Kaixin YangPh.D. Student in DesCyPhy Lab at USC | I am Kaixin Yang (杨凯欣), a Ph.D. student 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. |
2025 | Ph.D. student, Computer Engineering, USC |
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2021 | Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering, USC |
2019 | Bachelor's Degree, Electronic and Information Science and Technology, Peking University |
May 2024 - Present | CAD Intern, Intel |
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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 |
2022 | DAC Young Fellow |
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2019 | Annenberg Fellowship |