Post-quantum cryptography related design, implementation and security analysis
Novel algorithm-architecture fault attack and detection methodologies for pre-/post-quantum cryptographic circuits
Hardware IP protection and hardware security primitives for resource-constrained systems
VLSI digital signal processing and neural network systems design
New digital design and acceleration techniques for sophisticated aeronautical telemetry systems
Villanova Security and Cryptography (SAC) Lab
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 01/2013 - 12/2014
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China 09/2007 - 07/2010
M. E. in Control Science and Engineering
Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China 09/2002 - 07/2006
B. E. in Measurement & Control Technology and Instrumentation
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, August 2018 - Present
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, January 2015 - July 2018
Research Assistant/Teaching Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, January 2013 - December 2014. Project: Novel cryptographic circuits for emerging embedded systems security
Research Assistant, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, September 2010 - June 2012. Projects: Hardware efficient implementation of cryptographic circuits and digital signal/image processing systems
Research Assistant, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, September 2007 - June 2010. Project: FPGA-based portable B-ultrasonic diagnosis device
Senior Member of IEEE (CAS, Computer, and Blockchain Societies)
Member of ACM
Member of IACR
Technical Committee Member of IEEE CASCOM
Engineer of the Year Award
IEEE Philadelphia Section, 2024
Art Ryan Award
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, 2023
Tenure Track Faculty Career Development Award
College of Engineering, Villanova University, 2023
AFRL VFRP Award and Extension Award
AFRL, Rome, NY, 2022
Merrill Buckley Jr. Student Project Award
IEEE Philadelphia Section, 2022
Brian Anderson Memorial Award
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, 2022
Best Paper Award
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2019
IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor
2019
Instructor at Villanova University (*: developed by me)
a. ECE–1260 EGR Programming and Applications (designed brand-new slides)
b. ECE-2043/2045 Fundamental Computer Engineering - I Lab
c. ECE–2431 Embedded Systems – I Lab
d. ECE–3430 Embedded Systems – II* (undergraduate course)
e. ECE-3450 Digital Electronics
f. ECE-4470 Computer Networks
g. ECE–5170 Introduction to Post-Quantum Computing* (senior-elective)
e. ECE-8440 Hardware System Design & Modeling* (graduate course)
Instructor at Wright State University
a. EE-2000 Digital Design with HDL
b. EE-2010 Circuit Analysis I
c. EE-4800/6800 Algorithms to VLSI Architectures
d. EE-8000 VLSI Cryptographic Circuits
Teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
a. Introduction of Electrical Engineering: Circuits and Systems
b. Linear Circuits and System-II
c. Computer Organization
d. Introduction to Image Processing
Elizabeth Carter: Efficient polynomial multiplication hardware accelerators for lattice-based post-quantum cryptography
Pingxiuqi Chen: FPGA realization of low register systolic all one polynomial multipliers over GF(2m) and their applications in trinomial multipliers
Qiliang Shao: FPGA realization of low register systolic multipliers over GF(2m)
Shaik Nazeem Basha: Novel implementation of finite field multipliers over GF(2m) for emerging cryptographic applications
Spring 2024: Sam Coulon
Spring 2021: Elizabeth Carter (Undergraduate Senior, Topic: Hardware Implementation of Polynomial Multiplication for Ring-LWE based PQC)
Current Ph.D. students: Pengzhou He, Tianyou Bao, and Yazheng Tu
Current M.S. and B.S. students: Sam Coulon, Ben Mongirdas, and Victor Xu
High-school seniors: Antonio Fiorentino Wong and Christopher Lin
Alumni: Elizabeth Carter (M.S. Thesis)
2023 – 2024: Jorge Ramos Putz, Kennedy Cornish (still ongoing)
2022 – 2023: Sam Coulon, Duncun Smith, Sean Garner, and Robert Rotyliano (Art Ryan Award)
2021 – 2022: Benjamin J. Lucas, Ali Alwan, Marion Murzello, Andrew J. Schwartz, David Guevara (Brian Anderson
Memorial Award)
Jiafeng Xie, SIGDA Electronic Newsletter, “What is” Column, May 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.sigda.org/publications/newsletter/
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-II (2024 – )
IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems (2023 – )
IEEE Access (2017 – )
Microelectronics Journal (2016 – )
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-II (2020)
Microelectronics Competition Co-Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust
(HOST) (2022)
AV Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) (2023 - 2024)
National Science Foundation SaTC and SCC
Proceedings of the IEEE
IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics
IEEE Trans. Emerging Topics in Computing
IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers
IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs
IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems
IEEE Access
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
Microelectronics Journal
Microprocessors and Microsystems
Integration, the VLSI
IET Signal Processing
Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
IET Circuits, Devices & Systems
AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (2020 - 2024)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) (2018 - 2019, 2022 - 2023)
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) (2019 - 2021)
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) (2020)
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) (2020 - 2024)
Design Automation Conference (DAC) (2020 - 2022)
GLSVLSI (2021 - 2023)
The International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) (2021 - 2022)
International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES) (2023)
International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) (2021 - 2023)
Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security (2021)
IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) (2022)
IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP) (2022)
International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT) (2022 - 2023)
ARITH (2022 - 2024)
IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT) (2023)
IEEE International Conference on Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE) (2022 - 2024)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) (2018 - 2019)
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) (2020, 2022 - 2023)
Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security (2021)
Design Automation Conference (DAC) (2021)
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (2022 - 2023)
ARITH (2022)
IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT) (2022)
International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) (2022)
International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT) (2023)