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Dr Lichao Wu

BEng, MSc, PhD

  • BS8 1UB

Accepting PhD Students

Personal profile

Research interests

My research spans two parts: hardware security and AI security.

In hardware security, I develop and analyse methods to uncover and mitigate vulnerabilities in pre-silicon and post-silicon haradware, including deep-learning enhanced side-channel analysis, hardware fuzzing, reinforcement-learning guided testing, and microcode-guided CPU evaluations.

In AI security, I investigate security and trustworthiness issues in modern artificial intelligence, including attacks and defenses on large language models and their deployment in safety-critical contexts, exploring both algorithmic and system-level threats.

Research Groups and Themes

  • Cyber Security

Keywords

  • Hardware Security
  • AI Security & Safety

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  • GateBreaker: Gate-Guided Attacks on Mixture-of-Expert LLMs

    Wu, L., Behrouzi, S., Rostami, M., Picek, S. & Sadeghi, A.-R., 12 Aug 2026, 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 26). USENIX Association, (USENIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

    Open Access
  • GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing

    Wu, L., Rostami, M., Li, H., Singh, N. & Sadeghi, A.-R., 23 Feb 2026, The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2026. Internet Society, (NETWORK AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SECURITY SYMPOSIUM).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

    Open Access
  • NeuroStrike: Neuron-Level Attacks on Aligned LLMs

    Wu, L., Behrouzi, S., Rostami, M., Thang, M., Picek, S. & Sadeghi, A.-R., 17 Nov 2025. 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference Paper