B.S. in Information and Computing Science, Northeastern University, 2012-2016.
Ph.D. in Cyberspace Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016-2021.
Postdoc in Applied Mathematics, Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, 2021-Present.
Research Interests
Automatic cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives
Privacy-preserving computation
Post-quantum cryptography
Publications
Yingjie Zhang, Siwei Sun, Jiahao Cai, Lei Hu. Speeding up MILP Aided Differential Characteristic Search with Matsui’s Strategy. ISC, 2018: 101-115. pdf
Jiahao Cai, Zihao Wei, Yingjie Zhang, Siwei Sun, Lei Hu. Zero-sum Distinguishers for Round-reduced GIMLI Permutation. ICISSP, 2019: 38-43. pdf
Dhiman Saha, Yu Sasaki, Danping Shi, Ferdinand Sibleyras, Siwei Sun, Yingjie Zhang. On the Security Margin of TinyJAMBU with Refined Differential and Linear Cryptanalysis. IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2020(3): 152-174. pdf
Yingjie Zhang, Lei Hu, Danping Shi, Peng Wang, Siwei Sun, Rong Wei. Improved Fast Correlation Attack on Grain-v1. Journal of Cryptologic Research, 2020, 7(6): 812-825. url
Qidi You, Xuan Zhou, Shun Li, Yingjie Zhang. Upper Bounds of Differential Branch Number of n-bit Permutations. Journal of Cryptologic Research, 2020, 7(6): 789-798. url
Zihao Wei, Yingjie Zhang, Lei Hu, Siwei Sun, Danping Shi. A Compact Hardware implementation of S-box for Camellia. Journal of Cryptologic Research, 2021, 8(5): 844-855. url
Yingjie Zhang, Lijun Lyu, Kexin Qiao, Zhiyu Zhang, Siwei Sun, Lei Hu. Automatic Key Recovery of Feistel Ciphers: Application to SIMON and SIMECK. ISPEC, 2021: 147–167. pdf
Lijun Lyu, Yi Tu, Yingjie Zhang. Improving the Deep-Learning-Based Differential Distinguisher and Applications to Simeck. CSCWD, 2022: 465-470. url
Teaching Assistant
Mathematical Foundation of Information Security, Prof. Lei Hu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Autumn 2019/2020.
Algebraic Geometry Codes and Huawei’s 8th Problem, Prof. Chuangqiang Hu, Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Autumn 2021.
Fundings
Research on Practical Symmetric-key Algorithms for Privacy Computing (Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation, Grant No. 2022-ZZ-070).