I am final-year Ph.D. student at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. My supervisor is Prof. Tianwei Zhang. Before that, I received my B.Eng. degree and M.Sci. degree from Zhejiang University, China.

Research Interests

• System Security and AI Privacy
• Trusted Execution Environment
• Side-channel Attacks and Defenses
• Cloud-native Confidential Container Design

Publications

• Protecting Confidential Virtual Machines from Hardware Performance Counter Side Channels
  Xiaoxuan Lou, Kangjie Chen, Guowen Xu, Han Qiu, Shangwei Guo, Tianwei Zhang
  IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2024

• MERCURY: An Automated Remote Side-channel Attack to Nvidia Deep Learning Accelerator
  Xiaobei Yan, Xiaoxuan Lou, Guowen Xu, Han Qiu, Shangwei Guo, Chip Hong Chang, Tianwei Zhang
  IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2023

• Mastering Stock Markets with Efficient Mixture of Diversified Trading Experts
  Shuo Sun, Xinrun Wang, Wanqi Xue, Xiaoxuan Lou, Bo An
  ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2023

• Clean-image Backdoor: Attacking Multi-label Models with Poisoned Labels Only
  Kangjie Chen, Xiaoxuan Lou*, Guowen Xu, Jiwei Li, Tianwei Zhang
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023 (Oral, Notable-top-5%)

• Ownership Verification of DNN Architectures via Hardware Cache Side Channels
  Xiaoxuan Lou, Shangwei Guo, Jiwei Li, Tianwei Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023

• NASPY: Automated Extraction of Automated Machine Learning Models
  Xiaoxuan Lou, Shangwei Guo, Jiwei Li, Yaoxin Wu, Tianwei Zhang
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022 (Spotlight)

• A survey of microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses in cryptography
  Xiaoxuan Lou, Tianwei Zhang, Jun Jiang, Yinqian Zhang
  ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022

• Imperceptible misclassification attack on deep learning accelerator by glitch injection
  Wenye Liu, Chip-Hong Chang, Fan Zhang, Xiaoxuan Lou
  ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020

• Understanding Rowhammer attacks through the lens of a unified reference framework
  Xiaoxuan Lou, Fan Zhang, Zheng Leong Chua, Zhenkai Liang, Yueqiang Cheng, Yajin Zhou
  arXiv, 2019

• Persistent fault analysis on block ciphers
  Fan Zhang, Xiaoxuan Lou, Xinjie Zhao, Shivam Bhasin, Wei He, Ruyi Ding, Samiya Qureshi, Kui Ren
  IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2018

Honors and Awards

• 2018 Samsung Scholarship
• 2016 The Second Prize for National College Student Information Security Contest

Service

• ICLR, ICML, AAAI Reviewer
• HPCA Artifact Reviewer
• TIFS Reviewer