Cybersecurity and Knowledge Computing Lab

Join Our Research Team

We are seeking highly motivated PhD students to join our research group at Tufts University starting in Spring 2026 or Fall 2026. Two positions are available:

  1. Hardware Architecture / VLSI / Hardware Security - Research will focus on novel accelerator design, hardware-software co-design, and secure computing. Background in silicon photonics is a plus.
  2. Trusted AI and AI/ML for Healthcare - Research will focus on advancing trusted and responsible AI including security and privacy, or machine learning for healthcare applications. Prior publication in top-tier conferences is a strong plus.

To apply, please visit this link. Feel free to reach out to me (yingjie.lao@tufts.edu) if you are interested!

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Our Research in Action

Latest News

  • [02/2026] We are organizing the SPAR-3D Security, Privacy, and Adversarial Robustness in 3D Generative Vision Models Link Workshop at CVPR 2026. Please join us!
  • [12/2025] One paper is accepted by ACS Photonics.
  • [11/2025] One paper is accepted by WACV.
  • [11/2025] One paper is accepted by AAAI.
  • [09/2025] One paper is accepted by NeurIPS.
  • [07/2025] Our project 'EAGER: FDASS: Protect Intellectual Property of Software Code in the Age of Generative AI' is funded by NSF.
  • [06/2025] One paper is accepted by Asilomar.
  • [06/2025] Yingjie received the Best Reviewer Award for IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and System.
  • [04/2025] Kaiyuan’s poster received the Best Poster Award – 2nd Place at New England Hardware Security Day!
  • [02/2025] Two papers are accepted by CVPR.
  • [02/2025] One poster is accepted by ISFPGA.
  • [12/2024] Our project 'Integrated Photonic Physical Unclonable Functions for Optoelectronic Hardware Security' is funded by NSF.
  • [08/2024] Antian successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and will be joining Purdue University Fort Wayne as a tenure-track assistant professor. Congratulations Prof. Wang!
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  • [07/2024] One paper is accepted by Asilomar.
  • [06/2024] One paper is accepted by Active Photonic Platforms (APP). 
  • [05/2024] Yingjie received the Best Associate Editor Award for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems. News
  • [05/2024] Received an REU grant from NSF. 
  • [03/2024] One paper is accepted by ISCAS.
  • [02/2024] One paper is accepted by ICLR.