caches Due to Cache Timing-Based Vulnerabilities. Journal of IEEE S&P 2021.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2020). A Benchmark Suite for Evaluating Caches’ Vulnerability to Timing Attacks. ASPLOS 2020.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2019). Analysis of Secure Caches using a Three-Step Model for Timing-Based Attacks. JHSS 2019.

PDF

Wen Wang, Bernhard Jungk, Julian Wälde, Shuwen Deng, Naina Gupta, Jakub Szefer, Ruben Niederhagen (2019). XMSS and Embedded Systems - XMSS Hardware Accelerators for RISC-V. SAC 2019.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2019). Secure TLBs. ISCA 2019.
Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Wenjie Xiong, Jakub Szefer (2018). Cache timing side-channel vulnerability checking with computation tree logic. HASP 2018.

PDF

Guoyong Shi, Hanbin Hu, Shuwen Deng (2017). Topological Approach to Automatic Symbolic Macromodel Generation for Analog Integrated Circuits. TODAES 2017.

PDF

Shuwen Deng, Doğuhan Gümüşoğlu, Wenjie Xiong, Y Serhan Gener, Onur Demir, Jakub Szefer (2017). Secchisel: Language and tool for practical and scalable security verification of security-aware hardware architectures. Cryptology ePrint Archive 2017.

PDF