Tomson Li

Ph.D Candidate @ WashU.

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Zihan (Tomson) Li

tomson.li@tomson.li


St. Louis,

Missouri

Tomson is a PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. He is advised by Prof. Ning Zhang as a member of the Computer Security & Privacy Laboratory. His research focuses on system security, cyber-physical systems, and machine learning systems.

He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s degree in Cybersecurity Engineering from WashU in 2023.

selected publications

  1. DAC
    Resilient Federated Learning on Embedded Devices with Constrained Network Connectivity
    Zihan Li, Han Liu, Ao Li, Ching-hsiang Chan, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, William Yeoh, Wenjing Lou, and Ning Zhang
    In 2025 62th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025
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  2. OSDI
    A Unified Hardware Performance Profiling Infrastructure to Measure and Manage Uncertainty
    Ao Li, Marion Sudvarg, Zihan Li, Sanjoy Baruah, Chris Gill, and Ning Zhang
    In 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 25), 2025