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 (14 papers): HPCA (‘26, ‘24), USENIX Security (‘26, ‘25), ASPLOS (‘25), DAC (‘26 x 2, ‘25 × 3, ‘24), EuroSys (‘26), CHES (‘25), DATE (‘25)

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

Publications Ranking Statistics: 16 CCF-A papers (6 first-author), 3 CCF-B papers

• _{[DAC 2026] Shooting Falcon with One Fault: A Practical Rowhammer-based Fault Attack against Falcon
  Zihao Xin, Xin Zhang, Zhe Liu, Qianmei Wu, Qingni Shen, Ruyi Ding, Yixin Jiang, Wenqian Xu, Zhihong Liang, Lu Zhou and Fan Zhang
  Design Automation Conference (CCF-A / CORE-A)}
  

• _{[DAC 2026] PLONK-Hammer:Breaking Input Privacy of PLONK Proving Systems via Rowhammer
  Zhiwen Zhang, Junkai Liang, Xin Zhang, Qingni Shen, Cong Li and Yuejian Fang
  Design Automation Conference (CCF-A / CORE-A)}
  

• _{[EuroSys 2026] SwiftFL: Enabling Speculative Training for On-Device Federated Deep Learning
  Yuhui Zhang, Guang Yan, Xin Zhang, Zimu Guo, Lutan Zhao, Jiangfeng Cao, Dan Meng, Rui Hou
  European Conference on Computer Systems (CCF-A / CORE-A)}
  

• _{[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 [paper]
  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.