I am a Display EE Architect at Apple. I mainly work in the iconic Ring building.

Job description: research & development of display architecture across panel, module, silicon, and compensation algorithms for next generation game-changing Apple products.

Team’s past projects: iPhone 15 Pro (iPhone with thinest bezzel), iPhone 14 Pro (first iPhone with Always-on display), iPhone 13 Pro (first ProMotion iPhone), Apple Watch series 1, iPhone X (first OLED iPhone), iPhone 7, iPhone 6, iPhone 5. We continue to incubate new product ideas to bring surprise and the best user experience to our customers.

I got my Ph.D. and M.S. degree at MIT EECS under the supervision of Professor Anantha Chandrakasan and Professor Hae-Seung Lee. Professor Song Han was one of my thesis committee member. I worked in machine learning attacks for hardware security and machine learning accelerators with a proven record of leading publications such as VLSI-C 2022 and MobiCOM 2020.

Before joining MIT, I received a bachelor’s degree in EECS from Peking University in 2019 with National Scholarship (1%).

You can access my curriculum vitae here.

Last updated: 12/02/2023

Service for mixed-signal hardware security and underrepresented groups

I commit 1~2 hours every week to provide guidance, suggestions, and/or mentorships for students interested in exploring the side-channel security of mixed-signal hardware and also students from underrepresented groups. Please fill in this form if you are interested.

For detailed information and future directions about the secure ADC project, please refer to my PhD thesis for more information. Background is described in session 2.2.2 and previous work is summarized in 2.4. Measurement setup is described in session 4.5, 4.6, 5.5 and 5.6. Future directions are discussed in session 6.2.

News

Dec. 2023 Invited Talk at Peking University: Hardware Security in AI Era
Jun. 2023 A wonderful journey started @Apple XD
May. 2023 I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis!
Feb. 2023 Sniff-SAR is accepted to CICC 2023!
Jun. 2022. MIT NEWS has an article to highlight our research!
May. 2022. Direct HESE SAR is accepted to ISLPED 2022.
Mar. 2022. RaM-SAR is accepted to VLSI-C 2022!
Sep. 2020. Our paper is accepted to MobiCOM 2020!

Publications

Sniff-SAR: A 9.8fJ/c.-s 12b secure ADC with detection-driven protection against power and EM side-channel attack

Ruicong Chen, Anantha Chandrakasan, Hae-Seung Lee
The 2023 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), April 2023 [paper]

RaM-SAR: A Low Energy and Area Overhead, 11.3fJ/conv.-step 12b 25MS/s Secure Random-Mapping SAR ADC with Power and EM Side-Channel Attack Resilience

Ruicong Chen, Hanrui Wang, Anantha Chandrakasan, Hae-Seung Lee
The 2022 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-C), June 2022. [paper]

A Bit-level Sparsity-aware SAR ADC with Direct Hybrid Encoding for Signed Expressions for AIoT Applications

Ruicong Chen, H. T. Kung, Anantha Chandrakasan, Hae-Seung Lee
The 2022 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), August 2022. [paper]

Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants for Cross-Tissue Wireless and Batteryless Connectivity

Mohammed Radewan Abdelhamid, Ruicong Chen, Jongyuk Cho, Anantha Chandrakasan, Fadel Adib
The 2020 Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 2020.
[paper] [website]

Physics Olympiad

1st Prize, 33th Chinese National Physics Competition of Undergrad 2016
Bronze medal, 31th Chinese National Physics Olympiad
Gold medal, Pan-Pearl River Delta and Chinese Elite Schools Physics Olympiad

Honors and Awards

2021 MIT EECS Commlab Fellowship
2019 Outstanding Graduate in Beijing
2019 Outstanding Graduate of Peking University
2017 China National Scholarship (1%)

Services

Active reviewers of ISCAS, T-CAS I, T-CAS II, TVLSI, IEEE Access, and OJCAS
Circuit Session Chair of MIT MTL Annual Research Conference (MARC) 2022