Selected Publications
In the past few years, I have been dedicating my efforts to publish papers on top-tier conferences in computer architecture (MICRO, ISCA, HPCA, and ASPLOS) and security (CCS, IEEE S&P, Usenix Security, and NDSS). I also contribute to other well-regarded conferences in hardware security (e.g., DAC, DATE, and CHES).
Publications at Conferences (10 papers): HPCA (‘26, ‘24), DAC (‘25 × 3, ‘24), USENIX Security (‘25), ASPLOS (‘25), CHES (‘25), DATE (‘25)
Publications at Journals (4 papers): TIFS (‘25), TCAD (‘25), TDSC (‘25), The Computer Journal (‘24)
Publications Ranking Statistics: 10 CCF-A papers (6 first-author), 3 CCF-B papers
[HPCA 2026] SSBleed: Non-speculative Side-channel Attacks via Speculative Store Bypass on Armv9 CPUs
Chang Liu, Hongpei Zheng, Xin Zhang, Dapeng Ju, Dongsheng Wang, Yinqian Zhang, Trevor E. Carlson
International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (CCF-A / CORE-A*)[TDSC 2025] Fish and Chips: On the Root Causes of Co-located Website-Fingerprinting Attack [paper]
Yusi Feng, Sioli O’Connel, Xin Zhang, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, Yinqian Zhang, Zhi Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF-A, IF=7.5)[TCAD 2025] MUXLeak: Exploiting Multiplexers as A Power Side Channel against Multi-tenant FPGAs [paper] [code]
Xin Zhang, Jiajun Zou, Zhi Zhang, Qingni Shen, Yansong Gao, Jinhua Cui, Yusi Feng, Zhonghai Wu, Derek Abbott
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (CCF-A, IF=2.9)[TIFS 2025] Fantastic Interrupts and Where to Find Them: Exploiting Non-movable Interrupts on x86 [paper]
Xin Zhang, Qingni Shen, Zhi Zhang, Yansong Gao, Jiajun Zou, Yi Yang, Zhonghai Wu
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (CCF-A, IF=8)[DAC 2025] LeakyDSP: Exploiting Digital Signal Processing Blocks to Sense Voltage Fluctuations in FPGAs [paper] [code]
Xin Zhang, Jiajun Zou, Yi Yang, Qingni Shen, Zhi Zhang, Yansong Gao, Zhonghai Wu, Trevor E. Carlson
Design Automation Conference (CCF-A / CORE-A)[DAC 2025] AmpereBleed: Exploiting On-chip Current Sensors for Circuit-Free Attacks on ARM-FPGA SoCs [paper] [code]
Xin Zhang, Yi Yang, Jiajun Zou, Qingni Shen, Zhi Zhang, Yansong Gao, Zhonghai Wu, Trevor E. Carlson
Design Automation Conference (CCF-A / CORE-A)[DAC 2025] ZK-Hammer: Leaking Secrets from Zero-Knowledge Proofs via Rowhammer [paper]
Junkai Liang, Xin Zhang, Daqi Hu, Qingni Shen, Yuejian Fang and Zhonghai Wu
Design Automation Conference (CCF-A / CORE-A)[CHES 2025] Practical Opcode-based Fault Attack on AES-NI [paper] [SAFE 2025 Best Paper Award]
Xue Gong, Xin Zhang, Qianmei Wu, Fan Zhang, Junge Xu, Qingni Shen, Zhi Zhang
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CCF-B / CORE-A)[ASPLOS 2025] HyperHammer: Breaking Free from KVM-Enforced Isolation [paper]
Wei Chen, Zhi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Qingni Shen, Yuval Yarom, Daniel Genkin, Chen Yan, Zhe Wang
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (CCF-A / CORE-A*)- [SEC 2025] Achilles: A Formal Framework of Leaking Secrets from Signature Schemes via Rowhammer [paper] [code] honorable mention
Junkai Liang, Zhi Zhang, Xin Zhang (co-first author), Qingni Shen, Yansong Gao, Xingliang Yuan, Haiyang Xue, Pengfei Wu, Zhonghai Wu
USENIX Security (CCF-A / CORE-A*)
Honorable Mention (Top 6% of the accepted papers) [DAC 2024] ThermalScope: A Practical Interrupt Side Channel Attack Based On Thermal Event Interrupts [paper] [code]
Xin Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Qingni Shen, Wenhao Wang, Yansong Gao, Zhuoxi Yang, Zhonghai Wu
Design Automation Conference (CCF-A / CORE-A)[HPCA 2024] SegScope: Probing Fine-grained Interrupts via Architectural Footprints [paper] [code] [slides] [poster]
Xin Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Qingni Shen, Wenhao Wang, Yansong Gao, Zhuoxi Yang, Jiliang Zhang
International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (CCF-A / CORE-A*)You can find the full publication list from my Google Scholar and the submission history from GitHub.