Career Profile
Summary I am a Ph.D Student in Integrated Circuits and System Group of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Boston University. My research focus is Computer Security. During my graduate school, I have worked on 3 projects, and currently on the 4th project. I have 3 internships with 2 companies. I am looking for a full-time job in the security area and my target graduation time is Jan 2019.
Experiences
Current research work Control Flow Integrity (CFI) prevents the computer system from diverting control ow. Current commercially avail- able CFI enforcement are software-based techniques. All the hardware-assisted CFIs under research have low target precisions. I am working on developing the fine-grained CFI assisted by hardware, evaluated on RISCV evaluation platform.
Internship work I implemented a Digital Signal Processing module in the touch-screen chip design. I modeled my signal processing in Python with the builder design pattern, to validate my digital design. The builder pattern in the digital design models helped the team to model other blocks, or re-model my design in the future. To facilitate the usability of my models and validations, I also provided the websites for documenting the tools during the developments. During the integration, I designed a tool for Verilog automatic connection using Python and other scripting languages. The tool can detect the connection between dierent blocks, and generate a higher level structure that connects each individual blocks. With this tool, the high-level block generation is automated without the risk of introducing manual errors.
Internship work Real Number Modeling (RNM) is the technique to model analog blocks on the modular level, instead of continuous signal simulation. The benefits of RNM is to provide fast simulation, and direct integration with digital blocks. I mainly explored the Real Number Modeling in modeling ICs and also peripheral structures. I used Verilog, Verilog-ams, and SystemVerilog to model the current and voltage behaviors.
Projects
My past projects and related publications During my 5 1⁄4 year graduate school years, I have worked on a variety of projects related to computer system security design. Below is the listed work and publications.