Papers

Conference Papers

• [DAC] ISA-PM: A Unified ISA Extension and Microarchitecture Enabling Efficient ECPM in IoT Devices
  • Zhaoyuan Li, Kun Yang*, Kui Ren
  • ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026.
• [Inscrypt] LogWhisperer: Multi-log Semantic Similarity Analysis Based Intelligent Vehicle Anomaly Detection Without Log Template
  • Hongyi Guo, Kun Yang*, Kui Ren
  • International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt), 2025.
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• [DAC] CDS: An Anti-Aging Calibratable Digital Sensor for Detecting Multiple Types of Fault Injection Attacks
  • Zhiyuan Chen, Kun Yang*, Kui Ren
  • ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024.
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• [NTECH] Crypto Accelerator DPA Resistance Evaluation and Enhancement [Best Paper Award (1st Place)]
  • Kun Yang, Weiping Pan, Yuji Qian, Xiao Wu, Shuai Wang, Xinxing Hu, Chen Yao, Zhili Wang, Xixi Xie, Paul Chou
  • NVIDIA NTECH Conference, 2020.
• [NTECH] Cryptosystem Side-Channel Leakage Assessment Using STIM Time-Based Power
  • Weiping Pan, Kun Yang, Li Chen, Xixi Xie, Paul Chou, Shuai Wang, Xinxing Hu, Chen Yao, Rongzhe Zhu
  • NVIDIA NTECH Conference, 2019.
• [GOMACTech] RASC: Enabling Remote Access to Side-Channels for Mission Critical Systems
  • Andrew Stern, Kun Yang, Jason Vosatka, Adam Duncan, Jungmin Park, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), 2019.
• [AsianHOST] A Split Manufacturing Approach for Unclonable Chipless RFIDs for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Security
  • Kun Yang, Ulbert Botero, Haoting Shen, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • IEEE Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), 2017.
• [HOST] UCR: An Unclonable Chipless RFID Tag [Best Paper Award Nomination]
  • Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2016.
• [DAC] AVFSM: A Framework for Identifying and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in FSMs
  • Adib Nahiyan, Kan Xiao, Kun Yang, Yier Jin, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2016.
• [ICCAD] Protecting Endpoint Devices in IoT Supply Chain
  • Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2015.
• [RFIDSec] ReSC: RFID-Enabled Supply Chain Management and Traceability for Network Devices
  • Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • The 11th Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec), 2015.
• [HST] An RFID-Based Technology for Electronic Component and System Counterfeit Detection and Traceability
  • Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2015.
• [ICEPT-HDP] The Impact of Wire Bonding on the Transmission Performance of High Speed Links in SiP
  • Kun Yang, Wei Gao, Zhihua Li, Lixi Wan
  • IEEE International Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging (ICEPT-HDP), 2011.
• [ICEPT-HDP] A New Measurement Method and Electrical Design for High Density Optoelectronics Integration
  • Fengman Liu, Baoxia Li, Yunyan Zhou, Wei Gao, Haifei Xiang, Haidong Wang, Jian Song, Zhihua Li, Kun Yang, Jun Li, Liqiang Cao, Lixi Wan
  • IEEE International Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging (ICEPT-HDP), 2011.
• [ACP] A 9pJ/bit SOP Optical Transceiver with 80 Gbps Two-Way Bandwidth
  • Fengman Liu, Baoxia Li, Zhihua Li, Lixi Wan, Wei Gao, Yanbiao Chu, Tianmin Du, Jian Song, Haifei Xiang, Haidong Wang, Kun Yang, Binbin Yang
  • SPIE/OSA/IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2011.

Conference Posters

• [DAC] LUT-MM: An Efficient Lookup Table-Based Approach for Modular Multiplication
  • Zhaoyuan Li, Kun Yang*, Kui Ren
  • 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.

Conference Demos

• [HOST] RASC: Enabling Remote Access to Side-Channels
  • Andrew Stern, Kun Yang, Yunkai Bai, Jason Vosatka, Adam Duncan, Jungmin Park, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2019.
• [HOST] UCR: An Unclonable Environmentally-Sensitive Chipless RFID Tag
  • Kun Yang, Haoting Shen, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2017.
• [HOST] ReSC: An RFID-Enabled Solution for Defending IoT Supply Chain
  • Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • IEEE Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2016.

