Winning Silver Award at Hack the Silicon at Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2025

The CityUHK team, comprising Postdoc and PhD students from Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) and Department of Data Science (DS), has won the Silver Award at Hack the Silicon (HACK) at Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2025.

Team: GhostInTheCipher
Supervisor: Prof Ray Cheung, Associate Provost (Digital Learning) and Professor of EE; Prof Patrick Hung, Adjunct Professor of EE

Members: Miss JIN Shutong, Mr ZHANG Wenjie (EE PhD students), Dr SHEN Shiyu (EE Postdoc), Dr YANG Hao (DS Postdoc)

HackTheSilicon is the premier hardware security contest where computer scientists and industry experts explore security vulnerabilities in system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. It aims to train hardware security experts, design and develop advanced methodologies and automated tools for detecting hardware security vulnerabilities, and aid community testing and open sourcing.