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ECCV’26 Capacity Overflow: A Blind Spot for Backdoor Attacks in Vision MoE
ECCV’26 The Map Is Not the Territory: Embedding-Coverage Blacklists for Safe Diffusion Steering
FCCM’26 VSALUT: A Lightweight Low-Dimensional VSA Classifier for Efficient Inference on FPGA
TMLR’26 Defending Against Image Attribution Forgery Through Content-Dependent Cryptographic Watermarks
HOST’26 PermuteV: A Performant Side-channel-Resistant RISC-V Core Securing Edge AI Inference
RAID’25 Microarchitectural Defense Strategy against Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks in Microprocessors
ICML’25 Taming Diffusion for Dataset Distillation with High Representativeness
DAC’25 Holistic Design towards Resource-Stringent Binary Vector Symbolic Architecture
DAC’25 Towards Training Robustness Against Dynamic Errors in Quantum Machine Learning
NDSS’25 Probe-Me-Not: Protecting Pre-trained Encoders from Malicious Probing
NeurIPS’24 GraphCroc: Cross-Correlation Autoencoder for Graph Structural Reconstruction
NeurIPS’24 Bileve: Securing Text Provenance in Large Language Models Against Spoofing with Bi-level Signature
ICCAD’24 AdaPI: Facilitating DNN Model Adaptivity for Efficient Private Inference in Edge Computing
ICLR’24 ArchLock: Locking DNN Transferability at the Architecture Level with a Zero-Cost Binary Predictor
ASPLOS’24 An Ultra-Lightweight Vector Symbolic Architecture-based Classifier Library for Tiny Microcontrollers
NeurIPS’23 Structural Linearized Graph Convolutional Network for Homomorphically Encrypted Inference
MICRO’23 AQ2PNN: Two-party Privacy-Preserving Deep Neural Network Inference with Adaptive Quantization
ICCV’23 VertexSerum: Poisoning Graph Neural Networks for Link Inference
ICCV’23 AutoReP: Automatic ReLU Replacement for Fast Private Network Inference
ICCAD’23 MirrorNet: A TEE-Friendly Framework for Secure On-device DNN Inference
ICML’23 NNSplitter: An Active Defense Solution to DNN Model via Automated Weight Obfuscation
ICML’23 Orchestrating Encoding and Sparsity for Fast Homomorphically Encrypted NN Inference
DAC’23 A Lightweight Defense Framework against RowHammer Attack on Deep Neural Networks
DAC’23 Polynomial Arch. Search Framework for Two-party Computation-based Secure NN Deployment
tinyML’23 MetaLDC: Meta Learning of Low-Dimensional Computing Classifiers for Fast On-Device Adaption
ICCAD’22 ObfuNAS: A Neural Architecture Search-based DNN Obfuscation Approach [IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Nomination]
DAC’22 LeHDC: Learning-Based Hyperdimensional Computing Classifier
DAC’22 Exploiting Privileged Encoding to Protect Hyperdimensional Computing Models against IP Stealing
ESWEEK’22 FLAM-PUF: A Response Feedback-based Lightweight Anti-Machine Learning-Attack PUF [Best Paper Nomination]
tinyML’22 A Brain-Inspired Low-Dimensional Computing Classifier for Inference on Tiny Devices [Video]
FCCM’22 A Tensor Program Scheduling Framework Against Neural Network Architecture Reverse Engineering
Security’21 An Adversarial Weight Duplication Attack Framework to Crush DNN in Multi-Tenant FPGA
TODAES’21 FPGAPRO: A Defense Framework Against Crosstalk-Induced Secret Leakage in FPGA [TODAES Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) Award]
DAC’21 DeepStrike: Remotely-Guided Fault Injection Attacks on DNN Accelerator in Cloud-FPGA
DAC’21 SGX-FPGA: Trusted Execution Environment for CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Architecture
CHES’20 CAS-Lock: A Security-Corruptibility Trade-off Resilient Logic Locking Scheme [Video]
Publications by Year
2026
Capacity Overflow: A Blind Spot for Backdoor Attacks in Vision MoE
Xiaocheng Zou, Tiancheng Zheng, Xiaolin Xu, Ruyi Ding
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026The Map Is Not the Territory: Embedding-Coverage Blacklists for Safe Diffusion Steering
