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Mr Yuekang Li

Mr Yuekang Li

Lecturer
Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering

Yuekang Li joins UNSW from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he worked in the Continental-NTU cooperate lab as a Research Assistant Professor. He obtained his Ph.D. degree and bachelor’s degree in 2020 and 2016 from NTU respectively.
 
Yuekang’s research interests lie in various software engineering topics. In particular, he has been focusing on software testing/quality assurance techniques. He is passionate about applying testing techniques to different scenarios and solving some fundamental problems in dynamic program analysis.
E-mail
yuekang.li@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Computer Science and Engineering Room 501-G, K17 Building UNSW Kensington Campus
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Li N; Li Y; Liu Y; Shi L; Wang K; Wang H, 2024, 'Drowzee: Metamorphic Testing for Fact-Conflicting Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models', Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3689776
    Journal articles | 2024
    Zhang X; Zhang C; Li X; Du Z; Mao B; Li Y; Zheng Y; Li Y; Pan L; Liu Y; Deng R, 2024, 'A Survey of Protocol Fuzzing', ACM Computing Surveys, 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3696788
    Journal articles | 2022
    Li S; Xie X; Lin Y; Li Y; Feng R; Li X; Ge W; Dong JS, 2022, 'Deep Learning for Coverage-Guided Fuzzing: How Far are We?', IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2022.3200525
    Journal articles | 2022
    Wei X; Xiao M; Wang B; Wang C; Li Y; Dou J; Cui Z; Dou J; Wang H; Ma S; Zhu C; Yuan G; Yang N; Song T; Zhou H; Chen H; Bai Y; Chen Q, 2022, 'Avoiding Structural Collapse to Reduce Lead Leakage in Perovskite Photovoltaics', ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202204314
    Journal articles | 2022
    Yao S; Chen C; Chen Q; Zhang J; Li Y; Zeng Y, 2022, 'An integrated hydrodynamic and multicriteria evaluation Cellular Automata-Markov model to assess the effects of a water resource project on waterbird habitat in wetlands', JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY, 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127561
    Journal articles | 2020
    Li Y; Zhou X; Chen J; Guo W; He S; Gao S; Peng P, 2020, 'Laser-Patterned Copper Electrodes for Proximity and Tactile Sensors', Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201901845
    Journal articles | 2020
    Yao S; Li X; Liu C; Zhang J; Li Y; Gan T; Liu B; Kuang W, 2020, 'New assessment indicator of habitat suitability for migratory bird in wetland based on hydrodynamic model and vegetation growth threshold', ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106556
    Journal articles | 2019
    Luo H; Lou VWQ; Li Y; Chi I, 2019, 'Development and Validation of a Prognostic Tool for Identifying Residents at Increased Risk of Death in Long-Term Care Facilities', JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, 22, pp. 258 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2018.0219
  • Conference Papers | 2025
    Ding Z; Deng G; Liu Y; Ding J; Chen J; Sui Y; Li Y, 2025, 'IllusionCAPTCHA: A CAPTCHA based on Visual Illusion', in Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, ACM, pp. 3683 - 3691, presented at WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3696410.3714726
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Deng G; Liu Y; Mayoral-Vilches V; Liu P; Li Y; Xu Y; Zhang T; Liu Y; Pinzger M; Rass S, 2024, 'PENTESTGPT: Evaluating and Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Penetration Testing', in Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 847 - 864
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Du Z; Li Y; Zheng Y; Zhang X; Zhang C; Liu Y; Habib SM; Li X; Wang L; Liu Y; Mao B, 2024, 'Medusa: Unveil Memory Exhaustion DoS Vulnerabilities in Protocol Implementations', in WWW 2024 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, pp. 1668 - 1679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645476
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Liu T; Deng Z; Meng G; Li Y; Chen K, 2024, 'Demystifying RCE Vulnerabilities in LLM-Integrated Apps', in CCS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 1716 - 1730, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3658644.3690338
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Liu Y; Deng G; Xu Z; Li Y; Zheng Y; Zhang Y; Zhao L; Zhang T; Wang K, 2024, 'A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jailbreaking ChatGPT via Prompt Engineering', in SEA4DQ 2024 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things, Co-located with: ESEC/FSE 2024, pp. 12 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3663530.3665021
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Wang G; Li Y; Liu Y; Deng G; Li T; Xu G; Liu Y; Wang H; Wang K, 2024, 'MeTMaP: Metamorphic Testing for Detecting False Vector Matching Problems in LLM Augmented Generation', in Proceedings - 2024 IEEE/ACM 1st International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering, FORGE 2024, pp. 12 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3650105.3652297
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Xu Z; Liu Y; Deng G; Li Y; Picek S, 2024, 'A Comprehensive Study of Jailbreak Attack versus Defense for Large Language Models', in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 7432 - 7449, presented at 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11 August 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.13457
