I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Advanced Software Technologies (AST) lab at ETH Zurich, mentored by Prof. Zhendong Su. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Shuai Wang. Prior to that, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University in 2020.

E-mail: yuanyuan.yuan@inf.ethz.ch

Education & Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher. AST lab, ETH Zurich. Oct. 2024 - present.

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. HKUST. Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2024.
    🎓 Thesis: Side Channel Analysis for AI Infrastructures
    🏆 Best PhD Dissertation Award 2024 (one awardee per year), CSE, HKUST

  • Visiting Researcher. AST lab, ETH Zurich. Sep. 2022 - Sep. 2023.

  • B.S. in Computer Science. Fudan University. Sep. 2016 - July 2020.

Selected Publications (full list)

$^\dagger$ indicates corresponding authors, i.e., first-author publications of students I mentored.

Awards

  • 🏆 Distinguished Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025.

  • 🏆 Best PhD Dissertation Award (one awardee per year), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, 2024.

Academic Services

  • Program Committee:
    USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2026
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2026
    International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2026

  • Reviewer:
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2025
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2025
    Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), 2025

  • Artifact Evaluation Committee:
    USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2023
    International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2022
    USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2022
    USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2022

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant: Automated Software Testing. ETH Zurich, Spring 2025.
  • Teaching Assistant: Research Topics in Software Engineering. ETH Zurich, Spring 2025.
  • Teaching Assistant: Compiler Design. ETH Zurich, Fall 2024.
  • Guest Lecturer: Automated Software Testing. ETH Zurich, Spring 2023.
  • Teaching Assistant: COMP3632: Principles of Cybersecurity. HKUST, Fall 2021.
  • Teaching Assistant: COMP3632: Principles of Cybersecurity. HKUST, Spring 2021.
  • Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Computer System. Fudan University, Fall 2018.

Last updated: 22 May 2025