Tomson Li

Zihan (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.

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

selected publications

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 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025

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@inproceedings{AdaFL_dac25,
  author = {Li, Zihan and Liu, Han and Li, Ao and Chan, Ching-hsiang and Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy and Yeoh, William and Lou, Wenjing and Zhang, Ning},
  title = {Resilient Federated Learning on Embedded Devices with Constrained Network Connectivity},
  booktitle = {2025 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {1--7},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11133269},
  keywords = {Training;Performance evaluation;Adaptation models;Federated learning;Scalability;Bandwidth;Robustness;Hardware;Testing;Resilience},
  doi = {10.1109/DAC63849.2025.11133269},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

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), Jul 2025

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@inproceedings{tintin_osdi25,
  title = {A Unified Hardware Performance Profiling Infrastructure to Measure and Manage Uncertainty},
  author = {Li, Ao and Sudvarg, Marion and Li, Zihan and Baruah, Sanjoy and Gill, Chris and Zhang, Ning},
  booktitle = {19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 25)},
  pages = {575--593},
  isbn = {978-1-939133-47-2},
  address = {Boston, MA},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/li},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  month = jul,
}

RTAS

Balancing Security and Schedulability: WCET Evaluation and Security Optimization in CPS

Zihan Li, Marion Sudvarg, Ching-Hsiang Chan, Ryan Burrow, Nathan Burow, Cailani Lemieux-Mack, Sanjoy Baruah, Ning Zhang, and Bryan Ward

In 2026 IEEE 32nd Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) To Appear, Jul 2026

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