
Unit: University of Central Florida
Title: Associate Professor
Dr. Yao is broadly interested in computer architecture and systems research with an emphasis on security. His re-
cent research efforts span the areas of Microarchitecture Security (e.g., microarchitectural attacks/defenses),
Secure Processor Architectures, AI Security (e.g., hardware-based model extraction and tampering), and
Trusted/Privacy-preserving Computing for emerging applications.