Juyang Bai, Tong Zhou, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026VSALUT: A Lightweight Low-Dimensional VSA Classifier for Efficient Inference on FPGA
Nuntipat Narkthong, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2026MetaSeal: Defending Against Image Attribution Forgery Through Content-Dependent Cryptographic Watermarks
Tong Zhou, Ruyi Ding, Gaowen Liu, Charles Fleming, Ramana Rao Kompella, Yunsi Fei, Xiaolin Xu, Shaolei Ren
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026
PermuteV: A Performant Side-channel-Resistant RISC-V Core Securing Edge AI Inference
Nuntipat Narkthong, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2026Privacy-Preserving Constrained Evaluation of LLM-Generated HLS C/C++
Nuo Xu, Jinwei Tang, Zihang Chen, Xiaolin Xu, Wujie Wen, Zhenman Fang, Caiwen Ding
Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2026
2025
ShuffleV: A Microarchitectural Defense Strategy against Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks in Microprocessors
Nuntipat Narkthong, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 25%)Graph Generative Pre-trained Transformer
Xiaohui Chen, Yinkai Wang, Jiaxing He, Yuanqi Du, Soha Hassoun, Xiaolin Xu, Liping Liu
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025Taming Diffusion for Dataset Distillation with High Representativeness
Lin Zhao, Yushu Wu, Xinru Jiang, Jianyang Gu, Yanzhi Wang, Xiaolin Xu, Pu Zhao, Xue Lin
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025Holistic Design towards Resource-Stringent Binary Vector Symbolic Architecture
Shijin Duan, Nuntipat Narkthong, Yukui Luo, Shaolei Ren and Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)Towards Training Robustness Against Dynamic Errors in Quantum Machine Learning
Shijin Duan, Gaowen Liu, Charles Fleming, Ramana Rao Kompella, Xiaolin Xu and Shaolei Ren
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)Graph Generative Pre-trained Transformer
Xiaohui Chen, Yinkai Wang, Jiaxing He, Yuanqi Du, Soha Hassoun, Xiaolin Xu, Liping Liu
ICLR Workshop on Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle and Efficacy (DeLTa), 2025.Large Language Model is Secretly a Protein Sequence Optimizer
Yinkai Wang, Jiaxing He, Yuanqi Du, Xiaohui Chen, Jianan Canal Li, Li-Ping Liu, Xiaolin Xu, Soha Hassoun
ICLR Workshop on Learning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL), 2025.ProDiF: Protecting Domain-Invariant Features to Secure Pre-Trained Models Against Extraction
Tong Zhou, Shijin Duan, Gaowen Liu, Charles Fleming, Ramana Rao Kompella, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
ICLR Workshop on Weight Space Learning, 2025Towards Vector Optimization on Low-Dimensional Vector Symbolic Architecture
Shijin Duan, Yejia Liu, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL), 2025Probe-Me-Not: Protecting Pre-trained Encoders from Malicious Probing
Ruyi Ding, Tong Zhou, Lili Su, Adam Ding, Xiaolin Xu, Yunsi Fei
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 16.1%)
2024
Bileve: Securing Text Provenance in Large Language Models Against Spoofing with Bi-level Signature
Tong Zhou, Xuandong Zhao, Xiaolin Xu, Shaolei Ren
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 25.8%)GraphCroc: Cross-Correlation Autoencoder for Graph Structural Reconstruction
Shijin Duan, Ruyi Ding, Jiaxing He, Aidong Adam Ding, Yunsi Fei, Xiaolin Xu
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 25.8%)AdaPI: Facilitating DNN Model Adaptivity for Efficient Private Inference in Edge Computing
Tong Zhou, Jiahui Zhao, Yukui Luo, Xi Xie, Wujie Wen, Caiwen Ding, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 24%)Watch Out for the Inherent Vulnerabilities in Developing Multi-tenant Cloud-FPGA: Communication Protocols
Ziyu Liu, Yukui Luo, Yuheng Zhang, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2024ALLI/O: An Action-based Visual Programming Language for Embedded System Programming
