Ao Li

I am a PhD student advised by Rohan Padhye and Vyas Sekar. 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

Research Intern: Microsoft Research (Summer 2022), Cloud Reliability

Software Engineer Intern: Amazon (Summer 2020), AWS Automated Reasoning Group

Software Engineer Intern: Google (Summer 2017), Andoird LLVM Toolchain

Software Engineer Intern: Google (Summer 2016), Gmail iOS Notifiction

Software Engineer Intern: Microsoft (Spring 2016), Seeing AI

Academic

Teaching Assistant: University of Toronto (Spring 2020), CSC 488/2107 - Compilers and Interpreters

Teaching 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)