Jason Zhijingcheng Yu
- [my surname].z@u.nus.edu
- Address
- COM3-02-18, 11 Research Link, Singapore 119391
Hi! I am a PhD student at KISP Lab, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. I am working with Prateek Saxena on system security.
I am interested in building systems with provable security guarantees. The main projects I am currently working on are: Capstone, a capability-based architecture providing a principled foundation for securing diverse and complex applications, and AnvilHDL, a hardware description language which helps prevent common bugs at design time.
Before PhD, I earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University.
Latest News
- January 2026: I received NUS SoC Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award!
- November 2025: On 24 November, I will give a talk on AnvilHDL at Singapore PL Summit.
- November 2025: AnvilHDL has been accepted at ASPLOS '26!
- October 2025: I will attend CCS '25 in Taipei, presenting our work on CapsLock.
Publications (* indicates equal contributions)
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Anvil: A General-Purpose Timing-Safe Hardware Description Language
To appear at ASPLOS 2026Jason Zhijingcheng Yu*, Aditya Ranjan Jha*, Umang Mathur, Trevor E. Carlson, Prateek Saxena
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Securing Mixed Rust with Hardware Capabilities
In proceedings of ACM CCS 2025Jason Zhijingcheng Yu*, Fangqi Han*, Kaustab Choudhury, Trevor E. Carlson, Prateek Saxena
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Caplification: Bridging Capability-Aware and Capability-Oblivious Software
In proceedings of ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies 2025Jason Zhijingcheng Yu, Mingkai Li, Trevor E. Carlson, Michael Swift, Prateek Saxena
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Capstone: A Capability-based Foundation for Trustless Secure Memory Access
In proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium 2023Jason Zhijingcheng Yu, Conrad Watt, Aditya Badole, Trevor E. Carlson, Prateek Saxena
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Elasticlave: An Efficient Memory Model for Enclaves
In proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium 2022Jason Zhijingcheng Yu, Shweta Shinde, Trevor E. Carlson, Prateek Saxena
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SmashEx: Smashing SGX Enclaves Using Exceptions
In proceedings of ACM CCS 2021Jinhua Cui*, Jason Zhijingcheng Yu*, Shweta Shinde, Trevor E. Carlson, Prateek Saxena
Posters
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May 2025An Architecture Design for Expressive SecurityAt RISC-V Summit Europe 2025 (Paris, France)
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November 2022SmashEx: Smashing SGX Enclaves Using ExceptionsAt ACM CCS 2022 (Los Angeles, USA)
CVE Credits
Teaching
- Introduction to Computer Security (CS3235, Spring 2022)
- Introduction to Computer Security (CS3235, Spring 2021)
- Systems Security (CS5231, Fall 2020)
- Data Structures and Algorithms (CS2010, Spring 2020)
Service
- Reviewer, ACM TACO (2025)
- Program Committee Member, AsiaCCS '26
- NUS CS Department Security Area Search Committee student member (2025)
- President, NUS Graduate Student Society Cycling Interest Group (2023)
- Vice-President of Public Relations & Sergeant-at-Arms, NUS Toastmasters Club (2023)
Miscellaneous
In my free time, I enjoy swimming, bicycling, hiking, and reading. I used to participate in competitive programming and still enjoy occasionally solving a problem or two for fun. You can find me on Codeforces and Topcoder.