Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)

December 19-21, 2025
Nanjing, China

AsianHOST 2025 Program

Featured Speakers / Panelists

Professor Dan Meng
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Dan Meng
Vice Chairman of the China Cyberspace Security Association
Security-first Computation 		Professor Makoto Nagata
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Makoto Nagata
Kobe University
Side Channel Attacks Exploiting Electromagnetic
Coupling Over Silicon Chip Backside 		Professor Qiang Xu
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Qiang Xu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
From Silicon to Semantics:
Extending Hardware Trust to Probabilistic AI

December 19, 2025 (DAY 0) (All Time in China Standard Time)

  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
    Registration & Conference Materials Collection
    Place: Lobby of G.E. Summit Hotel Nanjing, 1F
  • 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    Industrial Forum
    Huawei, OSR, Zhixinwei
    Place: Longpan Hall, 5F
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    Symposium Reception
    Place: G.E.Ballroom Hall C, 5F

December 20, 2025 (DAY 1) (All Time in China Standard Time)

  • 8:30 AM - 17:00 PM
    Registration & Conference Materials Collection
    Place: Lobby of G.E. Summit Hotel Nanjing, 1F
    • 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
      Opening Remarks       Weiqiang Liu (NUAA)
      10 Year Annuversity Remarks Gang Qu (University of Maryland), Yier Jin (University of Science and Technology of China)
      Overview of submissions Yijun Cui (NUAA)
      Place: G.E.Ballroom Hall AB, 5F
    • 9:20 AM - 10:10 AM
      Keynote 1
      Session Chair: Weiqiang Liu
      Speaker: Dan Meng (China Cyberspace Security Association)
      Title: Security-first Computation
    • 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM           Group photo + BREAK
      Place: Foyer of G.E.Ballroom, 5F
    • 10:40 AM - 12:00 PM
      Regular Paper Session 1: Hardware-Based Attack Techniques
      Session Chair: You Wang (NUAA)
      • PPA: Novel Page Prefetcher-Based Side-Channel Attacks (Best paper candidate)
        Tengjiao Fu, Yu Jin, Dongsheng Wang, Shuwen Deng and Yun Chen- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
      • RejSCore: Rejection Sampling Core for Multivariate-based Public key Cryptography (Best paper candidate)
        Malik Imran, Safiullah Khan, Zain Ul Abideen, Ciara Rafferty, Ayesha Khalid, Muhammad Rashid and Maire O'Neill- Queen's University Belfast
      • BadHMP: Backdoor Attack Against Human Motion Prediction
        Chaohui Xu, Si Wang and Chip Hong Chang- Nanyang Technological University
      • Lock+Umonitor+Umwait: Exposing the Security Risk of Lock Instruction in Achieving the Transient Execution Attack without Timer
        Yuzhang Duan, Pengfei Qiu, Chunlu Wang, Yihao Deng, Zhihao Zhang, Dongsheng Wang, Jiaji He and Gang Qu - Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Distributed Computing and Service (BUPT), Ministry of Education
    • LUNCH BREAK
      Place: Summit Cafe, 5F
    • 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
      Keynote 2
      Session Chair: Gang Qu (University of Maryland)
      Speaker: Makoto Nagata (Kobe University)
      Title: Side Channel Attacks Exploiting Electromagnetic Coupling Over Silicon Chip Backside
    • 2:20 PM - 3:00 PM
      Demo of challenges (Cui Aijiao, Hu Wei)
    • 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM           BREAK
    • 3:20 PM - 4:40 PM
      Regular Paper Session 2: AI Hardware Security
      Session Chair: Jiaji He (Tianjin University)
      • Privacy-Preserving CNN Inference on FPGA Framework with High Throughput (Best paper candidate)
        Qidong Chen, Yifan Yang, Wenpeng Zhao, Yijie Wang, Zhaojun Lu, Peng Xu and Jiliang Zhang - Huazhong University of Science and Technology
      • ARXPUF: A Modeling Attack Resilient Lightweight Strong PUF based on Add-Rotate-Xor (Best paper candidate)
        Zhenzhe Chen, Weirong Dong, Kunyang Liu and Takashi Sato - Kyoto University
      • Fixbench-RTL: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on RTL Debugging
        Shijie Li, Weimin Fu, Yifang Zhao, Xiaolong Guo and Yier Jin - University of Science and Technology of China
      • Rethinking LLM Safety on Edge Devices: Unearthing Hidden Vulnerabilities through Power Stress
        Weimin Fu, Zelin Lu, Gang Qu and Xiaolong Guo - Kansas State University
    • 4:40 PM - 6:00 PM
      Short Paper Session
      Session Chairs: He Li (Southeast University) and Peinan Li (Institute of Information Engineering)
      • Leveraging Large Language Models for Secure Hardware Verification and Analysis
        Yifang Zhao, Weimin Fu, Yi-Xiang Hu, Shijie Li, Xiaolong Guo and Yier Jin -University of Science and Technology of China
      • An Efficient Barrett Modular Multiplier Design for Zero-Knowledge Proof
        Jiahao Li, Qiang Liu, Ray C.C. Cheung and Zhaohui Guo -Tianjin University
      • Adversarially Evasive Hardware Trojans through Approximate Designs
        Marwa Dhiaf, Halima Bouzidi and Ihsen Alouani -Queen's University Belfast
      • A Quantitative Framework for Autocorrelation Analysis and Modeling Resistance Assessment of Physically Unclonable Functions
        Yuan Ma, Bi Wang, Chao Wang and Zhaohao Wang -Beihang University
      • SHAFI: Securing Hash-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography from Hardware Fault Injection Attacks
        Yanze Wu, Qian Wang and Md Tanvir Arafin -George Mason University
      • NNUF: Nearest Neighbor Union-Find Decoder for Quantum Error Correction
        Yuhang Gu and He Li -Southeast University
      • SACRED EYE: Secure Communication and Decentralized Monitoring for Swarm UAV Mission Completion
        Hugo Le Dirach and Amin Rezaei - University of Toulouse
      • Auto-profiling Attack on NTT Hardware Implementations
        Yiting Wang, Zelin Lu, Gang Qu and Md Tanvir Arafin -University of Maryland
    • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM           Gala Dinner
      Place: G.E.Ballroom Hall AB, 5F
      Session Chair: Weiqiang Liu and Gang Qu
      Invited Speaker: TBA
      Title: TBA
      Award ceremony for IC Security Challenge

