Yinqian Zhang
Scholar

Yinqian Zhang

Google Scholar ID: C7htwEIAAAAJ
Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
Computer Security
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
7,243
 
H-index
41
 
i10-index
83
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
18
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • ACM Distinguished Member (2024)
  • IEEE-CS Young Scientist Award, Chinese Computer Federation (2023)
  • Privacy-Preserving Computation Tech Innovator, MIT Technology Review China (2022)
  • Top 2% Scientists Worldwide, Stanford University (2022)
  • AMiner Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mentions (2018–2023)
  • Rising Star Award, Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (2019)
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (2019)
  • College of Engineering Lumley Research Award (2019)
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2018)
  • IEEE S&P Distinguished Paper Award (2025)
  • DAC Best Paper Award Nominee (2025)
  • Best Practical Paper in Cybersecurity Award (2025)
  • ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award (2024, 2023)
  • ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award (2022)
  • ACM CCS Best Paper Awards Honorable Mention (2022) and Runner-up (2021)
  • Top Picks in Computer Architecture Honorable Mentions (2019)
  • Best of CAL Paper (2019, 2022)
  • Top 10 Finalist, CSAW Best Applied Research Paper Award (2016, 2018, 2022)
  • CTO Office Challenge Award, EMC Innovation Conference (2011)
  • Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Security (2013)
Background
  • Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
  • Director of the Information Security Research Center at the Research Institute of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (RITAS), SUSTech
  • Director of TeeCert Labs at SUSTech
  • Research interests focus on computer systems security, particularly security and applications of confidential computing and trusted execution environments
  • Research areas include hardware vulnerabilities, microarchitectural side channels, operating systems and virtualization, program analysis, formal verification, cryptographic protocol design and analysis, blockchain and decentralized computing, machine learning, etc.