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About Me

  • I am a research assistant in the NuLogiCS Research Group of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department advised by Dr. Hai Zhou at Northwestern University.
  • I received a Bachelor of Sicence in Computer Science in 2017 from Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • My research lies at the intersection of Machine Learning and Electronic Design Automation (EDA), with a focus on hardware security.
  • I am actively looking for opportunities for academic cooperation and innovation and entrepreneurship.

Recent News

  • Sep 2025. Submitted a paper on eFPGA-based hardware IP protection techniques to DATE 2026.
  • Sep 2025. A paper on AI accelerator security with hardware-software co-design approaches passed phase 1 review at AAAI 2026.
  • Sep 2025. Serving as TA for COMP_ENG 203 “Introduction to Computer Engineering” (Fall 2025).
  • Apr 2025. Serving as TA for COMP_ENG 357 “Design Automation in VLSI” (Spring 2025).
  • Feb 2025. Our paper RE3: Finding Refinement Relations with Relational Mapping Abstraction was accepted by DAC 2025.
  • Nov 2024. Our paper DE2: SAT-based sequential logic decryption with a functional description was accepted by DATE 2025.

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