He received his Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interest lies in system security in general. His current research focus is side-channel attacks and defenses. In the past years, he has investigated several topics under this research theme, and published multiple research papers in top security conferences such as IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Usenix Security. His research has been supported by NSF. He held three U.S. patents that were derived from his previous research. In the recent years, he has served on the technical program committees of multiple security conferences, including IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Usenix Security, and NDSS.