publications

2025

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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   @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 62th 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},
   }

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), 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,
   }

2024

1. USENIX

   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, and Ning Zhang

   In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Aug 2024

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   @inproceedings{firmware_usenix24,
     author = {Wu, Yuhao and Wang, Jinwen and Wang, Yujie and Zhai, Shixuan and Li, Zihan and He, Yi and Sun, Kun and Li, Qi and Zhang, Ning},
     title = {Your Firmware Has Arrived: A Study of Firmware Update Vulnerabilities},
     booktitle = {33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24)},
     year = {2024},
     isbn = {978-1-939133-44-1},
     address = {Philadelphia, PA},
     pages = {5627--5644},
     url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/wu-yuhao},
     publisher = {USENIX Association},
     month = aug,
   }

2022

1. RTSS

   Work-in-Progress: Measuring Security Protection in Real-time Embedded Firmware

   Yuhao Wu, Yujie Wang, Shixuan Zhai, Zihan Li, Ao Li, Jinwen Wang, and Ning Zhang

   In 2022 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Dec 2022

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   @inproceedings{wip_rtss22,
     author = {Wu, Yuhao and Wang, Yujie and Zhai, Shixuan and Li, Zihan and Li, Ao and Wang, Jinwen and Zhang, Ning},
     booktitle = {2022 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)},
     title = {Work-in-Progress: Measuring Security Protection in Real-time Embedded Firmware},
     year = {2022},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {495-498},
     keywords = {Bridges;Embedded systems;Scheduling algorithms;Ecosystems;Cyber-physical systems;Real-time systems;Security},
     doi = {10.1109/RTSS55097.2022.00050},
     month = dec,
   }