Yicheng Zhang

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Titles and Organizations

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: Nguyen Engineering
Room 3211
Email: yzhang95@gmu.edu

Personal Websites

Biography

Yicheng Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Riverside. Prior to that, he earned his MS in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, and his BS in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Sichuan University. His research focuses on hardware and system security, with an emphasis on microarchitectural vulnerabilities and side-channel attacks and defenses on GPUs, FPGAs, and AR/VR systems. His work aims to improve the security and trustworthiness of modern heterogeneous computing platforms and emerging immersive systems.

Research Interests

  • Hardware and system security
  • Microarchitectural vulnerabilities and defenses
  • AR/VR security and privacy
  • GPU and FPGA side-channel analysis

Degrees

  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of California-Riverside
  • MS, Computer Engineering, University of California-Irvine
  • BS, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Sichuan University

Publications

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