Securing Miniaturized Ubiquitous Devices with Circuits Crossing Digital and Analog Domains

Security and privacy are critical challenges to ubiquitous electronics, such as loT and (body) sensor network. Securing these devices not only face new challenges at system and network levels due to drastically different applications, system constructions, and attack methods, but also face severe hardware-level constraints on computation resources, power consumption, and device cost. To solve these problems, new hardware security blocks are strongly demanded to provide a reliable, trustful, and energy-efficient foundation for building system security. In this talk, I will show our recent progress on novel hardware designs that cross the boundary between digital and analog electronics to provide fundamental security primitives and functions with ultra-low power and cost overhead. More specifically, experimentally validated mixed-signal security modules on true random number generators (TRNG) for key generation, physically unclonable functions (PUF) for chip fingerprinting and key storage, lightweight and reconfigurable cryptographic accelerators, and side-channel defenses will be highlighted in the talk.

Kaiyuan Yang

Assistant Professor, Rice University on October 2, 2020 at 10:00 AM in Zoom Webinar
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Kaiyuan Yang received his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ml, in 2017. His Ph.D. work was recognized with the 2016 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award.

He has been an Assistant Professor of ECE at Rice University, Houston, TX, since 2017. His research interests include digital and mixed-signal circuits for secure, intelligent and low-power microsystems, hardware security, and circuit system design with emerging devices. Dr. Yang received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), and the Best Student Paper Award finalist at the 2018 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuit Conference (CICC).

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