Shijia Wei
Research Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolShijia Wei is a PhD candidate and research scholar based in Austin with 11 years of systems and security research experience focused on microarchitectural side channels and hardware enclaves. Her work spans software stacks—browsers, serverless, containers, VMs—and hardware from CPUs to accelerators, blending threat modeling, prototyping, and measurement for confidential computing. She has applied this expertise in industry research internships at Microsoft Azure and Facebook FAIR and in applied projects at AMD and Harvard SEAS. Known for exploring cross-layer vulnerabilities and performance trade-offs, she combines rigorous academic methods with practical engineering to make enclaves and cloud primitives measurably safer.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (118)
simulation10
openwhisk9
intel9
5g9
sanic9
coc-nvim9
computer-architecture9
lua9
async-await9
ide9
edge-computing9
neovim9
neovim-plugin9
spacevim9
cli8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
everskar2013/PentiumX
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 21 pushes in 5 months
mipsin-coresimplified
0x161e-swei/dotfiles
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:28 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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