Yan Xu
PhD Student
Hunan University
Research Interests
About
Hi, I'm a Ph.D. student in the College of Semiconductors at Hunan University.
My research focuses on hardware accelerators for cryptography and photonic-electronic architecture design. I’m working on building efficient and secure chips and hardware systems for next-generation applications. I'm also interested in creating and testing hardware security primitives, especially for protecting data in new technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and large AI models.
I really enjoy working across different fields. I'd love to chat and collaborate with people in cryptography, digital circuit design, large language models, and AI. I'm also excited to connect with students and researchers from areas like automotive tech, agriculture, or biomedicine—Let's team up and explore together how hardware security can help in new and unexpected ways.
Feel free to reach out—I'm always open to new ideas and collaborations!
Selected Publications
View All →Meta: A Memory-Efficient Tri-Stage Polynomial Multiplication Accelerator Using 2D Coupled-BFUs
Yan Xu, Liang Ding, Peng He, Zhenyu Lu, Jianming Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Built on FPGA, Meta provides specialized hardware acceleration for cryptographic operators, with optimized support for NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms.
Fama: An FPGA-Oriented Multi-Scalar Multiplication Accelerator Optimized via Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design
Yan Xu, Jianming Zhang, Xiangdong Dong, Anran Wang, Xiong Wang, Linyi Zhu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
FAMA is an FPGA-oriented accelerator for Multi-Scalar Multiplication (MSM), a key bottleneck in zero-knowledge proofs, achieving over 184× speedup over CPUs and superior efficiency over other FPGA designs through algorithm-hardware co-design.
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