People - BEARHW (Building Efficient and Resilient Hardware) lab
Wenjie Xiong, Assistant Professor
The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Virginia Tech
wenjiex@vt.edu [PGP key]
Room 353, Durham Hall
I lead the BEARHW (Building Efficient and Resilient Hardware) lab at Virginia tech. We leverage hardware features to enhance the security of computer systems as well as identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities that are rooted in hardware design. We are passionated about leveraging hardware to build secure systems.
I am looking for motivated students (postdocs, PhDs, Masters, and undergraduates) to join my group! Email me at wenjiex@vt.edu
Ph.D. Students
Jack Chandler
(2023 Fall --)
Erfan Iravani Mohammadabadi
(2023 Fall --)
Eunseong Park
(2024 Fall --)
M.S. Students
- Srilalith Nampally
- Lalit Prasad Peri
- Arju Khatun
Undergraduate Students
- Soham Gandhi
Alums
Ph.D.
- Mohannad Ismail, Spring 2024, (First employment: NetApp)
- Co-advised with Prof. Changwoo Min
- Thesis: Practical Mitigations Against Memory Corruption and Transient Execution Attacks
M.S. with thesis
- Benjamin Akhtar, Summer 2024, "Practial Private Federated Learning", Machine Learning Research Engineer @ Threekit
- Purushothaman Palani, Spring 2024, "Characterizing Retention behavior of DDR4 SoDIMM", Design Verification Engineer @ Nvidia
- TingHung Chiu, Spring 2024, "Fault Injection Attack on RSA and CSIDH", teaching position in Taiwan
- Akhilesh Parag Marathe, Spring 2024, "Oblivious Ciphertext Side-Channel Protection using Scalable SGX", Software Engineer @ Viavi Solutions
- Vishnu Kumar Kalidasan, Spring 2024, "Dataset for Machine Learning Based Cache Timing Attacks and Mitigation", SWE CoreOS @ Apple
- Sruthi Ayaluru Venkata Krishnan, Spring 2024, "The application of DRAM PUF as a physical token", Senior embedded software engineer @ JLG industries
- Rutvik J Chavda, Spring 2023, “Side-channel attacks in RISC-V BOOM Frontend”, Embeded BSP Engineer @ eInfochips
Undergraduate Researcher
- Dustin Mazza, Fall 2024
Openings
Get involved! We are looking for postdocs, PhDs, Masters, and undergraduates to join us! Please email me.