Nuntipat Narkthong, Chattriya Jariyavajee, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2024MicroVSA: An Ultra-Lightweight Vector Symbolic Architecture-based Classifier Library for Tiny Microcontrollers
Nuntipat Narkthong, Shijin Duan, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, (ASPLOS) 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 18.4%)
Three artifact badges (available, functional, reproduced) receivedDeepShuffle: A Lightweight Defense Framework against Adversarial Fault Injection Attacks on Deep Neural Networks in Multi-Tenant Cloud-FPGA
Yukui Luo, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Deliang Fan, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Oakland 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 17.8%)Side-Channel-Assisted Reverse-Engineering of Encrypted DNN Hardware Accelerator IP and Attack Surface Exploration
Gongye Cheng, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu, Yunsi Fei
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Oakland 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 17.8%)TBNet: A Neural Architectural Defense Framework Facilitating DNN Model Protection in Trusted Execution Environments
Ziyu Liu, Tong Zhou, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)ArchLock: Locking DNN Transferability at the Architecture Level with a Zero-Cost Binary Predictor
Tong Zhou, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 30.9%)Scheduled Knowledge Acquisition on Lightweight Vector Symbolic Architectures for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Yejia Liu, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu, Shaolei Ren
tinyML Research Symposium (tinyML) 2024.Neural Architecture Search for Adversarial Robustness via Learnable Pruning
Yize Li, Pu Zhao, Ruyi Ding, Tong Zhou, Yunsi Fei, Xiaolin Xu, Xue Lin
Frontiers in High Performance Computing, 2024.
2023
LinGCN: Structural Linearized Graph Convolutional Network for Homomorphically Encrypted Inference
Hongwu Peng, Ran Ran, Yukui Luo, Jiahui Zhao, Shaoyi Huang, Kiran Thorat, Tong Geng, Chenghong Wang, Xiaolin Xu, Wujie Wen, Caiwen Ding
Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 26.1%)AQ2PNN: Enabling Two-party Privacy-Preserving Deep Neural Network Inference with Adaptive Quantization
Yukui Luo, Nuo Xu, Hongwu Peng, Chenghong Wang, Shijin Duan, Kaleel Mahmood, Wujie Wen, Caiwen Ding, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 23.8%)VertexSerum: Poisoning Graph Neural Networks for Link Inference
Ruyi Ding*, Shijin Duan*, Xiaolin Xu, Yunsi Fei
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 26.15%)AutoReP: Automatic ReLU Replacement for Fast Private Network Inference
Hongwu Peng*, Shaoyi Huang*, Tong Zhou*, Yukui Luo, Chenghong Wang, Zigeng Wang, Jiahui Zhao, Xi Xie, Ang Li, Tony Geng, Kaleel Mahmood, Wujie Wen, Xiaolin Xu, Caiwen Ding
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 26.15%)MirrorNet: A TEE-Friendly Framework for Secure On-device DNN Inference
Ziyu Liu, Yukui Luo, Shijin Duan, Tong Zhou and Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 22.9%)NNSplitter: An Active Defense Solution to DNN Model via Automated Weight Obfuscation
Tong Zhou, Yukui Luo, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 27.9%)MetaLDC: Meta Learning of Low-Dimensional Computing Classifiers for Fast On-Device Adaption
Yejia Liu, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu, Shaolei Ren
tinyML Research Symposium 2023SpENCNN: Orchestrating Encoding and Sparsity for Fast Homomorphically Encrypted Neural Network Inference
Ran Ran, Xinwei Luo, Wei Wang, Tao Liu, Gang Quan, Xiaolin Xu, Caiwen Ding, Wujie Wen
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 27.9%)Achieving Certified Robustness for Brain-Inspired Low-Dimensional Computing Classifiers
Fangfang Yang, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu, and Shaolei Ren
