Hi, this is Ying Li. I’m a 2nd-year Ph.D. Student in the ECE department at UCLA, working with Prof. Yuan Tian.

I am broadly interested in real-world computer security and privacy topics, including LLM for security, automated reasoning, etc.

I received my Bachelor’s degree from Sichuan University(SCU), and after that, I studied at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(UCAS). I was also a research Assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK).

🔥 News

2025.01: I will be an Applied Scientist Intern in AWS proactive security group this Summer, see you in New York!
2024.06: I will serve as an AEC member for PoPETS 2025.
2024.05: I received Summer School on Formal Techniques Travel Grant
2024.04: I will serve as an AEC member for CCS 2024.
2024.01: I received OpenAI Researcher Access Program Credit.

📝 Publications

SoK: Towards Effective Automated Vulnerability Repair. Ying Li, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Bomin Wei, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian (Accepted in Usenix Security 2025)
CarpetFuzz: Automatic Program Option Constraint Extraction from Documentation for Fuzzing. Dawei Wang, Ying Li, Zhiyu Zhang, Kai Chen (Usenix Security 2023) [PDF] [Code]
Clues in Tweets: Twitter-Guided Discovery and Analysis of SMS Spam. Siyuan Tang, Xianghang Mi, Ying Li, Xiaofeng Wang, Kai Chen (CCS 2022)[PDF] [Code]
Detecting and Understanding the Promotion of Illicit Goods and Services on Twitter. Hongyu Wang^*, Ying Li^*, Ronghong Huang, Xianghang Mi. (Accepted in WWW 2025)
See more in Google Scholar

🎖 Honors and Awards

2024.02 Student Travel Grant, NDSS 2024
2024.01 OpenAI Researcher Access Program, OpenAI 2024
2023.10 Student Mentee, ACM CCS 2023
2021.06 Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Sichuan Province
2020.05 Good Future Scholarship, Sichuan University (1/126)
2018.12 Cybersecurity Merit Student Scholarship

📖 Educations

2023.09 - present, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
2021.09 - 2023.04, Institue of Information and Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2017.09 - 2021.06, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China.
2019.07 - 2019.08, Summer School in CS, National University of Singapore.

💻 Experience

2023.06 - 2023.09, Research Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

🏃‍♀️Services

Committee(Reviewers)

Program Committee: NeurIPs 2025
Junior Program Committee: MSR 2025
Artifact Evaluation Program Committee: ACM CCS’23, ISSTA’24, ACM CCS’24, PoPETS’25

External Reviewer

2025, Security & Privacy
2024, Usenix Security

Leadership & Activities

2024, Organizer for UCLA Los Angeles Computing Circle(LACC)

🥰Personal

I love to go traveling🏖, hiking, long-distance running🏃‍♀️, and experience any exciting activities(e.g., bungee jumping, skydiving🪂) in my spare time.