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Yingjie Lao earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2015. Dr.
Lao has held academic positions as an Assistant Professor
at Clemson University and currently serves as an Associate
Professor at Tufts University. Dr. Lao has been advising
and consulting for several companies and start-ups.
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Yingjie Lao
Associate Professor at Tufts University working on trusted AI and hardware
Research Expertise
AI
Security
VLSI
About
Yingjie Lao earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from the University of
Minnesota in 2015. Dr. Lao has held academic
positions as an Assistant Professor at Clemson
University and currently serves as an
Associate Professor at Tufts University. Dr.
Lao has been advising and consulting for
several companies and start-ups.
Publications
LIRA: Learnable, Imperceptible and Robust
Backdoor Attacks
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference
on Computer Vision (ICCV)
2021
Marksman Backdoor: Backdoor Attacks with
Arbitrary Target Class
Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems 35
2022
Hardware Trojan Design on Neural Networks
2019 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2019
Obfuscating DSP Circuits via High-Level
Transformations
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale
Integration (VLSI) Systems
2015
Statistical Analysis of MUX-Based Physical
Unclonable Functions
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided
Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems
2014
Rallying Adversarial Techniques against
Deep Learning for Network Security
2021 IEEE Symposium Series on
Computational Intelligence (SSCI)
2021
True Random Number Generator circuits
based on single- and multi-phase beat
frequency detection
Proceedings of the IEEE 2014 Custom
Integrated Circuits Conference
2014
Robust Watermarking for Deep Neural
Networks via Bi-level Optimization
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference
on Computer Vision (ICCV)
2021
An In-Place FFT Architecture for
Real-Valued Signals
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems II: Express Briefs
2013
Reliable PUF-Based Local Authentication
With Self-Correction
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided
Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems
2017
Defending Backdoor Attacks on Vision
Transformer via Patch Processing
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
2023
Robust optical physical unclonable
function using disordered photonic
integrated circuits
Nanophotonics
2020
CLPA: Clean-Label Poisoning Availability
Attacks Using Generative Adversarial Nets
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
2022
BACKDOOR ATTACKS ON NEURAL NETWORK
OPERATIONS
2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal
and Information Processing
(GlobalSIP)
2018
Reconfigurable architectures for silicon
Physical Unclonable Functions
2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ELECTRO/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
2011
DeepAuth: A DNN Authentication Framework
by Model-Unique and Fragile Signature
Embedding
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
2022
High-Speed Modular Multiplier for
Lattice-Based Cryptosystems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems II: Express Briefs
2021
Enhancing PUF reliability by machine
learning
2017 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2017
High-Speed VLSI Architectures for Modular
Polynomial Multiplication via Fast
Filtering and Applications to
Lattice-Based Cryptography
IEEE Transactions on Computers
2023
Mathematical Modeling Analysis of Strong
Physical Unclonable Functions
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided
Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems
2020
Identification for Deep Neural Network:
Simply Adjusting Few Weights!
