Mengjia Yan
Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolMengjia Yan is an assistant professor in MIT's EECS department and a CSAIL researcher with 11 years of experience focused on computer architecture and hardware security. Her work centers on transient execution attacks and cache-based side channels, blending deep systems design with practical defenses. Trained at Zhejiang University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. in Computer Science), she brings a rigorous academic background to applied security problems. Based in the Urbana-Champaign area, she combines hardware-aware threat modeling with experimental validation on real platforms, often revealing subtle microarchitectural vulnerabilities that elude software-only analysis.
11 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (10)
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react9
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gem57
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mjyan0720/InvisiSpec-1.0
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Gem5 implementation of "InvisiSpec", a defense mechanism of speculative execution attacks on cache hierarchy.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 10 months
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mjyan0720/CS425sp15
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:57 pushes in 19 days
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