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: ICSE 2026.
  • Program Committee: LAMPS 2025 (co-hosted with CCS 2025).
  • Program Committee: LMPL 2025 (co-hosted with ICFP/SPLASH 2025).
  • Program Committee: DeepTest 2025 (co-hosted with ICSE 2025).
  • Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 2025.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2025.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2025.
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee: USENIX Security 2023.
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee: OSDI and USENIX ATC 2022.
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee: ISSTA 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