Andrew Kwong

Andrew Kwong is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on computer security and applied cryptography, particularly side-channel attacks and defenses, including Rowhammer, Spectre, and cache timing vulnerabilities. He teaches courses such as Hardware Security and Side-Channels and Research Topics in Computer Security, covering topics like transient execution attacks, speculative probing, and cryptographic implementation flaws.

• Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill
• Assistant Professor
• Teaching COMP 790-184 (Hardware Security) and COMP 790-185 (Computer Security Research)

His research involves cutting-edge work on hardware vulnerabilities, including Rowhammer-based key recovery in post-quantum cryptography, cache eviction side-channels, and speculative execution attacks. His publications appear at top venues like IEEE S&P, CCS, and USENIX Security. He received a Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at CCS 2022 for his work on FrodoKEM exploitation.

Key trends in his publications include leveraging hardware flaws for data leakage, cryptographic protocol breakdowns, and combining transient execution with memory corruption attacks. His work has implications for hardware design security and cryptographic implementation practices.

• Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, CCS 2022

Contact: andrew@cs.unc.edu