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Yang W; Gao C; Liu X; Li Y; Xue Y, 2024, 'Rust-twins: Automatic Rust Compiler Testing through Program Mutation and Dual Macros Generation', in Proceedings - 2024 39th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2024, pp. 631 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3691620.3695059
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Yu J; Xie X; Zhang C; Chen S; Li Y; Shen W, 2024, 'Bugs in Pods: Understanding Bugs in Container Runtime Systems', in ISSTA 2024 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pp. 1364 - 1376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3650212.3680366
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Zhang C; Zheng Y; Bai M; Li Y; Ma W; Xie X; Li Y; Sun L; Liu Y, 2024, 'How Effective Are They? Exploring Large Language Model Based Fuzz Driver Generation', in ISSTA 2024 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pp. 1223 - 1235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3650212.3680355
    Preprints | 2024
    Zhang X; Zhang C; Li X; Du Z; Mao B; Li Y; Zheng Y; Li Y; Pan L; Liu Y; Deng RH, 2024, A Survey of Protocol Fuzzing, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.01568
    Conference Papers | 2024
    Zhao J; Li Y; Zou Y; Liang Z; Xiao Y; Li Y; Peng B; Zhong N; Wang X; Wang W; Huo W, 2024, 'Leveraging Semantic Relations in Code and Data to Enhance Taint Analysis of Embedded Systems', in Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 7067 - 7084
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Deng G; Zhang Z; Li Y; Liu Y; Zhang T; Liu Y; Yu G; Wang D, 2023, 'NAUTILUS: Automated RESTful API Vulnerability Detection', in 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2023, pp. 5593 - 5610
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Du Z; Li Y, 2023, 'HasteFuzz: Full-Speed Fuzzing', in Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing, SBFT 2023, pp. 73 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SBFT59156.2023.00022
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Ge J; Li Y; Liu Y; Zheng Y; Liu Y; Zhao L, 2023, 'PumpChannel: An Efficient and Secure Communication Channel for Trusted Execution Environment on ARM-FPGA Embedded SoC', in Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE, http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/DATE56975.2023.10137170
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Liu Y; Li Y; Deng G; Juefei-Xu F; Du Y; Zhang C; Liu C; Li Y; Ma L; Liu Y, 2023, 'ASTER: Automatic Speech Recognition System Accessibility Testing for Stutterers', in Proceedings - 2023 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2023, pp. 510 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00107
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Sapin E; Menon S; Ge J; Habib SM; Heymann M; Li Y; Palige R; Byman G; Liu Y, 2023, 'Monitoring Automotive Software Security Health through Trustworthiness Score', in Proceedings: CSCS 2023 - 7th ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3631204.3631859
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Shi J; Xiao Y; Li Y; Li Y; Yu D; Yu C; Su H; Chen Y; Huo W, 2023, 'ACETest: Automated Constraint Extraction for Testing Deep Learning Operators', in ISSTA 2023 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pp. 690 - 702, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3597926.3598088
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Yin J; Li M; Li Y; Yu Y; Lin B; Zou Y; Liu Y; Huo W; Xue J, 2023, 'RSFuzzer: Discovering Deep SMI Handler Vulnerabilities in UEFI Firmware with Hybrid Fuzzing', in Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 2155 - 2169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SP46215.2023.10179421
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Du Z; Li Y; Liu Y; Mao B, 2022, 'Windranger: A Directed Greybox Fuzzer driven by Deviation Basic Blocks', in Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 2440 - 2451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510197
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Ge J; Li Y; Zheng Y; Liu Y; Habib SM, 2022, 'More Secure Collaborative APIs resistant to Flush-Based Cache Attacks on Cortex-A9 Based Automotive System', in Proceedings - CSCS 2022: 6th ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3568160.3570227
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Li Y; Sun Y; Xu Z; Cao J; Li Y; Li R; Chen H; Cheung SC; Liu Y; Xiao Y, 2022, 'RegexScalpel: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Defense by Localize-and-Fix', in Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Security 2022, pp. 4183 - 4200
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Liu Y; Li Y; Deng G; Liu Y; Wan R; Wu R; Ji D; Xu S; Bao M, 2022, 'Morest: Model-based RESTful API Testing with Execution Feedback', in Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 1406 - 1417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510133
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Liu Y; Li Y; Liu Y; Wan R; Wu R; Liu Q, 2022, 'Morest: Industry Practice of Automatic RESTful API Testing', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3551349.3559498
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Zheng Y; Li Y; Zhang C; Zhu H; Liu Y; Sun L, 2022, 'Efficient greybox fuzzing of applications in Linux-based IoT devices via enhanced user-mode emulation', in ISSTA 2022 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pp. 417 - 428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3533767.3534414
