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Dr Chongyan Gu

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dr Chongyan Gu

Dr Chongyan Gu

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Our research focuses on developing secure and low-cost hardware architectures for resource-constrained IoT and edge environments. We explore hardware security vulnerabilities in AI accelerators and embedded platforms, including side-channel, fault-injection, and machine learning attacks. We aim to design lightweight, energy-efficient protection mechanisms and frameworks that ensure root of trust, data integrity, and privacy, enabling scalable and affordable deployment of secure hardware security technologies in low-cost edge applications and next-generation intelligent devices.

 

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  • C.Gu@qub.ac.uk

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Semiconductor security
  • Hardware security in Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded devices
  • Physical unclonable functions (PUFs)
  • Security in/for approximate computing
  • Machine learning-based modelling attacks
  • Hardware security attacks, including side channel attacks, fault injection, and RowHammer attacks, etc

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Public outreach & key achievements

Her research into physical unclonable functions (PUFs) has been utilised as part of a security architecture for electronic vehicle (EV) charging systems, licensed by LG-CNS, South Korea, and was also licensed for evaluation by a UK defence company. Her team was the overall winner of INVENT 2015, a competition to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative ideas. She has significant international research collaboration experiences, e.g. EU FP7 Sparks project with Fraunhofer, Germany and KeyHAS project with ETRI, South Korea. 


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