Yanan (Yaya) Guo
Hi there! I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. I received my Ph.D. from Pitt, where I worked with my advisor Dr. Jun Yang on computer architecture and computer security.
My research interests lie in computer architecture and cybersecurity, with a focus on the following areas:
Microarchitectural side channels.
Memory encryption and authentication.
Memory exploits and defenses.
Research Highlights:
HW: Cache Coherence Attacks [Oakland'22]
HW: Cache Conflict Attacks [MICRO'22]
HW: Uncore Frequency Scaling Attacks [MICRO'23]
SW: GPU ROP Attacks [USENIX Seurity'24]
Openings: I am looking for new PhD students to join my research team. If you are passionate about related research topics, please email with your CV and a brief introduction of your research interests.
Office Hours: I dedicate 30 minutes every week to provide guidance or suggestions for first-generation college or underrepresented students. If you need help or wish to discuss topics such as life, career paths, graduate school applications, or research ideas, please fill out the form to arrange a meeting.
Contact Info
3403 Wegmans Hall
585-275-5671
Recent News
07/2024: I will be serving on the Program Committee for HASP'24, please consider to submit!
07/2024: I will be serving on the Program Committee for HPCA'24, please consider to submit!
06/2024: Our paper on quantum circuit cutting is accepted to ASPLOS'24 (will be presented at ASPLOS 2025).
06/2024: Our paper on GPU memory corruption attacks is accepted to USENIX Security'24.
04/2024: Our paper on memory safety protection is accepted to ICS'24.
03/2024: Our paper on GPU side channels is accepted to USENIX Security'24.
09/2023: I will be serving on the Program Committee for SEED'24, please consider to submit!
07/2023: Two papers are accepted to MICRO'23.
04/2023: Our paper on defending adversarial attacks is accepted to ICML'23.
02/2023: Our paper has been selected as TC Featured Paper of the Month.
12/2022: I gave a talk on side channel attacks at Southeast University.
09/2022: Our paper on defending bit flip attacks is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computers.
07/2022: Our paper on way-conflict based cache attacks is accepted to MICRO'22.
06/2022: The code of adversarial prefetch is available on github now.
05/2022: Started an internship at NVIDIA, will be working on offensive hardware security research.
03/2022: Our paper on data prefetching based cache side channel attacks is accepted to S&P'22.
02/2022: Our paper on attacking the adaptive line control systems is accepted to AutoSec'22.
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