Yingchen Wang's webpage
I am a PhD student in computer science at University of Texas at Austin. My research interests are in Applied Cryptography and Hardware Security. I am very fortunately advised by Prof.Hovav Shacham. I graduated from University of Southern California in 2019 with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Physics.
Contact
Email:yingchen AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu
Twitter:YingchenWang96
Experience
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at University of Southern California, 2017 Fall ~ 2019 Spring
- Graduate Research Assistant at University of Texas at Austin, 2019 Fall ~ Now
- Graduate Research Intern at Cloudflare, 2022 Summer
Publications
- Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86 (IEEE Micro Special Issue on Top Picks 2023)
Y. Wang*, R. Paccagnella*, E.T. He, H. Shacham, C. Fletcher, and D. Kohlbrenner
- Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86 (Usenix Security 2022)
Y. Wang*, R. Paccagnella*, E.T. He, H. Shacham, C. Fletcher, and D. Kohlbrenner
Awards:
- Black Hat Pwnie Award: Best Cryptographic Attack
- Intel Bug Bounty Award
- IEEE Micro Top Picks 2023
Talks:
- Intel Chips & Salsa Episode 19
- Invited talk at 2022 CRYPTO Workshop on Attacks in Cryptography (WAC)
- MIT Security Day; UCSB Security Seminar; Stanford Security Seminar
Media coverage:
-
Hertzbleed explained,
What’s Hertzbleed, and what’s so unique about it?,
Security. Cryptography. Whatever.
- Ars Technica,
Tom's Hardware,
phoronix,
ellipticnews,
digitaltrends,
BLEEPINGCOMPUTER,
SECURITYWEEK,
NewScientist,
The Hacker News,
PCMag,
PCWorld,
The Register,
Security Affairs,
wccftech,
beincrypto,
alwarebytes,
DARKReading,
HACKDAY,
- Hacker News
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