Zhixin Pan, Ph.D.

Zhixin Pan headshot
Associate Professor
Office
CAPS Building, Room 0371
Educational History
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Florida, 2022
M.S., Computer Science, University of Florida, 2017
B.E., Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015
Research Interests
Explainable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cybersecurity and Machine Learning Privacy
Quantum Computation and Information Security
Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
System-on-Chip (SoC) design for trustworthy
Publications

Zhixin Pan and Prabhat Mishra. “TD-Zero: Automatic Golden-Free Hardware Trojan Detection using Zero-Shot Learning”. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024.

Zhixin Pan and Prabhat Mishra. “AI Trojan Attack for Evading Machine Learning-based Detection of Hardware Trojans”. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023.

Daniel Volya, Zhixin Pan and Prabhat Mishra. "Feedback-based Steering for Quantum State Preparation." IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). Bellevue, Washington, September 17-22, 2023.

Zhixin Pan, Jennifer Sheldon and Prabhat Mishra. "Hardware-Assisted Malware Detection and Localization using Explainable Machine Learning." IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2022.

Zhixin Pan, and Prabhat Mishra. "Survey on Hardware Vulnerability Analysis using Machine Learning." IEEE Access, 2022.

Zhixin Pan and Prabhat Mishra. “Backdoor Attacks on Bayesian Neural Networks”. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021.

Baba C. Vemuri and Zhixin Pan. “A geometric framework for ensemble average propagator reconstruction from diffusion MRI”. Medical Image Anal. 57 (2019), pp. 89–105.