Chen Decheng
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Chen Decheng

Visiting PhD Student

ChocoLab · School of Computing, National University of Singapore

Visiting from South China University of Technology

Bio

Decheng is a PhD student at South China University of Technology, visiting the NUS School of Computing for one year and working with Flavien Solt. Decheng works on system and hardware security, including confidential computing.

Decheng's research covers side-channel attacks and the security of trusted computing systems. Before the PhD, Decheng worked as a system engineer on Arm and RISC-V system software, and contributed to the Linux kernel.

Research interests

  • System security
  • Hardware security
  • Confidential computing
  • Side-channel attacks

Education

  • PhD in System Security, South China University of Technology. Advisor: Yi Zou. External advisor: Zhi Zhang.
  • MEng in Computer Science, The University of Sydney
  • BE in Software Engineering, Beijing Normal University

Teaching

  • Teaching assistant, Computer Organization and Architecture, South China University of Technology, 2024 to 2025

Publications

2026

USENIX Security

UncoreBleed: AEX-Free, High-Resolution, and Low-Noise Side-Channel Attacks on SGX Enclaved Execution

Decheng Chen, Zhi Zhang, Zhenkai Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yansong Gao, and Yi Zou

2024

ACM ASIA CCS

SoK: Rowhammer on Commodity Operating Systems

Zhi Zhang, Decheng Chen (co-first author), Jiahao Qi, Yueqiang Cheng, Shijie Jiang, Yiyang Lin, Yansong Gao, Surya Nepal, Yi Zou, Jiliang Zhang, and Yang Xiang