Jiafeng Xie

Jiafeng (Harvest) Xie (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.E. degree from Central South University in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014.,He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PA. His research interests include cryptographic engineering, hardware security, post-quantum cryptography, and VLSI implementation of neural network systems.,Dr. Xie has served as a Technical Committee Member for many reputed conferences, such as HOST, ICCAD, and DAC. He received the IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor for the year of 2019 and the Best Paper Award from IEEE HOST’19. He is also currently serving as an Associate Editor for Microelectronics Journal and IEEE Access. He was serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs.

Research Interests

Cryptographic Engineering

Post-quantum cryptography related design, implementation and security analysis

Fault Attack and Detection

Novel algorithm-architecture fault attack and detection methodologies for pre-/post-quantum cryptographic circuits

Hardware Security

Hardware IP protection and hardware security primitives for resource-constrained systems

Computer Arithmetic/Digital Design

VLSI digital signal processing and neural network systems design

Education

• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 01/2013 - 12/2014 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
• Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China 09/2007 - 07/2010 M. E. in Control Science and Engineering
• Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China 09/2002 - 07/2006 B. E. in Measurement & Control Technology and Instrumentation

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, August 2018 - Present
• Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, January 2015 - July 2018
• Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, January 2013 - December 2014. Project: Novel cryptographic circuits for emerging embedded systems security
• Research Assistant, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, September 2010 - June 2012. Projects: Hardware efficient implementation of cryptographic circuits and digital signal/image processing systems
• Research Assistant, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, September 2007 - June 2010. Project: FPGA-based portable B-ultrasonic diagnosis device