International Workshop on AI-Driven Trustworthy, Secure, and Privacy-Preserving Computing (AidTSP) 2023.HammerDodger: A Lightweight Defense Framework against RowHammer Attack on Deep Neural Networks
Cheng Gongye, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu, and Yunsi Fei
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)PASNet: Polynomial Architecture Search Framework for Two-party Computation-based Secure Neural Network Deployment
Hongwu Peng, Shanglin Zhou, Yukui Luo, Nuo Xu, Shijin Duan, Ran Ran, Jiahui Zhao, Chenghong Wang, Tong Geng, Wujie Wen, Xiaolin Xu, and Caiwen Ding
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)
2022
A Cautionary Note on Building Multi-tenant Cloud-FPGA as a Secure Infrastructure
Yukui Luo, Yuheng Zhang, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu
International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), 2022.ObfuNAS: A Neural Architecture Search-based DNN Obfuscation Approach
Tong Zhou, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 22%)
IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper NominationFLAM-PUF: A Response Feedback-based Lightweight Anti-Machine Learning-Attack PUF
Linjun Wu, Yupeng Hu, Kehuan Zhang, Wenjia Li, Xiaolin Xu, Wanli Chang
International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), part of the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 22%)
Best Paper Award NominationNNReArch: A Tensor Program Scheduling Framework Against Neural Network Architecture Reverse Engineering
Yukui Luo, Shijin Duan, Cheng Gongye, Yunsi Fei, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 20%)LeHDC: Learning-Based Hyperdimensional Computing Classifier [Code]
Shijin Duan, Yejia Liu, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)HDLock: Exploiting Privileged Encoding to Protect Hyperdimensional Computing Models against IP Stealing
Shijin Duan, Shaolei Ren, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)A Brain-Inspired Low-Dimensional Computing Classifier for Inference on Tiny Devices
Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu, Shaolei Ren
tinyML Research Symposium 2022
An Integrity Checking Framework for AXI Protocol in Multi-tenant FPGA
Yukui Luo, Yuheng Zhang, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu
ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2022, (poster)
2021
Deep Neural Network Security from A Hardware Perspective
Tong Zhou, Yuheng Zhang, Shijin Duan, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu,
IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2021HDCOG: A Lightweight Hyperdimensional Computing Framework with Feature Extraction
Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2021Deep-Dup: An Adversarial Weight Duplication Attack Framework to Crush Deep Neural Network in Multi-Tenant FPGA
Adnan Siraj Rakin*, Yukui Luo*, Xiaolin Xu, Deliang Fan
USENIX Security Symposium, 2021. (Acceptance rate 18.8%=248/1319)A Survey of Recent Attacks and Mitigation on FPGA Systems
Shijin Duan, Wenhao Wang, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2021 (Invited paper)DeepStrike: Remotely-Guided Fault Injection Attacks on DNN Accelerator in Cloud-FPGA
Yukui Luo*, Cheng Gongye*, Yunsi Fei, and Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)
SGX-FPGA: Trusted Execution Environment for CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Architecture (code)
Ke Xia, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu, and Sheng Wei
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 23%)
CRAlert: Hardware-assisted Instruction-level Code Reuse Attack Detection
Wenhao Wang, Xiaolin Xu, Jiliang Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, (TCAS-II) 2021FPGAPRO: A Defense Framework Against Crosstalk-Induced Secret Leakage in FPGA
Yukui Luo, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2021.
