Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)

December 19-21, 2025
Nanjing, China

AsianHOST 2025 Program


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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
  • 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
    IC Security Challenge
    Place: Huju Hall, 5F
  • 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    Industrial Forum
    Chair: Yongpan Liu (Tsinghua University)
    Place: Longpan Hall, 5F
  • 2:00 PM - 2:05 PM
    Opening Remarks
    HOST: Yongpan Liu (Tsinghua University)
  • 2:05 PM - 3:35 PM
    Place: Longpan Hall, 5F
    • CPU Side-channel Vulnerabilities from an Industrial Perspective
      Wenjian He- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China
    • Research on Information Security Solutions Under New Electricity System
      Dejian Li- Beijing Smartchip Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., China
    • Chip Security, New Paradigm: Industry-wide Security Upgrade Driven by Evolving Automotive Standards
      Jiabao Wen- Open Security Research, Inc., China
  • 3:35 PM - 3:55 PM           Coffee Break
    Place: Foyer of G.E.Ballroom, 5F
  • 3:55 PM - 4:55 PM
    Place: Longpan Hall, 5F
    • Open-Source Chip Security: Building a Full-Stack Trusted Computing Ecosystem Based on Xiangshan
      Miaomiao Yuan- Open Chip Institute, China
    • FHE Acceleration by Bridging the Gap Between Cryptography and Computer Architecture
      Mingzhe Zhang- Ant Group, China
    • Chip Security, New Paradigm: Industry-wide Security Upgrade Driven by Evolving Automotive Standards
      Jiabao Wen- Open Security Research, Inc., China
  • 4:55 PM - 6:00 PM
    Joint Panel Discussion
    Moderator: Yongpan Liu (Tsinghua University)
    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
    Place: Lobby of G.E. Summit Hotel Nanjing, 1F
    • 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
      Opening Remarks:       Weiqiang Liu (NUAA)
      Welcome Address: Shilong Pan (NUAA)
      Overview of submissions: Yijun Cui (NUAA)
      10 Year Annuversity Remarks: Gang Qu (University of Maryland), Yier Jin (University of Science and Technology of China)
      Place: G.E.Ballroom Hall AB, 5F
    • 9:20 AM - 10:10 AM
      Keynote 1
      Session Chair: Weiqiang Liu (NUAA)
      Speaker: Dan Meng (China Cyberspace Security Association)
      Title: Security-first Computation
    • 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM           Group Photo + Coffee Break
      Place: Foyer of G.E.Ballroom, 5F
    • 10:40 AM - 12:00 PM
      Regular Paper Session 1: Hardware-Based Attack Techniques
      Session Chair: Yijun Cui (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
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM           LUNCH BREAK
      Place: Summit Cafe, 5F
    • 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
      Keynote 2
      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
    • 2:20 PM - 3:00 PM
      Demo of challenges
      Chairs:       Cui Aijiao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen), Hu Wei (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
    • 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM           BREAK
    • 3:20 PM - 4:40 PM
      Regular Paper Session 2: AI Hardware Security
      Session Chair: Fei Lyu (NUAA)
      • 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
      Toast: Tsung Yi HO (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
      Award ceremony: Best Paper Award and 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: Gang Qu (University of Maryland)
      Speaker: Makoto Nagata (Kobe University)
      Title: Side Channel Attacks Exploiting Electromagnetic Coupling Over Silicon Chip Backside
    • 9:50 AM - 10:40 AM
      Panel
      Moderator: Tsung-Yi Ho (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
      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: You Wang (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
      • Bug Hunting in the RISC-V SoC 1st Integrated Circuit Security Challenge
        Lei Peng, Jiacheng Zhu, Shibo Tang, Xingxin Wang, Qizhi Zhang, Xinyu Zheng, Yaxuan Zhao, Aijiao Cui, Wei Hu, Jiaji He and Pengfei Qiu - Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
    • 12:00 PM - 13:30 AM           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)
      • Co-Designing Circuit and Obfuscation for Secure and Efficient Hardware Across the Supply Chain
        Jianfeng Wang and Xueqing Li - Tsinghua University
      • A High-Accuracy MRAM Based Computing-in-Memory Macro for Robust Edge Security
        Jiao Dai, You Wang and Weiqiang Liu - NUAA
      • Toward Secure AI Hardware: Challenges, Attacks, and Countermeasures in Side-Channel Security of DNN Accelerators
        Le Wu, Liji Wu and Xiangmin Zhang - Tsinghua University
      • High-Efficiency SampleZ Module for FALCON: Reducing Latency and Resource Consumption
        Zeren Zhu, Bei Wang and Yijun Cui - NUAA
      • Unbox CPU: Testing Side-channel Leaks on Black-box CPUs through Automated Reverse Engineering
        Chang Liu and Dongsheng Wang - Tsinghua University
      • A lightweight and Configurable Unified Architecture of Multi-Mode PUF and TRNG Based on Modified Galois Ring Oscillator
        Zhengyang Ren, Yongjun Xia, Bei Wang, Chenghua Wang and Yijun Cui - NUAA
      • Towards Efficient FPGA Implementation of Rejection Sampling in CRYSTALS-Kyber
        Fangtian Gu and He Li - Southeast University
      • PUF Architecture Based on a Response Obfuscation Two-Dimensional Array
        Zhao Yang, Zhengfeng Huang and Yankun Lin - Hefei University of Technology
      • A Reconfigurable and Lightweight SHAKE256 Hardware Unit for SLH-DSA
        Yuhao Sun, Bei Wang and Yijun Cui - NUAA
      • PPGNN: Fast and Accurate Privacy-Preserving Graph Neural Network Inference via Parallel and Pipelined Arithmetic-and-Logic FHE Accelerator
        Wei Yuntao, Wang Xueyan, Bian Song, Huang Yicheng, Zhao Weisheng and Jin Yier - Beihang University
      • A Photonic Accelerator for Number Theoretic Transform in Post-Quantum Cryptography
        Tenglong Xiao, Bei Wang, Weiqiang Liu and Yijun Cui - NUAA
      • A Lightweight RFF-PUF Allied Mutual Authentication Scheme for IoD
        Xuanyu Chen and Yue Zheng - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
      • Real-Time Adaptive High-Performance Quantum Key Distribution Post-Processing on FPGAs
        Bingze Ye and He Li - Southeast University
    • 4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
      PhD Forum Poster with Snacks and Drink
      Session Chairs: Chongyan Gu (Queen's University Belfast), Bei Wang (NUAA)
      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