Students

Students I am currently working with

Jianzhang Du (Ph.D., Fall 2024-)
Yitong Guo (Ph.D., Fall 2024-)
Haobin Chen (Ph.D., with XiaoFeng Wang)
Hongbo Chen (Ph.D., with XiaoFeng Wang)



Prospective students

We are actively seeking self-motivated students to join our team starting in Fall 2025. Currently, we have two fully funded Ph.D. RA positions available: one focused on system research and the other on hardware architecture.

Key qualities I expect my prospective students:

  1. Strong self-motivation, responsible, and reliable (most important).
  2. Enthusiasm for building secure, reliable systems and hardware.
  3. Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures and computer systems (or architecture).
  4. Proficiency in system or lower-level (verilog, HLS, etc.) programming.

Desirable, but not essential:

  1. Backgrounds in crypto, differential privacy, MPC, or trusted hardware.
  2. System: Experience in real system design and implementation (especially OS, distributed systems and databases).
  3. Architecture: Experience in FPGA prototype implementation.
  4. Industry experience is highly valued.

Prospective students are encouraged to send their CVs, along with a short self-introduction and any pertinent materials, to Chenghong at cw166 @ iu.edu Please include [Prospective Ph.D. Student] in the tile of your email.

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