2022 IEEE 38th International Conference
on Data Engineering (ICDE)
2022
Towards Class-Oriented Poisoning Attacks
Against Neural Networks
2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on
Applications of Computer Vision
(WACV)
2022
Soft Response Generation and Thresholding
Strategies for Linear and Feed-Forward MUX
PUFs
Proceedings of the 2016 International
Symposium on Low Power Electronics and
Design
2016
Estimating Delay Differences of Arbiter
PUFs Using Silicon Data
Proceedings of the 2016 Design,
Automation & Test in Europe
Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
2016
Multilingual Prompt Injection Attacks
Detection: Evaluating Adversarial
Robustness in Large Language Models
Unknown Venue
2025
PaReNTT: Low-Latency Parallel Residue
Number System and NTT-Based Long
Polynomial Modular Multiplication for
Homomorphic Encryption
IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security
2024
NoPUF: A Novel PUF Design Framework Toward
Modeling Attack Resistant PUFs
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems I: Regular Papers
2021
Scalable and CMOS compatible silicon
photonic physical unclonable functions for
supply chain assurance
Scientific Reports
2022
Machine Unlearning in Gradient Boosting
Decision Trees
Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining
2023
Protecting DSP circuits through
obfuscation
2014 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2014
Efficient fuzzy extractor implementations
for PUF based authentication
2017 12th International Conference on
Malicious and Unwanted Software
(MALWARE)
2017
KyberMat: Efficient Accelerator for
Matrix-Vector Polynomial Multiplication in
CRYSTALS-Kyber Scheme via NTT and
Polyphase Decomposition
2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference
on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
2023
Pipelined High-Throughput NTT Architecture
for Lattice-Based Cryptography
2021 Asian Hardware Oriented Security
and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)
2021
DeepHardMark: Towards Watermarking Neural
Network Hardware
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
2022
An Ultra-Highly Parallel Polynomial
Multiplier for the Bootstrapping Algorithm
in a Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme
Journal of Signal Processing
Systems
2020
Resilience of Pruned Neural Network
Against Poisoning Attack
2018 13th International Conference on
Malicious and Unwanted Software
(MALWARE)
2018
PUF Modeling Attack using Active Learning
2018 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2018
Beat Frequency Detector--Based High-Speed
True Random Number Generators
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in
Computing Systems
2016
UIBDiffusion: Universal Imperceptible
Backdoor Attack for Diffusion Models
2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition
(CVPR)
2025
Deep Neural Network Quantization Framework
for Effective Defense against Membership
Inference Attacks
Sensors
2023
Efficient Data Extraction Circuit for
Posit Number System: LDD-Based Posit
Decoder
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided
Design of Integrated Circuits and
Systems
2024
On the Construction of Composite Finite
Fields for Hardware Obfuscation
IEEE Transactions on Computers
2019
An Efficient Polynomial Multiplier
Architecture for the Bootstrapping
Algorithm in a Fully Homomorphic
Encryption Scheme
2019 IEEE International Workshop on
Signal Processing Systems (SiPS)
2019
Blacoh Fluid Control receives US patent
World Pumps
2019
Canonic FFT flow graphs for real-valued
even/odd symmetric inputs
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal
Processing
2017
Towards Model Quantization on the
Resilience Against Membership Inference
Attacks
2022 IEEE International Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP)
2022
Hardware Acceleration for Postdecision
State Reinforcement Learning in IoT
Systems
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
2022
Canonic real-valued FFT structures
2014 48th Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems and Computers
2014
Investigating the Robustness Against
Transferable Adversarial Attacks of
Learning-Based Network Intrusion Detection
System
2024 RIVF International Conference on
Computing and Communication Technologies
(RIVF)
2024
NL2GDPR: Automatically Develop GDPR
Compliant Android Application Features
from Natural Language
2022 IEEE Conference on Communications
and Network Security (CNS)
2022
An obfuscated radix-2 real FFT
architecture
2015 IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP)
2015
Fully Attentional Networks with
Self-emerging Token Labeling
2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference
on Computer Vision (ICCV)
2023
Area-Efficient Matrix-Vector Polynomial
Multiplication Architecture for ML-KEM
Using Interleaving and Folding
Transformation
2024 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2024
A New Error Correction Scheme for Physical
Unclonable Function
2018 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
Circuits and Systems (APCCAS)
2018
SpARK: An Embarrassingly Simple Sparse
Watermarking in LLMs with Enhanced Text
Quality
Findings of the Association for
Computational Linguistics: EACL
2026
2026
Sailfish: A Dependency-Aware and Resource
Efficient Scheduling for Low Latency in
Clouds
