Dr. Simon Xiaoqi Li / 李曉琦

Associate Professor & PhD Supervisor
School of Cyberspace Security, Hainan University, Haikou
IEEE & ACM & AAAI Member, CCF Senior Member, CAAI Life Member
Emails: csxqli@ieee.org / csxqli[at]hainanu.edu.cn
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Biography

Simon, born in Hebei, is an associate professor at Hainan University. Previously, he was a researcher at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Xiapu Luo and Prof. Ting Chen. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, MSc in Information Security from Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Yuqing Zhang, and BSc in Information Security from Central South University under the supervision of Prof. Guojun Wang. His current research interests include Blockchain, Computer Security, Software Engineering, and AI. He received best paper awards from INFOCOM'18, ISPEC'17, CCF'18. He also received gold medal from the exhibition of inventions geneva, and blockchain innovator of the year award. Otherwise, he serves as Editor/Chair/Keynote Speaker for journals/conferences, and received grants from NSFC, CCF, Tencent, OSDI'20, USENIX SEC'20, etc.

Education

Ph.D. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
M.Sc. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
B.Sc. Central South University, Changsha

Research Interests

Blockchain, Computer Security, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

Selected Awards

Gold Medal, The 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, Switzerland, 2025.
Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program (拔尖人才), Hainan Province, 2024.
Best Paper Award (CCF-A), The 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2018.
Best Paper Award, The 13th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC), 2017.
Best Paper Award, China Computer Federation (CCF) Technical Committee on Blockchain, 2018.
Annual Global Top-50 Blockchain Research Paper, SV Insight, 2018.
Silver Award, The 11th International Exhibition of Inventions, China, 2025.
ESI Hot Paper (Top 0.1%), Clarivate Analytics, 2021.
ESI Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%), Clarivate Analytics, 2020-Now.
Blockchain Innovator of the Year Award, Smart City Conference, 2024.
Outstanding Reviewer, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2017.
High-Level Talent Program, Hainan Province, 2021.
Excellent Paper Award, Journal of Information Security Research, 2024.
Excellent Faculty Award, Hainan University, 2025.
Faculty Teaching Contest Award, School of Cyberspace Security (SCS-HNU), 2022.
Registration Grant, USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2020.
Registration Grant, USENIX Security Symposium (SEC), 2020.
Excellent Thesis Award, Central South University, 2013.
National Scholarships of China, China’s Ministry of Education, 2009-2013.

Selected Fundings

PI (獨立主持人), National Natural Science Foundation of China (國家自然科學基金 No.62402146), 2024.
PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (國家自然科學基金 No.62362021), 2023.
PI, CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Open Research Fund (CCF-騰訊犀牛鳥基金 No. RAGR20230115), 2023.
PI, Hainan Provincial Department of Education Project (海南省教育廳項目 No.HNJG2023-10), 2023.
PI, School-enterprise Joint Project (校企聯合項目 No.RH2300005610), 2023.
PI, High-Level Talent Research Starting Fund (高層次引進人才啟動基金 No.RZ2200001265), 2022.
PI, Teaching Reform Project of Hainan University (海南大學教改項目 No.HDJG2327), 2023.

Teaching Experience

Z16312&Y00290 Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Test (2021-Now, Instructor@HNU)
J00067 Course Design for Information Security Fundamentals (2021-Now, Instructor@HNU)
Y00278 Network Attack and Defense Technology (2021-Now, Instructor@HNU)
Z16167 Information Security Management (2021-Now, Instructor@HNU)
COMP2322 Computer Networking (Semester 2, 2018/19, TA@PolyU)
COMP4141 Crowdfunding and E-finance (Semester 1, 2018/19, TA@PolyU)
COMP3531 IT Entrepreneurship (Semester 2, 2017/18, TA@PolyU)
COMP3134 Business Intelligence and Customer Relationship (Semester 1, 2017/18, TA@PolyU)
COMP3233 Software Testing and Quality Assurance (Semester 2, 2016/17, TA@PolyU)
COMP3334 Computer Systems Security (Semester 1, 2016/17, TA@PolyU)
091M5005H Mobile Internet Technology (Semester 2, 2015/16, TA@CAS)
715005H High-Performance Computing and Application (Semester 1, 2015/16, TA@CAS)
712050H&712053H Advanced Operating System I&II (Semester 2, 2014/15, TA@CAS)
711011H Information Security Engineering (Semester 1, 2014/15, TA@CAS)

