News & Updates

Jan 2025

Our paper, “LLM-GIFT: Large Language Models with Graphs Embedding for Hardware Information Flow Tracking”, has been invited for oral presentation at the 43rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium 2025 (VTS 2025).

Nov 2024

• I will be serving as chair of a session at IEEE Int’l Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE).
• I will be serving as Florida Cluster Initiative (FCI) faculty fellow, focusing on graduate student and postdoc engagement at FCI.

Sep 2024

Our paper, “SimEval: Investigating the Similarity Obstacle in LLM-based Hardware Code Generation”, has been accepted for oral presentation at the 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2025).

Aug 2024

• I will be serving as the Hardware Demo and Poster Chair at HOST 2024.
• I will be serving as TPC member at HOST 2024.
• I will be giving a talk (Webinar) on GenAI for security at Temple University – College of Engineering.

July 2024

• I will be serving as TPC member at DATE 2025.

June 2024

• I will be serving as chair of a session at ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2024).
• I will be serving as chair of a session at IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2024).

May 2024

• Our paper, “Self-HWDebug: Automation of LLM Self-Instructing for Hardware Security Verification”, has been accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI 2024).
• I will be serving as TPC member at ICCD 2024.

Apr 2024

• Our paper, “Evolutionary Large Language Models for Hardware Security: A Comparative Survey”, has been accepted for oral presentation at the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2024).
• Our paper, “From Full-Custom to Gate-Array ASIC for Hardware IP Protection”, has been invited to appear in the 17th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS 2024).

March 2024

• Our paper, “Advancing Trustworthiness in System-in-Package: A Novel Root-of-Trust Hardware Security Module for Heterogeneous Integration”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Access.
• I will be serving as TPC member at GLSVLSI 2024.
• I will be serving as TPC member at ISVLSI 2024.

Feb 2024

Our paper, “GATE-SiP: Enabling Authenticated Encryption Testing in Systems-in-Package”, has been accepted for oral presentation at the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2024).

Jan 2024

• Our paper, “Improving Bounded Model Checkers Scalability for Circuit De-obfuscation: An Exploration”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS).
• Our paper, “Exploring the Abyss? Unveiling Systems-on-Chip Hardware Vulnerabilities beneath Software”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS).

Dec 2023

Our paper, “PQC-HI: PQC-enabled Chiplet Authentication and Key Exchange in Heterogeneous Integration”, has been accepted for publication in the 74th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (IEEE ECTC 2024).

Nov 2023

I will be giving a talk on hardware security automation at University of Central Florida, College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) Virtual Series.

Sep 2023

Our paper, “SiPGuard: Run-time System-in-Package Security Monitoring via Power Noise Variation”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAD).

Aug 2023

Our paper, “PALLET: Protecting Analog Devices using a Last-Level Edit Technique”, has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (IEEE PAINE 2023).