About Me

Yun Chen (陈韵) is an assistant professor at Microelectronics Thrust, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He received his PhD from National University of Singapore, advised by Prof. Trevor E. Carlson. He is experienced with CPU/GPU microarchitecture design, efficient hardware architecture, side-channel attacks, and trusted execution environment (TEE).

Openings

[INFO] I have multiple PhD/RA openings in 2025 Spring/2025 Fall, working on high-performance CPU/GPU architecture, hardware side-channel attacks and mitigations, trusted computing, and LLM for hardware security. If you are interested in joining my group, please feel free to contact me (attach your CV, Transcripts, and any other materials) at - yunchen[at]hkust-gz[dot]edu[dot]cn

News and Updates

• Nov 2023：One paper about side-channel detection on Arm TrustZone is accepted by DATE 2024!
• Oct 2023：Two papers about side-channel attacks on Intel CPUs are accepted by HPCA 2024!
• Oct 2023：Awarded the NUS Incentive Award.
• Aug 2023：Awarded the NUS Research Achievement Award.
• Feb 2023：Awarded the ASPLOS Travel Grant.
• Aug 2022：One paper about side-channel attack on Intel CPUs is accepted by ASPLOS 2023!