    Conference Papers | 2021
    He X; Xie X; Li Y; Sun J; Li F; Zou W; Liu Y; Yu L; Zhou J; Shi W; Huo W, 2021, 'SoFi: Reflection-Augmented Fuzzing for JavaScript Engines', in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 2229 - 2242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3460120.3484823
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Li S; Lin Y; Xie X; Li Y; Li X; Ge W; Liu Y; Dong J, 2021, 'A First Look at the Effect of Deep Learning in Coverage-guided Fuzzing', in Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2021, pp. 1186 - 1189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASE51524.2021.9678794
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Li Y; Meng G; Xu J; Zhang C; Chen H; Xie X; Wang H; Liu Y, 2021, 'Vall-nut: Principled Anti-Grey box - Fuzzing', in Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE, pp. 288 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE52982.2021.00039
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Tian Z; Li Y, 2021, 'AutoCom: Automatic comment generation for C code', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE, pp. 632 - 633, http://dx.doi.org/10.18293/SEKE2021-202
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Zhang C; Li Y; Chen H; Luo X; Li M; Nguyen AQ; Liu Y, 2021, 'BIFF: Practical Binary Fuzzing Framework for Programs of IoT and Mobile Devices', in Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2021, pp. 1161 - 1165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASE51524.2021.9678910
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Zhang C; Lin X; Li Y; Xue Y; Xie J; Chen H; Ying X; Wang J; Liu Y, 2021, 'APICRAFT: Fuzz driver generation for closed-source SDK libraries', in Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 2811 - 2828
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Chen H; Guo S; Xue Y; Sui Y; Zhang C; Li Y; Wang H; Liu Y, 2020, 'MUZZ: Thread-aware grey-box fuzzing for effective bug hunting in multithreaded programs', in Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 2325 - 2342
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Li Y; Chen H; Zhang C; Xiong S; Liu C; Wang Y, 2020, 'Ori: A greybox fuzzer for SOME/IP protocols in automotive ethernet', in Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC, pp. 495 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APSEC51365.2020.00063
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Wang H; Xie X; Li Y; Wen C; Li Y; Liu Y; Qin S; Chen H; Sui Y, 2020, 'Typestate-guided fuzzer for discovering use-after-free vulnerabilities', in Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 999 - 1010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3377811.3380386
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Wen C; Wang H; Li Y; Qin S; Liu Y; Xu Z; Chen H; Xie X; Pu G; Liu T, 2020, 'Memlock: Memory usage guided fuzzing', in Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 765 - 777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3377811.3380396
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Du X; Chen B; Li Y; Guo J; Zhou Y; Liu Y; Jiang Y, 2019, 'LEOPARD: Identifying Vulnerable Code for Vulnerability Assessment Through Program Metrics', in Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 60 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2019.00024
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Li Y; Xue Y; Chen H; Wu X; Zhang C; Xie X; Wang H; Liu Y, 2019, 'Cerebro: Context-aware adaptive fuzzing for effective vulnerability detection', in ESEC/FSE 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 533 - 544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338975
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Wang H; Xie X; Lin SW; Lin Y; Li Y; Qin S; Liu Y; Liu T, 2019, 'Locating vulnerabilities in binaries via memory layout recovering', in ESEC/FSE 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 718 - 728, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3338906.3338966
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Xie X; Ma L; Wang H; Li Y; Liu Y; Li X, 2019, 'Diffchaser: Detecting disagreements for deep neural networks', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 5772 - 5778, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/800
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Chen H; Chen B; Xue Y; Xie X; Liu Y; Li Y; Wu X, 2018, 'Hawkeye: Towards a desired directed grey-box fuzzer', in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 2095 - 2108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3243734.3243849
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Chen H; Li Y; Chen B; Xue Y; Liu Y, 2018, 'FOT: A versatile, configurable, extensible fuzzing framework', in ESEC/FSE 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 867 - 870, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3264593
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Li Y, 2018, 'Principled greybox fuzzing', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 455 - 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02450-5_34
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Li Y; Chen B; Chandramohan M; Lin SW; Liu Y; Tiu A, 2017, 'Steelix: Program-state based binary fuzzing', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 627 - 637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3106237.3106295

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