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I am a tenure-track associate professor at the School of Cyber Science and Technology of Beihang University. My current research interests include applied cryptography, domain-specific accelerators, and AI security.

I was an assistant professor at Kyoto University from 2019 to 2021. I received Ph.D. and M.Sc in Informatics from Kyoto University in 2019 and 2017, respectively. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.Sc in Computer Engineering in 2014.


Selected Publications

Libra: Pattern-Scheduling Co-Optimization for Cross-Scheme FHE Code Generation over GPGPU
Song Bian, Yintai Sun, Zian Zhao, Haowen Pan, Mingzhe Zhang, Zhenyu Guan USENIX Security Symposium, August 2026 (to appear)
High-Precision Functional Bootstrapping for CKKS from Fourier Extension
Song Bian, Yunhao Fu, Ruiyu Shen, Haowen Pan, Anyu Wang, Zhenyu Guan EUROCRYPT, May 2026 (to appear)
Kangaroo: A Private and Amortized Inference Framework over WAN for Large-Scale Decision Tree Evaluation
Wei Xu, Hui Zhu, Yandong Zheng, Song Bian, Ning Sun, Hao Yuan, Dengguo Feng, Hui Li Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2026
cwPSU: Efficient Unbalanced Private Set Union via Constant-weight Codes
Qingwen Li, Song Bian, Hui Li Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2026
TensorFHE+: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Acceleration based on Linear Algebra
Yintai Sun, Shengyu Fan, Zhenhua Yin, Xinkai Song, Xing Hu, Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Weizhi Xu, Rui Hou, Dan Meng, Song Bian, Mingzhe Zhang IEEE Transactions on Computers, November 2025
Engorgio: An Arbitrary-Precision Unbounded-Size Hybrid Encrypted Database via Quantized Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Song Bian, Haowen Pan, Jiaqi Hu, Zhou Zhang, Yunhao Fu, Jiafeng Hua, Yi Chen, Bo Zhang, Yier Jin, Jin Dong, and Zhenyu Guan USENIX Security Symposium, August 2025
Presto: A Unified RISC-V-Compatible SoC for Multi-Scheme FHE Acceleration over Module Lattice
Luchang Lei, Yu Duan, Cheng Peng, Yongqing Zhu, Gangfeng Du, Zhenyu Guan, Huazhong Yang, Yongpan Liu, Zhen Gu, Song Bian, Hongyang Jia IEEE Hot Chips 37 Symposium (HCS), August 2025
Enabling Energy-Efficient Homomorphic Encryption Evaluation via eDRAM-Based In-Situ Computing in an Edge Processor
Luchang Lei, Yongqing Zhu, Xinhang Zou, Zhou Zhang, Zian Zhao, Yifan He, Gangfeng Du, Zhenyu Guan, Huazhong Yang, Yongpan Liu, Song Bian, Hongyang Jia IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), July 2025
CHLOE: Loop Transformation over Fully Homomorphic Encryption via Multi-Level Vectorization and Control-Path Reduction
Song Bian, Zian Zhao, Ruiyu Shen, Zhou Zhang, Ran Mao, Dawei Li, Yizhong Liu, Masaki Waga, Kohei Suenaga, Zhenyu Guan, Jiafeng Hua, Yier Jin, and Jianwei Liu IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2025
FHECAP: An Encrypted Control System With Piecewise Continuous Actuation
Song Bian, Yunhao Fu, Dong Zhao, Haowen Pan, Yuexiang Jin, Jiayue Sun, Hui Qiao, Zhenyu Guan IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), April 2025
ArcEDB: An Arbitrary-Precision Encrypted Database via (Amortized) Modular Homomorphic Encryption
Zhou Zhang, Song Bian, Zian Zhao, Ran Mao, Haoyi Zhou, Jiafeng Hua, Yier Jin, and Zhenyu Guan ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2024
An eDRAM-Based In-Situ-Computing Processor for Homomorphic Encryption Evaluation on the Edge
Luchang Lei, Yongqing Zhu, Xinhang Zou, Yifan He, Zhou Zhang, Zhenyu Guan, Huazhong Yang, Yongpan Liu, Song Bian, and Hongyang Jia European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC), September 2024
PPGNN: Fast and Accurate Privacy-Preserving Graph Neural Network Inference via Parallel and Pipelined Arithmetic-and-Logic FHE Accelerator
Yuntao Wei, Xueyan Wang, Song Bian, Yicheng Huang, Weisheng Zhao, and Yier Jin ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2024
Alchemist: A Unified Accelerator Architecture for Cross-Scheme Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Jianan Mu, Husheng Han, Shangyi Shi, Jing Ye, Zizhen Liu, Shengwen Liang, Meng Li, Mingzhe Zhang, Song Bian, Xing Hu, Huawei Li, Xiaowei Li ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2024
ESC-NTT: An Elastic, Seamless and Compact Architecture for Multi-Parameter NTT Acceleration
Zhenyu Guan, Yongqing Zhu, Yicheng Huang, Luchang Lei, Xueyan Wang, Hongyang Jia, Yi Chen, Bo Zhang, Jin Dong, Song Bian Proc. of Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), March 2024
HEIR: A Unified Representation for Cross-Scheme Compilation of Fully Homomorphic Computation
Song Bian, Zian Zhao, Zhou Zhang, Ran Mao, Kohei Suenaga, Yier Jin, Zhenyu Guan, and Jianwei Liu Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2024
AutoHoG: Automating Homomorphic Gate Design for Large-Scale Logic Circuit Evaluation
Zhenyu Guan, Ran Mao, Qianyun Zhang, Zhou Zhang, Zian Zhao, and Song Bian IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, January 2024
HE3DB: An Efficient and Elastic Encrypted Database Via Arithmetic-And-Logic Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Song Bian, Zhou Zhang, Haowen Pan, Ran Mao, Zian Zhao, Yier Jin, and Zhenyu Guan ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2023
THE-V: Verifiable Privacy-Preserving Neural Network via Trusted Homomorphic Execution
Yuntao Wei, Xueyan Wang, Song Bian, Weisheng Zhao, and Yier Jin IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), October 2023
HEDA: Multi-Attribute Unbounded Aggregation over Homomorphically Encrypted Database
