Research
Research Interests
My research interests lie in hardware/systems security with a side on computer systems. Recently, my work has been focused on side-channel vulnerabilities inherent to graphics stacks and discovering new microarchitectural side-channel attack techniques. I’m currently advised by Professor Chris Fletcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
If you are an undergrad and want to work with me, please see this.
Publications
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Under submission :D
- Pixnapping: Bringing Pixel Stealing out of the Stone Age
Alan Wang, Pranav Gopalkrishnan, Yingchen Wang, Christopher W. Fletcher, Hovav Shacham, David Kohlbrenner, Riccardo Paccagnella
Appears in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025
[Website][Paper][Code]
CVE-2025-48561, CVE-2025-48630
First Google Acknowledgement, Second Google Acknowledgement
First Google Patch, Second Google Patch, Third Google Patch
3x Google VRP Reward :D
Ars Technica,
The Register,
Cylab News,
The Hacker News,
Malwarebytes,
Bitdefender,
Forbes,
SecurityWeek,
Wired,
ZDNET,
9to5Google,
Risky Business,
BleepingComputer,
TechSpot,
Fortune,
Lifehacker,
Dark Reading,
Android Police,
Mashable,
PCMag,
LWN,
Kaspersky
- EMT: An OS Framework for New Memory Translation Architectures
Siyuan Chai∗, Jiyuan Zhang∗, Jongyul Kim, Alan Wang, Fan Chung, Jovan Stojkovic, Weiwei Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Josep Torrellas, and Tianyin
Appears in the Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), July 2025
[Paper][Code]
Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention 2026
- 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
Appears in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2025
[Paper][Code]
Intel's Guidance
- 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
[Paper][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
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