Yuan Li

Research Interests

Software Security; System Security; hardware Security;

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Publications

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• [DAC'26] Thrend: Mitigating Counting Thread-based Fine-grained Timing on Arm and Apple CPUs
  Chang Liu, Shuaihu Feng, Jiaqi Cui, Hongpei Zheng, Aodong Cui, Jian Dong, Yuan Li*, Trevor E. Carlson, Dongsheng Wang.

• [NDSS'26] SoK: Take a Deep Step into Linux Kernel Hardening Effectiveness from the Offensive-Defensive Perspective
  Yinhao Hu, Pengyu Ding, Zhenpeng Lin, Dongliang Mu*, Yuan Li*.

• [NDSS'26] LatticeBox: A Hardware-Software Co-Designed Framework for Scalable and Low-Latency Compartmentalization
  Zhanpeng Liu, Chenyang Li, Wende Tan, Yuan Li*, Xinhui Han*, Xi Cao, Yong Xie, Chao Zhang.

• [DAC '25] HoBBy: Hardening Unbalanced Branches against Control Flow Attacks on Intel SGX and AMD SEV
  Chang Liu, Shuaihu Feng, Yuan Li*, Dongsheng Wang,Trevor Erik Carlson.

• [ASPLOS '25] MDPeek: Breaking Balanced Branches in SGX with Memory Disambiguation Unit Side Channels
  Chang Liu, Shuaihu Feng, Yuan Li*, Dongsheng Wang, Wenjian He, Yongqiang Lyu, Trevor Erik Carlson.

• [NDSS'25] CCTAG: Configurable and Combinable Tagged Architecture
  Zhanpeng Liu, Yi Rong, Chenyang Li, Wende Tan, Yuan Li*, Xinhui Han*, Songtao Yang, Chao Zhang

• [NDSS'25] VulShield: Protecting Vulnerable Code Before Deploying Patches
  Yuan Li, Chao Zhang*, Jinhao Zhu, Penghui Li, Chenyang Li, Songtao Yang, Wende Tan

• [IEEE TC'24] ROLoad-PMP: Securing Sensitive Operations for Kernels and Bare-Metal Firmware
  Wende Tan, Chenyang Li, Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li*, Chao Zhang*, Jianping Wu

• [NDSS'24] EnclaveFuzz: Finding Vulnerabilities in SGX Applications
  Liheng Chen, Zheming Li, Zheyu Ma, Yuan Li, Baojian Chen, Chao Zhang*

• [Usenix Security'23] MTSan: A Feasible and Practical Memory Sanitizer for Fuzzing COTS Binaries
  Xingman Chen, Yinghao Shi, Zheyu Jiang, Yuan Li, Ruoyu Wang, Haixin Duan, Haoyu Wang, Chao Zhang*

• [DAC'23] PTStore: Lightweight Architectural Support for Page Table Isolation
  Wende Tan, Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu, Yu Ding, and Chao Zhang*

• [ACM CCS’22] PACMem: Enforcing Spatial and Temporal Memory Safety via ARM Pointer Authentication
  Yuan Li, Wende Tan, Zhizheng Lv, Songtao Yang, Mathias Payer, Ying Liu, Chao Zhang*

• [DAC’21] ROLoad: Securing Sensitive Operations with Pointee Integrity
  Wende Tan, Yuan Li, Chao Zhang*, Xingman Chen, Songtao Yang, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu

• [ACM CCS’20] Finding Cracks in Shields: On the Security of Control Flow Integrity Mechanisms
  Yuan Li, Mingzhe Wang, Chao Zhang*, Xingman Chen, Songtao Yang, Ying Liu

• [SysTEX'17] vCFI: Visible Control Flow Integrity for Cloud Tenants
  Yuan Li, Chao Zhang*, and Xiapu Luo

Academic Services

Reviewer/PC

• 2027: ICSE, TIFS

• 2026: ICSE

• 2025: Cybersecurity

Artifact Evaluation Committee

• 2022: USENIX OSDI,USENIX ATC