TArCS: Trusted and Attack-Resilient Clock Source with TEE and RDMA
Yunpeng Xu, Yuchen Fan, Yu Jin, Shuangjie Yao, Jia Zhang, Teng Ma, Shuwen Deng
17th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (APPT'26), 2026
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Education
- Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Aug 2026 - present
- B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Sept 2022 - June 2026
- GPA: 3.9/4.0; earned A+ in 52 of 152 GPA-related credits
- Rank: 3rd out of 267 students (top 1%)
Honors and Awards
- Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate (top 4%), June 2026
- Tsinghua Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, June 2026
- China National Scholarship, 2024 and 2025
- Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 2023, 2024, and 2025
- Second Prize, NSCSCC’26 (Loongson Cup), Aug 2026
- Third Prize, NSCSCC’24 (Loongson Cup), Aug 2024
Publications
Application-Driven Architecture Exploration for Cross-Layer Heterogeneous Systems
Yuchen Fan, Minghong Sun, Jikui Ma, Yunpeng Xu, Shunyu Mao, Liu He, Shunan Dong, Jiahao Yang, Yu Zhu, Xinhao Yang, Tianyan Zhong, Haoran Sun, Daoqi Liu, Zongle Huang, Xinyuan Lin, Huazhong Yang, Maokun Li, Yongpan Liu, Yu Wang, Zhenhua Zhu, Hongyang Jia, Shuwen Deng
arXiv:2607.23042, 2026
SSBench: Automated Characterization of Memory Dependence Predictors on Modern CPUs
Chang Liu, Yu Jin, Yuchen Fan, Tianrui Xiao, Lingfeng Yin, Trevor E. Carlson, Shuwen Deng, Dongsheng Wang
53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'26), 2026
DROW: Training-Free Load Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Silicon
Yuchen Fan, Yu Jin, Chang Liu, Minghong Sun, Xuanzeng Song, Tingting Yin, Shuwen Deng
2nd Microarchitecture Security Conference (uASC'26), 2026
Ragnar: Exploring Volatile-Channel Vulnerabilities on RDMA NIC
Yunpeng Xu, Yuchen Fan, Teng Ma, Shuwen Deng
62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'25), 2025
Projects
- Research on Black-box Microarchitecture Reverse Engineering and Timing Side-Channel Security Threats in Modern Computing Systems, Sept 2025 - June 2026
- Supported by the Youth Student Basic Research Project (Undergraduate Students) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 625B1004)
Technical Skills
- Programming: C/C++, Python, Verilog, Bash, SpinalHDL, JavaScript
- Tools: Linux, Docker, Git, PyTorch, Cadence, Vivado
- Mathematics: Calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, probability theory, and stochastic processes