Selected Publications | More in Google Scholar

Interaction-Aware Vulnerability Detection in Smart Contract Bytecodes [PDF]
Wenkai Li, Xiaoqi Li, Yingjie Mao, Yuqing Zhang
[IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025 (TDSC)]
SCALM: Detecting Bad Practices in Smart Contracts through LLMs [PDF]
Zongwei Li, Xiaoqi Li, Wenkai Li, Xin Wang
[The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025 (AAAI'25)]
Sweeping the Blockchain: Unmasking Illicit Accounts in Web3 Scams [PDF]
Wenkai Li, Zhijie Liu, Xiaoqi Li
[Black Hat, 2025 (BlackHat'25)]
Guardians of the Ledger: Protecting Decentralized Exchanges from State Derailment Defects [PDF]
Zongwei Li, Wenkai Li, Xiaoqi Li, Yuqing Zhang
[IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2024 (TRel)]
COBRA: Interaction-Aware Bytecode-Level Vulnerability Detector for Smart Contracts [PDF]
Wenkai Li, Xiaoqi Li, Zongwei Li, Yuqing Zhang
[The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024 (ASE'24)]
StateGuard: Detecting State Derailment Defects in Decentralized Exchange Smart Contract [PDF]
Zongwei Li, Wenkai Li, Xiaoqi Li, Yuqing Zhang
[The 33rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference, 2024 (WWW'24)]
DeFiTail: DeFi Protocol Inspection through Cross-Contract Execution Analysis [PDF]
Wenkai Li, Xiaoqi Li, Yuqing Zhang, Zongwei Li
[The 33rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference, 2024 (WWW'24)]
GasTrace: Detecting Sandwich Attack Malicious Accounts in Ethereum [PDF]
Zekai Liu, Xiaoqi Li, Hongli Peng, Wenkai Li
[The 21th IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2024 (ICWS'24)]
AuthROS: Secure Data Sharing Among Robot Operating Systems Based on Ethereum [PDF]
Shenhui Zhang, Wenkai Li, Xiaoqi Li, Boyi Liu
[The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security, 2022 (QRS'22)]
Security Analysis of DeFi: Vulnerabilities, Attacks and Advances [PDF]
Wenkai Li, Jiuyang Bu, Xiaoqi Li, Xianyi Chen
[The IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, 2022 (ICBC'22)]
GasChecker: Scalable Analysis for Discovering Gas-Inefficient Smart Contracts [PDF]
Ting Chen, Youzheng Feng, Zihao Li, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Xiaoqi Li, Xiuzhuo Xiao, Jiachi Chen, and Xiaosong Zhang
[IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2021 (TETC)]
CLUE: Towards Discovering Locked Cryptocurrencies in Ethereum [PDF]
Xiaoqi Li, Ting Chen, Xiapu Luo, Chenxu Wang
[The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 2021 (SAC'21)]
A Survey on the Security of Blockchain Systems [PDF]
(ESI Hot Paper & Highly Cited Paper)
Xiaoqi Li, Peng Jiang, Ting Chen, Xiapu Luo, Qiaoyan Wen
[Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020 (FGCS)]
Characterizing Erasable Accounts in Ethereum [PDF]
Xiaoqi Li, Ting Chen, Xiapu Luo, Jiangshan Yu
[The 23rd Information Security Conference, 2020 (ISC'20)]
STAN: Towards Describing Bytecodes of Smart Contract [PDF]
Xiaoqi Li, Ting Chen, Xiapu Luo, Tao Zhang, Le Yu, Zhou Xu
[The 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security, 2020 (QRS'20)]
Understanding Ethereum via Graph Analysis [PDF]
(Best Paper Award)
Ting Chen, Yuxiao Zhu, Zihao Li, Jiachi Chen, Xiaoqi Li, Xiapu Luo, Xiaodong Lin, Xiaosong Zhang
[The 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2018 (INFOCOM'18)]
Towards Saving Money in Using Smart Contracts [PDF]
Ting Chen, Zihao Li, Hao Zhou, Jiachi Chen, Xiaoqi Li, Xiapu Luo, and Xiaosong Zhang
[The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2018 (ICSE'18)]
An Adaptive Gas Cost Mechanism for Ethereum to Defend Against Under-Priced DoS Attacks [PDF]
(Best Paper Award)
Ting Chen, Xiaoqi Li, Ying Wang, Jiachi Chen, Xiapu Luo, Man Ho Au, Xiaosong Zhang
[The 13th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, 2017 (ISPEC'17)]
Under-optimized Smart Contracts Devour Your Money [PDF]
(SV-Insight Annual Global Top-50 Blockchain Paper)
Ting Chen, Xiaoqi Li, Xiapu Luo, Xiaosong Zhang
[The 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, 2017 (SANER'17)]
A Survey of DeFi Security: Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
Wenkai Li, Jiuyang Bu, Xiaoqi Li, Hongli Peng, Yuanzheng Niu, Yuqing Zhang
[Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, 2022 (JKSU'22)]
System-Level Attacks against Android by Exploiting Asynchronous Programming [PDF]
Ting Chen, Xiaoqi Li, Xiapu Luo, Xiaosong Zhang
[Software Quality Journal, 2018 (SQJ'18)]

Selected Book(s)

On Discovering Vulnerabilities in Android Applications [PDF]
Xiaoqi Li, Le Yu, Xiapu Luo
[Mobile Security and Privacy: Advances, Challenges and Future Research Directions, Elsevier, 2017]

Selected Professional Services

Chair for Conferences:

Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference (BIOTC), 2026
International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Blockchain (SPB), 2024/2023
International Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Conference (AIBC), 2025
International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AAIML), 2026
International Conference on Digital Humanities and Socio-Cultural Innovation (DHSCI), 2025

Keynote Speaker:

The 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CISE), 2025

Associate & Guest Editor for Journals:

Frontiers in Blockchain
Journal of Information Security Research
Applied Sciences

Editorial Board for Journal(s):

ELSP Blockchain

Program Committee for Conferences:

The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
The 24th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2025
International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Foundation Models (BTFM), 2026
International Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Conference (AIBC), 2024/2023
Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference (BIOTC), 2026/2025/2024
International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Blockchain (SPB), 2023/2022
International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Applications (ICCIA), 2024/2023
International Conference on Big Data and Information Analytics (BigDIA), 2023
International Conference on Big Data and Blockchain (ICBDB), 2022
International Symposium on Fintech and Blockchain Systems (FBS), 2022

Reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)
IEEE Software (SW)
IEEE Network (SN)
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
Information Sciences
Information Fusion
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA)
Blockchain: Research and Applications (BCRA)
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)

Reviewer for Conferences:

The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
The 22nd Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025
The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
The 38th/39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025/2024
The 33rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2023
The 25th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2021
The 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2020
The 18th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2020
The 8th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA), 2021