KAIXIN YANG

KAIXIN YANG

Ph.D. Candidate in the DesCyPhy Lab at USC

I am Kaixin Yang (杨凯欣), a Ph.D. candidate in DesCyPhy Lab at University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Pierluigi Nuzzo. I am interested in hardware security and trustworthy hardware design, as well as machine learning (ML)-based approaches to them. Recently, I focus on logic locking for gate-level VLSI design, Satisfiability (SAT) based attacks and ML-based attacks on encrypted design, secure high level synthesis, metrics for evaluating and guiding trustworthy design, and design space exploration for risk-free hardware design.

EDUCATION

2025 Ph.D. candidate, Computer Engineering, USC
2021 Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering, USC
2019 Bachelor's Degree, Electronic and Information Science and Technology, Peking University (PKU)

EXPERIENCE

May 2024 - Present CAD Intern, Intel
Aug 2020 - Present Research Assistant, USC
Spring 2022 Teaching Assistant, EE577a, USC
Spring 2019 Teaching Assistant, Practice for Programming, PKU
Fall 2021 Teaching Assistant, EE477L, USC
Summer 2023 VSI Program Mentor, USC
Summer 2023, Summer 2022 SHINE Program Mentor, USC
Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021 EE581 Project Mentor, USC

HONORS AND AWARDS

2022 DAC Young Fellow
2019 Annenberg Fellowship

NEWS

May 2024 I will join Intel as a CAD intern.
Apr 2024 Our paper "DECOR: Enhancing Logic Locking Against Machine Learning-Based Attacks has been accepted at International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) 2024.
Apr 2023 Our paper "SimLL: Similarity-Based Logic Locking Against Machine Learning Attacks" has been accepted at Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023.
Apr 2023 Our collaboration work "Unraveling Latch Locking Using Machine Learning, Boolean Analysis, and ILP" with Prof. Beerel's group has been accepted at International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) 2023.
Mar 2023 Our paper "On the Security of Sequential Logic Locking Against Oracle-Guided Attacks" has been published at IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
Apr 2022 I have been selected to participate in the Young Fellows program promoted by the 59h Design Automation Conference (DAC).
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