Xuanle Ren, Le Su, Zhen Gu, Sheng Wang, Feifei Li, Yuan Xie, Song Bian, Chao Li, and Fan Zhang International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 2023
PIMA-LPN: Processing-in-memory Acceleration for Efficient LPN-based Post-Quantum Cryptography
Lin Ding, Song Bian, and Jiliang Zhang ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2023
Oblivious Online Monitoring for Safety LTL Specification via Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Ryotaro Banno, Kotaro Matsuoka, Naoki Matsumoto, Song Bian, Masaki Waga, and Kohei Suenaga Computer Aided Verification (CAV), August 2022
VisualNet: An End-to-End Human Visual System Inspired Framework to Reduce Inference Latency of Deep Neural Networks
Tianchen Wang, Jiawei Zhang, Jinjun Xiong, Song Bian, Zheyu Yan, Meiping Huang, Jian Zhuang, Takashi Sato, Yiyu Shi, and Xiaowei Xu IEEE Transactions on Computers, July 2022
Efficient Analysis for Mitigation of Workload-dependent Aging Degradation
Shumpei Morita, Song Bian, Michihiro Shintani, and Takashi Sato IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, February 2022
AxRLWE: A Multi-level Approximate Ring-LWE Co-processor for Lightweight IoT Applications
Dur E Shahwar Kundi, Ayesha Khalid, Song Bian, Chenghua Wang, Maire O'Neill, and Weiqiang Liu IEEE Internet of Things Journal, October 2021
APAS: Application-specific accelerators for RLWE-based homomorphic linear transformations
Song Bian, Dur E Shahwar Kundi, Kazuma Hirozawa, Weiqiang Liu, and Takashi Sato IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, September 2021
Virtual Secure Platform: A Five-Stage Pipeline Processor over TFHE
Kotaro Matsuoka, Ryotaro Banno, Naoki Matsumoto, Takashi Sato, and Song Bian USENIX Security Symposium, August 2021
Privacy-Preserving Medical Image Segmentation via Hybrid Trusted Execution Environment
Song Bian, Weiwen Jiang, and Takashi Sato ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2021
Clonable PUF: on the Design of PUFs That Share Equivalent Responses
Takashi Sato, Yuki Tanaka, Song Bian Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2021
Automatic Parallelism Tuning for Module Learning with Errors Based Post-Quantum Key Exchanges on GPUs
Tatsuki Ono, Song Bian, Takashi Sato Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2021
AutoPrivacy: Automated Layer-wise Parameter Selection for Secure Neural Network Inference
Qian Lou, Song Bian, and Lei Jiang Conference on Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS), December 2020
BUNET: Blind Medical Image Segmentation Based on Secure UNET
Song Bian, Xiaowei Xu, Weiwen Jiang, Yiyu Shi, and Takashi Sato International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), October 2020
NASS: Optimizing Secure Inference via Neural Architecture Search
Song Bian, Weiwen Jiang, Qing Lu, Yiyu Shi, and Takashi Sato European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), June 2020
ENSEI: Efficient Secure Inference via Frequency-Domain Homomorphic Convolution for Privacy-Preserving Visual Recognition
Song Bian, Tianchen Wang, Masayuki Hiromoto, Yiyu Shi, and Takashi Sato Proc. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2020
AxMM: Area and Power Efficient Approximate Modulo Multiplier for R-LWE Cryptosystem
Dur E Shahwar Kundi, Song Bian, Ayesha Khalid, Chenghua Wang, Maire O'Neill, and Weiqiang Liu Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2020
Filianore: Better Multiplier Architectures for LWE-based Post-Quantum Key Exchange
Song Bian, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2019
DArL: Dynamic Parameter Adjustment for LWE-based Secure Inference
Song Bian, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), March 2019
Towards Practical Homomorphic Email Filtering: A Hardware-Accelerated Secure Naive Bayesian Filter
Song Bian, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), January 2019
DWE: Decrypting Learning with Errors with Errors
Song Bian, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2018
Coin Flipping PUF: A Novel PUF with Improved Resistance against Machine Learning Attacks
Yuki Tanaka, Song Bian, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, May 2018
LSTA: Learning-Based Static Timing Analysis for High-Dimensional Correlated On-Chip Variations
Song Bian, Michihiro Shintani, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2017
SCAM: Secured Content Addressable Memory Based on Homomorphic Encryption
Song Bian, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), March 2017
Runtime NBTI Mitigation for Processor Lifespan Extension via Selective Node Control
Song Bian, Michihiro Shintani, Zheng Wang, Masayuki Hiromoto, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Takashi Sato Proc. of IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS), November 2016
Workload-Aware Worst Path Analysis of Processor-Scale NBTI Degradation
Song Bian, Michihiro Shintani, Shumpei Morita, Hiromitsu Awano, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), May 2016
Nonlinear Delay-Table Approach for Full-Chip NBTI Degradation Prediction
Song Bian, Michihiro Shintani, Shumpei Morita, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato Proc. of International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), March 2016
Mitigation of NBTI-induced Timing Degradation in Processor
Song Bian, Michihiro Shintani, Zheng Wang, Masayuki Hiromoto, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Takashi Sato Proc. of ACM International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems (TAU), March 2016