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General Information

Full Name Adrian Shuai Li
Languages Mandarin, English

Education

  • Expected 2026
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
    • advised by Prof. Elisa Bertino
  • 2020
    M.Sc. in Computer Science
    University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
    • advised by Prof. Rei Safavi-Naini
  • 2017
    BSc. in Computer Science
    Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Research Experience

  • May - Aug 2023
    Research Intern III
    Cisco Research, San Jose, CA, USA
    • hosted by Ashish Kundu and Arun Iyengar
  • May - Aug 2022
    Ph.D. Intern
    Aviatrix Systems, Champaign, IL, USA
    • hosted by Susan Hinrichs and Joshua Juen
  • 2021 - present
    Collaborative Researcher
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
    • collaborated with Mark Wegman and Yuhai Tu
  • 2021 - present
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
    • within the Cyber Space Security Lab (Cyber2Slab) led by Prof. Elisa Bertino
  • Mar - Sep 2020
    Security Research Intern
    TELUS Communications, Calgary, AB, Canada
  • 2017 - 2020
    Graduate Research Assistant
    University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
    • within Institute for Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance (ISPIA) led by Prof. Rei Safavi-Naini
  • SUMMER 2016
    VIsiting Undergraduate Student
    University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
    • part of the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program

Awards and Acknowledgements

  • 2025
    • Internet Society NDSS Fellowship
  • 2024
    • Purdue University Recognition for Excellence in Research
  • 2018
    • Best Paper Award of ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on IoT Security and Privacy (IoT S&P)
  • 2017
    • Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship
  • 2016
    • Wuhan University Academic Excellence Scholarship
    • Wuhan University Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award

Services

  • Reviewer for
    • Journals: WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    • Conferences: IJCNN 2025, ACSAC 2024
  • External reviewer for
    • Conferences: CCS 2025, ESORICS (2025, 2024), ICDE 2024, Globecom 2024, SACMAT (2024, 2022), CODASPY (2024, 2022), ACSAC 2023, IRI 2022.
  • Student volunteer for
    • Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2018)

Organization

  • Conference
    • Local Arrangement Co-Chair for SecRETs2018 (Calgary, May 2018)
  • Student Organization
    • Vice President for Computer Science Graduate Society, University of Calgary (2018-2019)

Invited talks

  • 2023
    Domain Adaptation for Malware Classification Using Graph Neural Networks: Learning Semantic and Structural Features of Control Flow Graphs
    Cisco open mic talks

Teaching

  • Spring 2021
    CS 182: Foundations of Computer Science
    Purdue University
    • teaching assistant
  • Winter 2019
    CPSC 525: Principles of Computer Security
    University of Calgary
    • teaching assistant
  • Fall 2018
    CPSC 530: Information Theory and Security
    University of Calgary
    • teaching assistant
  • Winter 2018
    CPSC 329: Explorations in Information Security and Privacy
    University of Calgary
    • teaching assistant
  • Fall 2017
    CPSC 203: Introduction to Problem Solving using Application Software
    University of Calgary
    • teaching assistant