TODAES Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) AwardGenerating Random Keys for Cyber Physical System from Asynchronous Chaotic Topology
Yukui Luo, Shijin Duan, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems Newsletter, 2021STT-MRAM-based Reliable Weak PUF
Yupeng Hu, Linjun Wu, Zhuojun Chen, Yun Huang, Keqin Li, Xiaolin Xu, Jiliang Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2021A Defense Framework Against Long-Wire-Based Secret Leakage in Cloud-FPGA
Shijin Duan, Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems Newsletter, 2021Constructive Use of Process Variations: Reconfigurable and High-Resolution Delay-Line
Wenhao Wang, Yukui Luo, and Xiaolin Xu
IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), 2021.
2020
Stealthy-Shutdown: Practical Remote Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant FPGAs
Yukui Luo, Cheng Gongye, Shaolei Ren, Yunsi Fei, and Xiaolin Xu
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, (ICCD) 2020 (Acceptance Rate of full paper: 28%).A Quantitative Defense Framework against Power Attacks on Multi-tenant FPGA
Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2020 (Acceptance Rate: 24%).A Privacy-Preserving-Oriented DNN Pruning and Mobile Acceleration Framework
Yifan Gong, Zheng Zhan, Zhengang Li, Wei Niu, Xiaolong Ma, Wenhao Wang, Bin Ren, Caiwen Ding, Xue Lin, Xiaolin Xu, and Yanzhi Wang
IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI), 2020A Dynamic Frequency Scaling Framework AgainstReliability and Security Issues in Multi-tenant FPGA
Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu
International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2020 (poster presentation)Rethinking FPGA Security in the New Era of Artificial Intelligence
Xiaolin Xu, Jiliang Zhang
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2020 (Invited paper)CAS-Lock: A Security-Corruptibility Trade-off Resilient Logic Locking Scheme (video)
Bicky Shakya*, Xiaolin Xu*, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
International Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2020 (Acceptance Rate: 26.8%)A High-Performance and Secure TRNG Based on Chaotic Cellular Automata Topology
Yukui Luo*, Wenhao Wang*, Scott Best, Yanzhi Wang, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, (TCAS-I) 2020.
2019
HILL: A Hardware Isolation Framework against Information Leakage on Multi-Tenant FPGA Long-Wires
Yukui Luo, Xiaolin Xu
International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2019An All-Digital True Random Number Generator Based on Chaotic Cellular Automata Topology
Scott Best, Xiaolin Xu
IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2019 (Acceptance Rate: 23.9%).PVTMC: An All-Digital Sub-Picosecond Timing Measurement Circuit based on Process Variations
Shuo Li, Xiaolin Xu, Wayne Burleson
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2019Chaos in a Ring Circuit
Etienne Farcot, Scott Best, Roderick Edwards, Ismail Belgacem, Xiaolin Xu, Patrick Gill
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2019.Electronics Supply Chain Integrity Enabled by Blockchain
Xiaolin Xu, Fahim Rahman, Bicky Shakya, Apostol Vassilev, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2019.
2018 and earlier
Power-based Side-Channel Instruction-level Disassembler
Jungmin Park, Xiaolin Xu, Yier Jin, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018 (Acceptance Rate: 24.3%)Bimodal Oscillation as a Mechanism for Autonomous Majority Voting in PUFs
Xiaolin Xu, Shahrzad Keshavarz, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor, Daniel Holcomb
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI) 2018Survey on Applications of Formal Methods in Reverse Engineering and Intellectual Property Protection
Shahrzad Keshavarz, Cunxi Yu, Samaneh Ghandali, Xiaolin Xu, Daniel Holcomb
Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HaSS), 2018Development and Evaluation of Hardware Obfuscation Benchmarks
Sarah Amir, Bicky Shakya, Xiaolin Xu, Yier Jin, Swarup Bhunia, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HaSS), 2018SCARe: An SRAM-based Countermeasure Against IC Recycling Framework
Zimu Guo, Xiaolin Xu, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2018Aging Resistant RO PUF with Increased Reliability in FPGA
