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 (11 papers): HPCA (‘26, ‘24), USENIX Security (‘26, ‘25), ASPLOS (‘25), DAC (‘25 × 3, ‘24), CHES (‘25), DATE (‘25)

Publications at Journals (5 papers): TIFS (‘25), TCAD (‘25), TDSC (‘26, ‘25), The Computer Journal (‘24)

Publications Ranking Statistics: 13 CCF-A papers (6 first-author), 3 CCF-B papers

• _{[TDSC 2026] Hypnos: A Practical Power Side-Channel Attack via CPU Idle Time
  Yusi Feng, Xin Zhang, Zihui Guo, Ben Liu, Fei Wang, Ziyuan Zhu, Yinqian Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF-A, IF=7.5)}
  

• _{[SEC 2026] UncoreBleed: AEX-Free, High-Resolution, and Low-Noise Side-Channel Attacks on SGX Enclaved Execution
  Decheng Chen, Zhi Zhang, Zhenkai Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yansong Gao, Yi Zou
  USENIX Security (CCF-A / CORE-A*)}
  

• _{[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.