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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, Aug. 2024 - Present
• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 2022 - Aug. 2024 (transfer to Berkeley)
• B.E. in Automation, Zhejiang University, Sep. 2018 - June 2022

Publications

GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers

Boru Chen, Yingchen Wang, Pradyumna Shome, Christopher W. Fletcher, David Kohlbrenner, Riccardo Paccagnella, Daniel Genkin
USENIX Security Pwnie Award -- Best Cryptographic Attack

Controlled Preemption: Amplifying Side-Channel Attacks from Userspace

Yongye Zhu, Boru Chen, Zirui Neil Zhao, Christopher W. Fletcher
ASPLOS

Peek-a-Walk: Leaking Secrets via Page Walk Side Channels

Alan Wang, Boru Chen, Yingchen Wang, Christopher W. Fletcher, Daniel Genkin, David Kohlbrenner, Riccardo Paccagnella
IEEE S&P (Oakland)

µSTT: Microarchitecture Design for Speculative Taint Tracking

Boru Chen, Rutvik Choudhary, Kaustubh Khulbe, Archie Lee, Adam Morrison, Christopher W. Fletcher
ICCD

RTeAAL Sim: Using Tensor Algebra to Represent and Accelerate RTL Simulation

Yan Zhu, Boru Chen, Christopher W. Fletcher, Nandeeka Nayak
ASPLOS

Talks

GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers

March 26, 2024

Talk at Real World Crypto 2024, Toronto, Canada

GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers

August 14, 2024

Talk at USENIX Security 2024, Philadelphia, PA, US

GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers

August 18, 2024

Talk at WAC7 (Crypto 2024), Santa Barbara, CA, US

Teaching

Honors and Awards

• Xiaomi Scholarship, Xiaomi, Nov. 2021
• Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship, Dec. 2020
• Zhejiang University Scholarship – Second Prize, ZJU, Nov. 2020
• Zhejiang University Scholarship – Third Prize, ZJU, Nov. 2019