About
I am a PhD student advised by
Rohan Padhye and
Vyas Sekar.
I work on building practical debugging and testing tools for heterogeneous cloud applications.
My email address is [email protected].
Publication
The Havoc Paradox in Generator-Based Fuzzing (Registered Report)
Ao Li, Madonna Huang, Caroline Lemieux, Rohan Padhye FUZZING 2024
ExChain: Exception Dependency Analysis for Root Cause Diagnosis
Ao Li, Shan Lu, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye, Vyas Sekar NSDI 2024
Guiding Greybox Fuzzing with Mutation Testing
Vasudev Vikram, Isabella Laybourn, Ao Li, Nicole Nair, Kelton OBrien, Rafaello Sanna, Rohan Padhye ISSTA 2023
Automatic Horizontal Fusion for GPU Kernels
Ao Li, Bojian Zheng, Gennady Pekhimenko, Fan Long CGO 2022
Watching the watchmen: Least privilege for managed network services
Guyue Liu, Ao Li, Christopher Canel, Vyas Sekar HotNets 2021
Securing Smart Contract with Runtime Validation
Ao Li, Jemin Andrew Choi, Fan Long PLDI 2020
Polarimetric Dense Monocular SLAM
Luwei Yang, Feitong Tan, Ao Li, Zhaopeng Cui, Yasutaka Furukawa, Ping Tan CVPR 2018 (oral)
Preprints
SPIDER: A Practical Fuzzing Framework to Uncover Stateful Performance Issues in SDN Controllers
Ao Li, Rohan Padhye, Vyas Sekar
Patent
Augmented Imaging Assistance For Visual Impairment
Anirudh Koul, Ao Li, Elias Haroun, Irene Wen Ling Chen, Shweta Sharma, Christiano Bianchet,
Saqib Shaikh, Stéphane Morichère-Matte, Biing Tsyr Lai, Nathan Pak Kei Lam, Wendy Lu
Managing network configuration through network path analysis
John David Backes,
Samuel Bayless,
Daniel William Dacosta,
Ao Li
Work Experience
Industry
Applied Scientist Intern: Amazon AWS (Summer 2023), Distributed System Testing
Research Intern: Microsoft Research (Summer 2022), Cloud Reliability
Software Engineer Intern: Amazon AWS (Summer 2020), Network Verification
Software Engineer Intern: Google (Summer 2017), Android LLVM Toolchain
Software Engineer Intern: Google (Summer 2016), Gmail iOS Notification
Software Engineer Intern: Microsoft (Spring 2016), Seeing AI
Academic
Teaching Assistant: University of Toronto (Spring 2020), CSC 488
/2107 - Compilers and InterpretersTeaching Assistant: University of Toronto (Winter 2019), CSC 324 - Programming Language
Teaching Assistant: Simon Fraser University (Spring 2018), CMPT 379 - Principles of Compiler Design
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2020-)
M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Toronto (2018-2020)
B.Sc. Computer Science, Simon Fraser University (2015-2018)
B.Eng. Computer Science, Zhejiang University (2013-2018)