2023 IEEE International Conference on
Big Data (BigData)
2023
Integral Sampler and Polynomial
Multiplication Architecture for
Lattice-based Cryptography
2022 IEEE International Symposium on
Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and
Nanotechnology Systems (DFT)
2022
Integrity Authentication in Tree Models
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining
2022
DC MUX PUF: A highly reliable feed-back
MUX PUF based on measuring duty cycle
2017 IEEE 12th International Conference
on ASIC (ASICON)
2017
Preprint site arXiv is banning
computer-science reviews: here’s why
Nature
2025
Reliable Hardware Watermarks for Deep
Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale
Integration (VLSI) Systems
2024
Area-Efficient Pipelined VLSI Architecture
for Polar Decoder
2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual
Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
2020
Canonic Composite Length Real-Valued FFT
Journal of Signal Processing
Systems
2017
Data-Canonic Real FFT Flow-Graphs for
Composite Lengths
2016 IEEE International Workshop on
Signal Processing Systems (SiPS)
2016
Canonic real-valued radix-2n FFT
computations
2015 49th Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems and Computers
2015
Optoelectronic Physical Unclonable
Functions and Reservoir-Inspired
Computation with Low Symmetry Integrated
Photonics
ACS Photonics
2025
Advancing Adversarial Robustness in
GNeRFs: The IL2-NeRF Attack
2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition
(CVPR)
2025
In Pursuit of Preserving the Fidelity of
Adversarial Images
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and
Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2022
Haptic Glove for Object Recognition and
Hand Motion Detection
2020 Chinese Automation Congress
(CAC)
2020
Efficient PUF Error Correction through
Response Weighting
2018 IEEE 61st International Midwest
Symposium on Circuits and Systems
(MWSCAS)
2018
A Systematic Method for Approximate
Circuit Design Using Feature Selection
2018 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2018
UltraClean: A Simple Framework to Train
Robust Neural Networks against Backdoor
Attacks
2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on
Applications of Computer Vision
(WACV)
2026
HERMES: Homomorphic Encryption over
Residual Number System for Multi-level
EvaluationS
Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM
International Conference on
Computer-Aided Design
2024
Hardware Acceleration for Fully
Homomorphic Encryption Scheme Switching
from CKKS to FHEW
2024 58th Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems, and Computers
2024
Resource Efficient Deep Learning Hardware
Watermarks with Signature Alignment
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
2024
Homomorphic Evaluation Friendly Vision
Transformer Design
2023 57th Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems, and Computers
2023
Electrically reconfigurable photonic PUF
based on a moiré quasicrystal
interferometer
Conference on Lasers and
Electro-Optics
2022
Action Evaluation Hardware Accelerator for
Next-Generation Real-Time Reinforcement
Learning in Emerging IoT Systems
2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual
Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
2020
Robust hashing for image authentication
using quaternion discrete Fourier
transform and log-polar transform
Digital Signal Processing
2015
ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI
slop
AAAS Articles DO Group
2026
SCALEX: Scalable Concept and Latent
Exploration for Diffusion Models
2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on
Applications of Computer Vision
(WACV)
2026
BAM-ICL: Causal Hijacking In-Context
Learning with Budgeted Adversarial
Manipulation
Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems 38
2025
Comment on the Paper Titled ’The Origin of
Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Insights
from Research on Human Language’ (arXiv
preprint arXiv:2407.14924, 2024)
Unknown Venue
2024
Threats of Trojan Incursion in
Transportation Hardware
2023 IEEE International Automated
Vehicle Validation Conference
(IAVVC)
2023
Genetic-based Joint Dynamic Pruning and
Learning Algorithm to Boost DNN
Performance
2022 26th International Conference on
Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
2022
POSB162 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of
Intravascular Ultrasound in Percutaneous
Coronary Intervention
Value in Health
2022
HEDWIG: Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator
Design Using BFV-HPS With High-Speed
Fixed-Point Approximation
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems I: Regular Papers
2026
ArXiv, the pioneering preprint server,
declares independence from Cornell
AAAS Articles DO Group
2026
Robust Watermarking on Gradient Boosting
Decision Trees
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
2026
Education
University of Minnesota
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering / July, 2015
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United
States of America
Experience
Tufts University
Associate Professor / January, 2024 — Present
Clemson University
Assistant Professor / August, 2016 — January, 2024
Broadcom
IC Design Engineer / July, 2015 — August, 2016
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