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Basics
Name | Zihan (Tomson) Li |
Label | Ph.D Candidate |
tomson.li@tomson.li | |
Url | https://bio.tomson.li |
Summary | Research focus on system security. |
Education
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Aug 2023 - Present St. Louis, MO, USA
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Aug 2020 - Dec 2022 St. Louis, MO, USA
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Aug 2020 - May 2023 St. Louis, MO, USA
Work
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May 2022 - Present -
Jul 2020 - Sept 2020 Backend Development Intern
Youme.im
Developed an end-to-end encryption module for audio and video real-time communication
Awards
- Oct 2022
2022 Dean's Select PhD Fellowship
Washington University in St. Louis
Nominated for the 2022 Dean's Select PhD Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.
Publications
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2025 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, Ning Zhang
2025 62th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
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2025 A Unified Hardware Performance Profiling Infrastructure to Measure and Manage Uncertainty
Ao Li, Marion Sudvarg, Zihan Li, Sanjoy Baruah, Chris Gill, Ning Zhang
19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 25)
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2024.08.14 Your Firmware Has Arrived: A Study of Firmware Update Vulnerabilities
Yuhao Wu, Jinwen Wang, Yujie Wang, Shixuan Zhai, Zihan Li, Yi He, Kun Sun, Qi Li, Ning Zhang
33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24)
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2022.12.05 Work-in-Progress: Measuring Security Protection in Real-time Embedded Firmware
Yuhao Wu, Yujie Wang, Shixuan Zhai, Zihan Li, Ao Li, Jinwen Wang, Ning Zhang
2022 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
Services
Skills
Languages | |
C/C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, VHDL, Assembly, SQL, PHP |
Framework | |
React, Node.js, ROS, ROS2 |
Developer Tools | |
Git, Cmake, Docker, VS Code, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Wireshark, Xcode, Ghidra, Gazebo |
Libaries | |
pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Tkinter, pytorch |
Languages
Mandarin Chinese | |
Native speaker |
English | |
Fluent, Professional proficiency |
Projects
- Jan 2022 - May 2022
RichArduino V4
FPGA microcontroller with RISC-based architecture
- I2C/UART serial communication
- VHDL programming
- PCB design