Sreeja Chowdhury, Xiaolin Xu, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2017MPA: Model-assisted PCB Attestation via Board-level RO and Temperature Compensation
Zimu Guo, Xiaolin Xu, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
IEEE Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST), 2017Novel Bypass Attack and BDD- based Tradeoff Analysis Against all Known Logic Locking Attacks
Xiaolin Xu*, Bicky Shakya*, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
International Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2017 (Acceptance Rate: 25.3%).CCATDC: A Configurable Compact Algorithmic Time-to-Digital Converter
Shuo Li, Xiaolin Xu, Wayne Burleson
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2017FFD: A Framework for Fake Flash Detection
Zimu Guo, Xiaolin Xu, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2017 (Acceptance Rate: 22%)Security Beyond CMOS: Fundamentals, Applications, and Roadmap
Fahim Rahman, Bicky Shakya, Xiaolin Xu, Domenic Forte, Mark Tehranipoor
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2017Poly-Si Based Physical Unclonable Functions
Haoting Shen, Fahim Rahman, Bicky Shakya, Xiaolin Xu, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2017
Reliable PUF Design Using Failure Patterns from Time-Controlled Power Gating
Xiaolin Xu, and Daniel Holcomb
IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT), 2016Using Statistical Models to Improve the Reliability of Delay-Based PUFs
Xiaolin Xu, Wayne Burleson, and Daniel E. Holcomb
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2016A Clockless Sequential PUF with Autonomous Majority Voting
Xiaolin Xu, and Daniel Holcomb
IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI), 2016Reliable Physical Unclonable Functions using Data Retention Voltage of SRAM Cells
Xiaolin Xu, Amir Rahmati, Daniel Holcomb, Kevin Fu and Wayne Burleson
Special section on hardware security and trust, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2015Security Evaluation and Enhancement of Bistable Ring PUFs
Xiaolin Xu, Ulrich Rührmair, Daniel Holcomb, Wayne Burleson
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Radio Frequency Identification: Security and Privacy issues (RFIDSec), 2015Virtual Proofs of Reality and their Physical Implementation
Ulrich Ruhrmair, J L Martinez Hurtado, Xiaolin Xu, Christian Kraeh, Christian Hilgers, Dima Kononchuk, Jonathan J. Finley and Wayne Burleson
IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2015 (Acceptance Rate: 13.5%)Efficient Power and Timing Side Channels for Physical Unclonable Functions
Ulrich Ruhrmair*, Xiaolin Xu*, Jan Solter, Ahmed Mahmoud, Mehrdad Majzoobi, Farinaz Koushanfar and Wayne Burleson
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2014 (Acceptance Rate: 26%).Post-SiliconValidationand Calibration of Hardware Security Primitives
XiaolinXu, Vikram Suresh, Raghavan Kumar, and Wayne Burleson
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2014Hybrid Side-channel/machine-learning Attacks on PUFs: A new threat?
Xiaolin Xu and Wayne Burleson
Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), 2014.PUF Modeling Attacks on Simulated and Silicon Data
Ulrich Ruhrmair, Jan Solter, Frank Sehnke, Xiaolin Xu, Ahmed Mahmoud, Vera Stoyanova, Gideon Dror, Jurgen Schmidhuber, Wayne Burleson, Srinivas Devadas
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2013Robust and Low-Power Delay-Based Physical Unclonable Function Design
Xiaolin Xu, Raghavan Kumar and Wayne Burleson
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) TECHCON Conference, 2012
Other Scholarly Works
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Book Chapters
When the Physical Disorder of CMOS Meets Machine Learning
Xiaolin Xu, Shuo Li, Raghaven Kumar, Wayne Burleson
In book “High-Speed and Low Power Technologies: Electronics & Photonics”.Leveraging Circuit Edit for Low Volume Trusted Fabrication
Bicky Shakya, Xiaolin Xu, Navid Asadizanjani, Mark Tehranipoor, Domenic Forte
In book “Security Opportunities by Nano Devices and Emerging Technologies”.Physically unclonable functions: A Window into CMOS Process Variations
Raghavan Kumar, Xiaolin Xu, Wayne Burleson
In book “Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy”.
Thesis