I joined Bradley Department of ECE, Virginia Tech in fall, 2007. From August 2007 to May 2012, I was a Graduate Reseaerch Assistant at Secure Embedded Systems (SES) Lab in the Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA) with Prof. Patrick Schaumont as my PhD advisor. I earned a doctoral degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in May 2012.

• HW/SW Co-design for Secure Embedded Systems
• Secure Hardware Design for FPGAs and ASICs
• System-on-Chip Integration of Cryptographic Coprocessors
• Side-Channel Attacks on Cryptographic Hardware
• Fault Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• Performance Evaluation of Cryptographic Hardware and Software

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, May 2012
• Dissertation: "Secure and Efficient Implementations of Cryptographic Primitives"
• Advisor: Prof. Patrick Schaumont

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

• Master of Science in Electronic Science and Technology, April 2007.
• Dissertation: "Research and Design of Image Backend Processing Module Applied to LCD Scalar"
• Advisor: Prof. Zhenglin Liu
• Bachelor of Science in Electronic Science and Technology, July 2004.

2012 awarded by the Travel Fund Program of GSA, Virginia Tech.
2010 awarded a stipend funded under NSF grant CCF-1057551 to attend ECC2010 workshop at Redmond, WA.
2009 funded by the Pratt funds to visit ESAT/COSIC, K.U.Leuven, Belgium.
2008 awarded by the Travel Fund Program of GSA, Virginia Tech.
2008 4th Place with Honorable Mention, Embedded System Challenge in Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW08) - National Hardware Trojan Design Contest, USA.
2006 Outstanding Graduate Pace-setter, awarded by Graduate School, HUST. (10/19,000)
2006 Merit Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Informatics & Control Technologies (ICT06).
2006 Full Fellowship, Graduate School, HUST.
2006 Excellent Research Paper scholarship, Graduate School, HUST. (2/137)
2005 Outstanding Teamwork Award, 'Altera Cup' China 5th Graduate EDA Contest.
2005 Excellent Student Leader Scholarship, Graduate School, HUST. (6/137)
2004 Excellent Researcher Scholarship, Graduate School, HUST. (6/137)
2004 Best Presentation Award, Annual Academic Conference of EST Department, HUST.

Memberships:

IEEE Student Member since 2006;
ACM Student Member since 2010.

Reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE-TC)
IEEE Transactions on VLSI (IEEE-TVLSI)
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (IEEE-ESL)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (IEEE-TCAS-I)
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM-TECS)
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (ACM-TRETS)
Elsevier Integration the VLSI Journal
Springer Transactions on Computational Science (Springer-TCS)
ACTA International Journal of Computers and Applications
Springer Journal of Cryptographic Engineering

Reviewer for Conferences:

APACE'12;
CAMAM'13;
CHES'08,'09,'10,'11;
CT-RSA'12;
DAC'09,'10,'11;
DATE'09,'10,'11;
FPT'11;
HOST'09;
ICCAIE'11;
ICIMTR'12;
ICEDSA'12;
ISIEA'12;
ISCI'12;
ISWTA'12;
ReConfig'09,'10,'11;
SHUSER'12;
WESS'10;