Scholar
Ruiyi Zhang
Google Scholar ID: jqaD56sAAAAJ
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Citations & Impact
Citations
252
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
11
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: 'FARFETCH'D: A Side-Channel Analysis Framework for Privacy Applications on Confidential Virtual Machines' (NDSS 2026), 'Automatic Discovery of User-exploitable Architectural Security Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source RISC-V CPUs' (ACM CCS 2025), 'Taming the Linux Memory Allocator for Rapid Prototyping' (DIMVA 2025), 'ShadowLoad: Injecting State into Hardware Prefetchers' (ASPLOS 2025), 'CacheWarp: Software-based Fault Injection using Selective State Reset' (USENIX Security 2024), '(M)WAIT for It: Bridging the Gap between Microarchitectural and Architectural Side Channels' (USENIX Security 2023), 'A Security RISC: Microarchitectural Attacks on Hardware RISC-V CPUs' (S&P 2023), 'Indirect Meltdown: Building Novel Side-Channel Attacks from Transient Execution Attacks' (ESORICS 2023), 'Reviving Meltdown 3a' (ESORICS 2023), 'EOSAFE: Security Analysis of EOSIO Smart Contracts' (USENIX Security 2021). Awards: 'CacheWarp: Software-based Fault Injection using Selective State Reset' won the Best Hardware and Physics Paper in Cybersecurity Award 2025.
Research Experience
- Fall 2024: Research Intern at Google, continuing to explore side-channel attacks targeting confidential virtual machines; July 2018 - February 2021: Security Researcher at PeckShield, under the supervision of Dr. Lei Wu and Yuan-Tsung Lo.
Education
- 2022-Present: PhD Student, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; 2021: PhD Preparatory Phase, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; 2015: BSc in Software Engineering (Cybersecurity), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, UESTC.
Background
- Research Interests: CPU security, software-induced architectural attacks, side channels, and the security of Trusted Execution Environments. Background: PhD student at RootSec lab, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, advised by Dr. Michael Schwarz.
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: Can distinguish between Cola Zero, Coca Cola, and Diet Coke with just one sip.
