主要研究方向是计算机体系结构、硬件加速、通用处理器芯片安全。2023年入选国家级青年人才项目。

在体系结构和安全领域会议和期刊HPCA、MICRO、ASPLOS、IEEE TC/TCAD/TPDS、S&P、EuroSys等发表论文20余篇，其中CCF A类16篇，曾获得IEEE TC/TPDS期刊亮点论文、APPT 2021最佳论文奖。作为项目负责人，参与承担中国科学院战略B类战略先导项目和国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目，作为课题负责人，参与承担国家重点研发计划项目和国家重大科研仪器研制项目。

受邀担任体系结构领域国际知名学术期刊 IEEE TC/TDSC、ACM TACO等审稿人，担任《信息安全学报》学术期刊青年编委。

拟招计算机体系结构、网络空间安全等方向的博士生、硕士生。

招生方向：机密计算硬件加速、通用处理器芯片安全。

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081201-计算机系统结构
083900-网络空间安全

2025年11月-至今，中国科学院信息工程研究所，网络空间安全防御全国重点实验室，研究员

2021年12月-2025年10，中国科学院信息工程研究所，网络空间安全防御全国重点实验室，预聘副高、副研究员

（1）Yuhui Zhang, Guang Yan, Xin Zhang, Zimu Guo, Lutan Zhao*, Jiangfeng Cao, Dan Meng, Rui Hou*. SwiftFL: Enabling Speculative Training for On-Device Federated Deep Learning.  the EuroSys 2026. (CCF A类, Accepted)

（2）Zhiwei Wang, Haoqi He, Lutan Zhao*, Qingyun Niu, Dan Meng, Rui Hou*. Maverick: Rethinking TFHE Bootstrapping on GPUs via Algorithm-Hardware Co-design.  the ACM International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2026). (CCF A类, Accepted)

（3）Qingyun Niu, Lutan Zhao*, Ming Cai, Kai Li, Dan Meng, Rui Hou*. UniFHE: Faster Accelerator for FHE with Diverse Algebraic Structure and Balanced Memory System.  IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-32), 2026.

（4）Haoqi He, Zhiwei Wang, Lutan Zhao, Dian Jiao, Dan Meng, Rui Hou. Peregrine: Accelerating TFHE Bootstrapping on GPUs via Multi-Level External Product Co-Design.  IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-32), 2026.

（5）Zhiwei Wang, Haoqi He, Lutan Zhao, Peinan Li, Zhihao Li, Dan Meng, Rui Hou. Chameleon: An Efficient FHE Scheme Switching Acceleration on GPUs.  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025. (CCF A类, Featured Article in November 2025 Issue)

（6）Zihan Wang, Ming Luo, Lutan Zhao*, Zhiwei Wang, Haoqi He, Wenzhe Lv, Xuan Ding, Dan Meng, Rui Hou*. ShiftPIR: An Efficient PIR System with Gravity Shifting from Client to Server. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS),  2025. (CCF A类)

（7）Yuhui Zhang, Hong Liao, Lutan Zhao*, Yuncong Shao, Zhihong Tian, Xiaofeng Wang, Dan Meng, Rui Hou. An Efficient Speculative Federated Tree Learning System with a Lightweight NN-Based Predictor. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025. (CCF A类)

（8）Guang Yan, Yuhui Zhang, Zimu Guo, Lutan Zhao, Xiaojun Chen, Chen Wang, Wenhao Wang, Dan Meng, Rui Hou. Comet: Accelerating Private Inference for Large Language Model by Predicting Activation Sparsity. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) , 2025. (CCF A类)

（9）Zhengbang Yang, Lutan Zhao*, Peinan Li, Han Liu, Kai Li, Dan Meng, Rui Hou*. LegoZK: A Dynamically Reconfigurable Accelerator for Zero-Knowledge Proof. IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-31), 2025. (CCF A类)

（10）Yunkai Bai, Peinan Li, Yubiao Huang, Michael Huang, Shijun Zhao, Lutan Zhao, Fengwei Zhang, Dan Meng, Rui Hou. HyperTEE: a Decoupled TEE Architecture With Secure Enclave Management. The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2024. (CCF A类)

（11）Yuhui Zhang, Lutan Zhao*, Cheng Che, XiaoFeng Wang, Dan Meng, Rui Hou*. SpecFL an Efficient Speculative Federated Learning System for Tree Based Model Training. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2024. (CCF A类)

（12）Yifan Zhu, Peinan Li, Lutan Zhao, Dan Meng, Rui Hou. ChaosINTC: A Secure Interrupt Management Mechanism against Interrupt Based Attacks on TEE. The 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC-60), 2023. (CCF A类)

（13）Fengkai Yuan, Kai Wang, Jiameng Ying, Rui Hou, Lutan Zhao, Peinan Li, Yifan Zhu, Zhenzhou Ji, Dan Meng. Architecting the Auto Cuckoo Filter to Defend Against Cross Core Cache Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2022. (CCF A类)

（14）Peinan Li, Rui Hou, Lutan Zhao, Yifan Zhu, Dan Meng. Conditional Address Propagation: An Efficient Defense Mechanism against Transient Execution Attacks. The 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC-59), 2022. (CCF A类)

（15）Lutan Zhao, Peinan Li, Rui Hou, Michael Huang, Xuehai Qian, Lixin Zhang, Dan Meng. HyBP Hybrid Isolation Randomization Secure Branch Predictor. IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-28), 2022. (CCF A类)

（16）Lutan Zhao, Rui Hou, Kai Wang, Yulan Su, Peinan Li, Dan Meng. A Novel Probabilistic Saturating Counter Design for Secure Branch Predictor. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), APPT 2021 Best Paper Award, 2021. 

（17）Lutan Zhao, Peinan Li, Rui Hou, Michael C. Huang, Jiazhen Li, Lixin Zhang, Xuehai Qian, Dan Meng. A Lightweight Isolation Mechanism for Secure Branch Predictors. The 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC-58), 2021. (CCF A类)

（18）Lutan Zhao, Peinan Li, Rui Hou, Michael C. Huang, Peng Liu, Lixin Zhang, Dan Meng. Exploiting Security Dependence for Conditional Speculation against Spectre Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2020. (CCF A类， Featured paper in July 2020 Issue)

（19）Peinan Li, Lutan Zhao, Rui Hou, Lixin Zhang, Dan Meng. Conditional Speculation: An Effective Approach to Safeguard Out-of-Order Execution Against Spectre Attacks. IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-25), 2019. (CCF A类)