Dr. Simon Xiaoqi Li / 李晓琦
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Biography
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Simon 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/Software/System Security and Privacy, Ethereum/Smart Contract, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. He received best paper awards from INFOCOM'18, ISPEC'17, CCF'18, and outstanding reviewer award from FGCS'17. He also serves as associate editor for Frontiers in Blockchain and received grants from OSDI'20 and USENIX SEC'20. |
Education
- Ph.D. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
- M.Sc. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
- B.Sc. Central South University, Changsha
Research Interests
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Blockchain, Software/System Security, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
Selected Awards
- Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program (拔尖人才), Hainan Province, 2024.
- Best Paper Award (CCF-A), IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2018.
- Best Paper Award, 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.
- ESI Hot Paper, Clarivate Analytics, 2021.
- ESI Highly Cited Paper, Clarivate Analytics, 2020.
- Outstanding Reviewer, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2017.
- High-Level Talent Program, Hainan Province, 2021.
- Award of Faculty Teaching Contest, 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, PR 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 (Semester 1/2, 2021-2024, Instructor@HNU)
- J00067 Course Design for Information Security Fundamentals (Semester 2, 2023-2024, Instructor@HNU)
- Y00278 Network Attack and Defense Technology (Semester 1, 2022/23, Instructor@HNU)
- Z16167 Information Security Management (Semester 1, 2021/22, 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
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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)] -
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'24)] -
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'21)] -
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'20)] -
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)] -
On Discovering Vulnerabilities in Android Applications
(Book Chapter)
Xiaoqi Li, Le Yu, Xiapu Luo
[Mobile Security and Privacy: Advances, Challenges and Future Research Directions, Elsevier, 2017 (Elsevier'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
Ting Chen, Xiaoqi Li, Xiapu Luo, Xiaosong Zhang
[Software Quality Journal, 2018 (SQJ'18)]
Selected Professional Services
- Frontiers in Blockchain
- International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Blockchain (SPB), 2024/2023
- Journal of Information Security Research
- Sustainability
- International Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Conference (AIBC), 2024/2023
- Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference (BIOTC), 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
- 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 Software (SW)
- Information Sciences
- Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
- Blockchain: Research and Applications (BCRA)
- The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
- The 33rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2023
- International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), 2021
- International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA), 2021
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2020
- International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2020