Journal Papers

• [AES] Research Framework and Anticipated Results of Key Technologies for Distributed Certificate-Less Network Identity Systems
  • Xiaosong Zhang, Sheng Cao, Tianbo Lu, Kun Yang, Xun Gui, Guotao Xie, Weina Niu
  • Advanced Engineering Sciences, Volume 57 Issue 3, pp.1-10, May 2025.
• [JoC] A Survey of Cybersecurity for Intelligent Connected Vehicles [Annual Outstanding Academic Paper Award]
  • Kui Ren, Kun Yang*, Haoting Shen, Feng Lin, Dakun Shen
  • Journal of Cybersecurity, Volume 2 Issue 6, pp.16-35, Dec 2024.
• [TC] A Unified and Fully Automated Framework for Wavelet-based Attacks on Random Delay
  • Qianmei Wu, Fan Zhang, Shize Guo, Kun Yang*, Haoting Shen
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Volume 73 Issue 9, pp.2206-2219, Sep 2024.
• [TCAD] A Deep Investigation on Stealthy DVFS Fault Injection Attacks at DNN Hardware Accelerators
  • Fan Zhang, Junge Xu, Wenguang Jin, Kun Yang*, Zeke Wang, Weixiong Jiang, Yajun Ha
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2024.3426364, Jul 2024.
• [TODAES] UCR: An Unclonable Environmentally Sensitive Chipless RFID Tag for Protecting Supply Chain
  • Kun Yang, Ulbert Botero, Haoting Shen, Damon Woodard, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 23 Issue 6, Article No. 74, Dec 2018.
• [TODAES] ReSC: An RFID-Enabled Solution for Defending IoT Supply Chain
  • Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 23 Issue 3, Article No. 29, Apr 2018.
• [TODAES] Hardware-Enabled Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Security
  • Kun Yang, Haoting Shen, Domenic Forte, Swarup Bhunia, Mark Tehranipoor
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 23 Issue 2, Article No. 23, Jan 2018.
• [TODAES] CDTA: A Comprehensive Solution for Counterfeit Detection, Traceability and Authentication in the IoT Supply Chain
  • Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 22 Issue 3, Article No. 42, May 2017.
• [FIO] A 10-Gbps × 12-Channel Pluggable Parallel Optical Transceiver Based on CXP Interface Specifications
  • Kun Yang, Zhihua Li, Baoxia Li, Wei Gao, Fengman Liu, Jian Song, Lixi Wan
  • Fiber and Integrated Optics, Volume 31 Issue 3, pp.164-177, Jun 2012.

Patents

US Patents

• Comprehensively Obfuscated Cryptographic Accelerators and Operations Thereof Kun Yang, Zhili Wang, Xinxing Hu US Patent No. US12153688B2 | Granted: 2024-11-26
• Techniques, Devices, and Instruction Set Architecture for Balanced and Secure Ladder Computations Shuai Wang, Chen Yao, Xiao Wu, Rongzhe Zhu, Yuji Qian, Kun Yang, Weiping Pan, Xixi Xie US Patent No. US12003633B2 | Granted: 2024-06-04
• Efficient Masking of Secure Data in Ladder-Type Cryptographic Computations Shuai Wang, Chen Yao, Xiao Wu, Rongzhe Zhu, Yuji Qian, Kun Yang, Xixi Xie US Patent No. US11985221B2 | Granted: 2024-05-14
• Cross-Registration for Unclonable Chipless RFID Tags Mark Tehranipoor, Kun Yang, Domenic Forte, Ulbert Botero, Haoting Shen US Patent No. US10929741B2 | Granted: 2021-02-23
• Unclonable Environmentally-Sensitive Chipless RFID Tag with A Plurality of Slot Resonators Mark Tehranipoor, Haoting Shen, Kun Yang, Domenic Forte US Patent No. US10181065B2 | Granted: 2019-01-15

Chinese Patents

• Autonomous Driving Safety Evaluation Method, System, Device and Readable Storage Medium Kun Yang, Name Withheld by Request, Kui Ren Chinese Patent Number: ZLxx | Authorization Announcement Number: CNxxx | Granted: 2026-xx-xx
• Feature Enhancement Processing Method, Apparatus, Computer Device and Computer-Readable Storage Medium Yuanfang Chen, Linjian Chen, Yuyang Luo, Jiashun Ju, Kun Yang Chinese Patent Number: ZL202610003602.5 | Authorization Announcement Number: CN121459119B | Granted: 2026-03-17
• Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection Method Based on Causal Learning Yuanfang Chen, Jiashun Ju, Xing Fang, Yuyang Luo, Kun Yang Chinese Patent Number: ZL202610013458.3 | Authorization Announcement Number: CN121459081B | Granted: 2026-03-17
• Distributed TEE System and Communication Method Based on Distributed TEE System Kun Yang, Sisi Li, Kui Ren Chinese Patent Number: ZL202411566653.6 | Authorization Announcement Number: CN119728090A | Granted: 2026-01-19
• Lookup Table-Based Modular Multiplier and Modular Multiplication Operation Method Kun Yang, Zhaoyuan Li, Kui Ren Chinese Patent Number: ZL202511222332.9 | Authorization Announcement Number: CN120723202B | Granted: 2026-01-02
• A Chip Attack Detection Circuit Kun Yang, Zhiyuan Chen, Kui Ren Chinese Patent Number: ZL202310105025.7 | Authorization Announcement Number: CN116208314B | Granted: 2025-11-14
• A High-Throughput Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generator and Method for FPGA Kun Yang, Zhiyuan Chen, Xingjian Tian, Kui Ren Chinese Patent Number: ZL202510402023.3 | Authorization Announcement Number: CN119917064B | Granted: 2025-06-27

Software Copyrights

• RISC-V-based TEE Peripheral Security Extension System [SPHERE] V1.0 Registration No.: 2026SR0004099 | Registration Date: 2026-01-04
• Trusted Execution Environment Security System for Intelligent Vehicle Chips Oriented to High Real-Time and Low Resource Requirements [FastTEE] V1.0 Registration No.: 2025SR2422375 | Registration Date: 2025-12-16