Gang Qu

Professor Gang Qu is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research (ISR). He leads the Maryland Embedded System and Hardware Security (MeshSec) Lab and the Wireless Sensors Laboratory. His research focuses on hardware security, VLSI design automation, low-power systems, and IoT security. Dr. Qu has over 300 publications and holds leadership roles in conferences like AsianHOST and GLSVLSI. He has received IEEE Fellow (2021), Best Paper Awards, and the George Corcoran Teaching Award (2002). His work spans secure scan design, PUF-based authentication, and fault-resistant systems.

Education: Ph.D./M.S. in Computer Science (UCLA), Mathematics studies at USTC and University of Oklahoma.

Research Interests: Exploiting hardware vulnerabilities (e.g., transient execution attacks), secure design techniques (polymorphic gates, scan-based DfT), and energy-efficient computing. Recent work includes ARM Memory Disambiguation Unit (ARMeD) attacks and FPGA-based cryptographic accelerators.

Awards include IEEE Fellow (2021), ACM Recognition of Service Awards (2019, 2006), and Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award (2020). He advises numerous graduate students in hardware security and VLSI.

Labs: MeshSec Lab and Wireless Sensors Lab. Active in NSF as a program director in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace.