Research

Research Interests

      My research interests lie in hardware/systems security with a side on computer systems. Recently my work has been focused on discovering new side channel attack techniques and reverse engineering microarchitectural structures. I’m currently advised by Profesor Chris Fletcher in the BS/MS (thesis) program at UIUC.

Current Project

      I am currently working on a project in hardware security. Specifically, I am reverse engineering hardware and searching for microarchitectural side channel attacks. One of the goals of this work is to bridge the gap between theory and practice as well as changing how we think about microarchitectural security.

Publications

• Peek-a-Walk: Leaking Secrets via Page Walk Side Channels
  Alan Wang, Boru Chen, Yingchen Wang, Christopher W. Fletcher, Daniel Genkin, David Kohlbrenner, Riccardo Paccagnella
  To appear in the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2025
  [Link][Code]
• Declassiflow: A Static Analysis for Modeling Non-Speculative Knowledge to Relax Speculative Execution Security Measures
  Rutvik Choudhary, Alan Wang, Zirui Zhao, Adam Morrison, Christopher W. Fletcher
  Appears in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023
  [Link][Arxiv][Code]
• Mars Ice Thermal Harvesting Rig & ISRU Laboratory (MITHRIL)
  Alec Auster, Ana Bojinov, Shikhar Kesarwani, Galen Sieck, Riya Shah, Madeline Odeen, Sara McCarthy, Madison Frankenthor, Komol Patel, Grant Davis, Fuad Samhouri, Eugene Lim, Gautam Dayal, Brody Lauer, Alonzo Arostegui, Ishaan Bansal, Alan Wang, Jack Kosiarz, Zoe Mihevc, Avinash Raju, Katharine Moy, Atishi Porwal, Ariana Kulcsar, Joey Palmowski, Michael Lembeck, Zachary Putnam and Linyi Hou
  Appears in the preceedings of the AIAA ASCEND conference, 2022
  [Link]