Ph.D. student ‘23 in Cyber Science and Engineering @ HUST, supervised by Prof. Peng Xu. My research interests lie in cryptography, secure computation, and high-performance computing.

EDUCATION

  • 2023.09 - Now, Ph.D. of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06, Bachelor of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

NEWS

2026.06: Our paper was accepted by ESORICS’26.

2025.12: Our paper was published on SCIS’26.

2025.12: Our paper was accepted by AsianHOST’25.

2025.06: Our paper was accepted by ESORICS’25.

2024.10: Our paper was accepted by ICCAD’24.

PUBLICATIONS

  • AMG: Memory Efficient Architecture for FHE-based Secure Matrix Multiplication on GPU
    Yifan Yang, Jiayu Dong, Mengxi Fan, Peng Xu, Wei Wang, Guomin Yang.
    [ESORICS'26] 31st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.

  • Anamorphic Commitment: Robust Privacy Under Coercion and Parameter Tampering
    Weiqi Wang, Yubo Zheng, Peng Xu, Wei Wang, Rongmao Chen, Yifan Yang, Moti Yung.
    [SCIS'26] Science China Information Sciences 2026.

  • Privacy-Preserving CNN Inference on FPGA Framework with High Throughput
    Qidong Chen, Yifan Yang, Wenpeng Zhao, Yijie Wang, Zhaojun Lu, Peng Xu and Jiliang Zhang.
    [AsianHOST'25] 2025 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium.

  • Athena: Accelerating KeySwitch and Bootstrapping for Fully Homomorphic Encryption on CUDA GPU
    Yifan Yang, Kexin Zhang, Peng Xu, Zhaojun Lu, Wei Wang, Weiqi Wang, Kaitai Liang.
    [ESORICS'25] 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.

  • An FPGA-based Key-Switching Acceleratorwith Ultra-High Throughput for FHE
    Zhaojun Lu, Peng Xu, Yijie Wang, Yifan Yang, Qidong Chen, Weizong Yu, Gang Qu.
    [ICCAD'24] Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.

Open Sources

  • Hi-FHE: A Kunpeng 920-based FHE acceleration system (Gitee)

HONORS & AWARDS

Academic:

  • 2026 - National Scholarship
  • 2026 - Self-Improvement Scholarship
  • 2025 - Science and Technology Innovation Scholarship
  • 2023, 2024, 2025 - Academic Scholarship
  • 2023 - Outstanding Graduate
  • 2021 - Science and Technology Innovation Scholarship

Competition:

  • 2024 - ByteCTF - National Second Prize (Runner-up) - Team Member
  • 2024 - Qiangwang Cup National Cybersecurity Challenge - Top10 - Team Member
  • 2021 - National Student Information Security Competition - National Second Prize - Team Member

CONTACT

Email:

  • yangyifan@hust.edu.cn