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

  • [01/2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 
  • [01/2024] Our group has moved to Tufts University.
  • [12/2023] Azi successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Famili!
  • [12/2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
  • [12/2023] One paper is accepted by AAAI 2024.
  • [11/2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).
  • [10/2023] One paper is accepted by BigData 2023.
  • [10/2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC).
  • [09/2023] One paper is invited by Sensors.
  • [08/2023] Our project 'Efficient, Cybersecure and Safe EV Operations in the Clemson Smart City Testbed' is funded by Innova EV and South Carolina Research Authority. Yingjie is the PI.
  • [07/2023] One paper is accepted by International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD).
  • [05/2023] One paper is accepted by 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023).
  • [05/2023] Yingjie has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.
  • [05/2023] Our project 'Towards Secure and Trustworthy Tree Models' is funded by NSF. Yingjie is the PI.
  • [04/2023] Joseph successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Clements!
  • [04/2023] Quinn successfully defended his M.S. thesis. Congratulations!
  • [03/2023] Our project 'Efficient and Scalable Privacy-Preserving Neural Network Inference based on Ciphertext-Ciphertext Fully Homomorphic Encryption' is funded by NSF. Yingjie is the lead PI.
  • [03/2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
  • [02/2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  • [02/2023] Our center project 'National University Transportation Center: TraCR' is funded by USDOT. Yingjie is a co-PI.