Ben Chen

Ben Chen

I am currently an incoming PhD student at Microelectronics Thrust, HKUST(GZ), supervised by Prof. Yun Chen, starting from Fall 2026. At SecArch Lab, I work on computer architecture and its security.

Previously, I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), instructed by Prof. Fengwei Zhang.

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News

2026.08   I will join HKUST(GZ) as a PhD student. See you in Guangzhou!
2025.11   Paper DSAssassin is accepted in HPCA '26. See you in Sydney!
2025.03   Our CTF team won the first prize at 18th CISCN.
2025.02   My journey as research assistant intern at SecArch Lab starts.
2024.12   Our project about compiler in Rust was invited to give a talk.
2024.07   Our project about mitigation of GoFetch attack won the first prize at NUS SOC SWS.
2024.05   Our project about RISC-V CPU got full marks in final defense.

Research

I'm interested in hacking xPUs (GPU, NPU and DSAs) and heterogeneous system.

Microarchitectural attacks: How can microarchitecture compromise the system's security?
Efficient computer architecture: XPU microarchitecture optimization, virtualization and simulation.

Publications

DSASSASSIN: Cross-VM Side-Channel Attacks by Exploiting Intel Data Streaming Accelerator
Ben Chen, Kunlin Li, Shuwen Deng, Dongsheng Wang, Yun Chen*
To appear in HPCA '26 [paper] [code]

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