Chongyan Gu

Dr. Chongyan Gu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast, part of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Her research focuses on hardware security, particularly Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), approximate computing vulnerabilities, and IoT device security. She leads the EPSRC New Investigator Award-funded project on Hardware Security for Approximate Computing and has secured industry collaborations with LG-CNS and defense companies. Dr. Gu has received notable awards including the INVENT2015 Overall Winner and Pramod Subramanyan Presentation Award.

Her research has been commercialized, such as licensing PUF technology for EV charging systems and defense applications. She collaborates internationally through EU projects with Fraunhofer and ETRI. Dr. Gu serves as an IEEE Senior Member, Guest Editor for IEEE TCAS-I, and editorial roles for conferences like IEEE ISCAS and AsianHOST. She has delivered tutorials at ASP-DAC and HiPEAC, emphasizing practical PUF design and hardware security challenges.

Key technical contributions include PUF-based authentication protocols, machine learning-resistant security solutions, and vulnerability analysis in approximate computing. Her work addresses emerging threats like Rowhammer attacks and hardware Trojans, leveraging graph attention networks for detection. Recent publications highlight advancements in RRAM-based PUFs, FPGA implementations, and defense mechanisms for modern DRAM systems.