Northeastern University

Research Group

I'm very proud of these talented students.

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

Portrait of Nuntipat Narkthong 

Nuntipat Narkthong (2023 –)
ME @ KMUTT
BE @ KMUTT

Portrait of Jiaxing He 

Jiaxing He (2024 –)
MS @ Tufts
BE @ GDUFS

Portrait of Xiaocheng Zou 

Xiaocheng Zou (2025 –)
MS @ NYU
BA @ Rutgers

Portrait of Tengkai Gong 

Tengkai Gong (2025 –)
MS @ UCSD
BS @ UESTC

MS Students

MS students are welcome to contact and join!

Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate students are welcome to contact and join!

Former Students

PhD Students

  • Dr. Yukui Luo (Spring 2019 – Summer 2023)
    Thesis: Securing FPGA as a Shared Cloud-Computing Resource: Threats and Mitigations
    Current Position: Assistant Professor @ Binghamton ECE
    Awards: Yale Cloud and FPGA Security Symposium Best Paper, 2022 · CSAW Embedded Security Challenge 3rd Place, 2020

  • Dr. Shijin Duan (Fall 2020 – Summer 2025)
    Thesis: Towards Practical and Ultra-Lightweight Binary Vector Symbolic Architecture Design and Its Real-World Applications
    Current Position: Staff Engineer @ 2012 Labs, Huawei
    Awards: ACM TODAES Rookie Author of the Year, 2022 · Yale Cloud and FPGA Security Symposium Best Paper, 2022 · CSAW Embedded Security Challenge 3rd Place, 2020

  • Dr. Tong Zhou (Fall 2021 – Summer 2026)
    Thesis: Secure and Responsible AI by Design: Defenses Across the Machine Learning Lifecycle
    Current Position: Software Engineer @ Microsoft
    Awards: ML and Systems Rising Star, 2026 · Northeastern Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 2026 · ICML Gold Reviewer, 2026 · NeurIPS Scholar Award, 2024 · ICCAD Best Paper Nomination, 2022

MS Students

  • Quanjiang Long (2023-2024, –> PhD student at Fordham University)

  • Shihan Zhao (2023 - 2024)

  • Ziyu Liu (2022-2024)

  • Mariano Marufo da Silva (2022, –> Digital Design Engineer at Eta Wireless)

  • Wenhao Wang (2019-2021)

  • Yuheng Zhang (2021)

  • Shijin Duan (2020, –> PhD student at Northeastern)

  • Mike Mishal (2018-2019, –> Microsoft Technical Trainer)

  • Francesca Pistilli (2018-2019, –> PhD Student at Politecnico di Torino)

  • Marco Montagna (2018-2019, –> CPU Engineer at Arm)

  • Giorgio Bonomo (2018-2019, –> PhD student at ETH Zurich)

Undergraduate Students

  • Poomrapee Moungnoi (2025-2026)

  • Augustine Nguyen (2022-2022)

  • Tsu Wei Sung (2022-2022)

  • Denny Tapia (2018-2019)

  • Jonathan Diaz (2018-2019)

  • Thor Hawist (2018-2019)

  • Zdravko Raseta (2018-2019)