Zihao Zhan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University. He completed his postdoctoral research in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Florida from 2021 to 2024. He received his Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University in 2021, advised by Prof. Zhenkai Zhang and Prof. Xenofon Koutsoukos. He earned his B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2016. His research interest is on system security, side-channel security, microarchitectural security and hardware security.