Principal Investigator

Fan Yao
Associate Professor

359 Harris Engineering Center (HEC)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Central Florida

Dr. Fan Yao is currently an Associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida. His general research interests are in the areas of computer architecture, systems and security. His recent research focuses on architecture security (microarchitecture attacks and defenses), AI/ML Security, secure and efficient memory systems (e.g., NVM), hardware security (physical side channels) and energy-efficient computing.

Current Team Members

Kunbei Cai
PhD Student

Kunbei’s research interests are in the areas of ML/AI security and hardware security. Prior to joining UCF, he obtained M.Sc. degree in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Jafar Vafaei
PhD Student

Jafar’s research interests are in the area of AI accelerator designs and secure processor architecture. Before joining UCF, he obtained the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran.

Sagor Biswas
PhD Student

Sagor’s research interests are in the areas of ML/AI security and computer architecture. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy
PostDoc

Md Hafizul (Reyad) Chowdhuryy’s research area is in computer architecture with a focus in secure computing system and emerging memory architecture. Reyad obtained the MEng. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Reyad completed his PhD in Summer 2024 at UCF CASR Lab.

Team Alumni

Gustavo Diaz Galeas
Chase Harwell
Casey Newcomer
Elier Bermudez