    December 21, 2025 (DAY 2) (All Time in China Standard Time)

  • 8:30 AM - 15:00 PM
    Registration & Conference Materials Collection
    Place: Lobby of G.E. Summit Hotel Nanjing, 1F
    • 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
      Keynote 3
      Session Chair: Rui Hou (Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China)
      Speaker: Qiang Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong )
      Title: From Silicon to Semantics: Extending Hardware Trust to Probabilistic AI
    • 9:50 AM - 10:40 AM
      Panel
      Moderator: Tsung-Yi Ho
      Panelists: past AsianHOST Chairs
      Panel Title: Ten Years of AsianHOST: Shaping the Future of Hardware Security and Trust
    • 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM           BREAK
    • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Regular Paper Session 3: PUFs and Hardware Verification
      Session Chair: Yijun Cui (NUAA)
      • Modeling Fault Propagation for Model-Based Diagnosis as a MaxSAT Problem
        Huisi Zhou, Ning Kang and Wei Hu - Northwestern Polytechnical University
      • Evaluating Proposed Countermeasures for Power Analysis of Ring Oscillator PUFs
        James Moore, Jack Miskelly, Maire O'Neill and Chongyan Gu - Queen's University Belfast
      • A Portable and Hybrid Verification Framework Using C and UVM for Secure RISC-V SoCs
        Muhammad Yasir Farooq, Haroon Waris, Chenghua Wang, Muhammad Usman Akram, Jiatong Tian, Jiang Li and Weiqiang Liu - Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    • LUNCH BREAK
    • 1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
      Regular Paper Session 4: Cryptographic Hardware Acceleration
      Session Chair: Shuwen Deng (Tsinghua University)
      • A Unified Hardware Accelerator for Paillier and ElGamal with Masking and Improved Randomized Montgomery Ladder
        Jianfei Wang, Zichu Liu, Jia Hou, Yishuo Meng, Zhijie Lin, Maoquan Cai, Huansheng Shi and Chen Yang - Xi'an Jiaotong University
      • FPGA-Accelerated SPHINCS+: An Area-Optimized and High-Throughput Design
        Yanfeng Bai, Bei Wang, Jiansheng Chen, Chenghua Wang, Yijun Cui and Weiqiang Liu - Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
      • Split+Prune:Constructing Minimal Eviction Set under the LRU Replacement Policy
        Yi Han, Pengfei Qiu, Yihao Yang, Chunlu Wang, Dongsheng Wang and Gang Qu - Ministry of Education & Zhongguancun Laboratory
      • DASH-T: A Lightweight Countermeasure Based on Dynamic Address Shuffling and Temporal-hiding for Kyber's PWM
        Jiaji He, Yucheng Fu, Jindi Kong, Pengfei Qiu, Mao Ye and Yiqiang Zhao - Tianjin University
      • Flexible NTT Accelerator Design Framework for Scalable Lattice-Based Cryptosystems
        Yiqiang Zhao, Yanhui Song, Xintong Song, Qizhi Zhang, Yao Li and Jiaji He - Tianjin University
    • 3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
      PhD Forum Presentation
      Session Chair: Gu Chongyan (Queen's University) Bei Wang (NUAA)
    • 4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
      PhD Forum Poster with Snacks and Drink
      Place: Foyer of G.E.Ballroom, 5F
    • 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
      Closing Remarks with best PhD forum award
      Place: G.E.Ballroom Hall AB, 5F