Awards and Recognitions

  • [2023] “Research Highlight” by ACM GetMobile magazine
  • [2022] IEEE HSTTC Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security (3 papers selected from hardware security papers in leading conferences/journals over the last 6 years, including top security, architecture, CAD, and hardware security venues.)
  • [2022] Best Paper Award at ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) (1 of 56 accepted papers, 317 submissions)
  • [2022] Best Student Paper Award Finalist at 2022 Symposium on Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC)
  • [2022] Dr. Yang received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
  • [2022] Zhanghao Yu and Yan He won the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award
  • [2021] Best Paper Award at IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) (1 out of 89 accepted papers)
  • [2019] Best Student Paper Award Finalist at IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
  • [2017] “Research Highlight” by Communication of ACM (CACM) magazine (~20 outstanding research articles per year from the broad spectrum of computing conferences.)
  • [2016] Dr. Yang received IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award
  • [2016] Pwnie Most Innovative Research Award (hosted at Black Hat security conference) Finalist
  • [2016] Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) (1 out of 55 accepted papers, 411 submissions)
  • [2016] ISSCC 2016 research highlight for the paper on error detection and correction processor
  • [2015] Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
  • [2015] ISSCC 2015 research highlight for the paper on highly stable strong physically unclonable function
  • [2014] ISSCC 2014 research highlight for the paper on fully synthesizable true random number generator