Hi, I'm Tianchi YU, a first-year Ph.D. student specializing in System Security at the University of Padova under the guidance of Prof. Mauro Conti. I am part of the Security and Privacy (SPRITZ) research group, and I also serve as an Industrial Ph.D. student, collaborating with Huawei's Trusted System Security Lab at Munich Heisenberg Researcher Center, supervised by senior expert Dr. Mahmoud Ammar and director Silviu Vlasceanu. I am also co-advised by Prof. Ivan De Oliveira Nunes from the Security and Privacy of Information, Networks, and Systems (SPINS) research group at University of Zurich.

My research interests are System/Hardware Security, Trustworthy Systems and Heterogenous Computing. I am highly receptive to engaging in Open Source Projects as well as any other compelling initiatives.

I obtained my first M.Sc. from École Polytechnique/IP-Paris in Cyber-Physical Systems, and my second M.Sc. (diplôme d'ingénieur) from Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, direction of Math and Computer Science. My first professional research project was at Nomadic Labs in 2021 on Smart Contract of Tezos Blockchain, where I was fortunate to work with Dr. Yann Régis-Gianas and Dr. Ric Bonichon. Soon after, I focused more on Hardware Security and Machine Learning Security, then I finished my Master Thesis with Dr. Laurent Gomez at SAP Security Research Team and we eventually published a scientific paper with the content of my thesis.

Beyond coding, I like anime, music and sports. I speak Mandarin, English and French. I enjoy reading, thinking and travelling.