Shaoyu Li

Shaoyu Li

PhD student at CNSR@VT

I am a fourth-year PhD student at Virginia Tech, advised by Prof. Wenjing Lou. I am also part of the CNSR-VT lab. My research interests include blockchain and network security.

I graduated with my B.S. in Information Security from Nankai University in Tianjin, China, in June 2020. Later, I graduated with an M.S. in IT Cyber Security from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom in January 2022.

Publications

FC-GUARD: A Privacy-Preserving Exchange System Between Fiat Currency and Cryptocurrency PDF
Shaoyu Li, Hexuan Yu, Md Mohaimin Al Barat, Yang Xiao, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’26), May 2026.
Bijack: Breaking Bitcoin Network with TCP Vulnerabilities PDF
Shaoyu Li, Shanghao Shi, Yang Xiao, Chaoyu Zhang, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'23), September 2023.
StarCast: A Secure and Spectrum-Efficient Group Communication Scheme for LEO Satellite Networks PDF
Chaoyu Zhang, Hexuan Yu, Shanghao Shi, Shaoyu Li, Yi Shi, Eric Burger, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou
IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN’25), May 2025.
SoK: Public Blockchain Sharding PDF
Md Mohaimin Al Barat, Shaoyu Li, Changlai Du, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC'24), May 2024.
Hermes: Boosting the performance of machine-learning-based intrusion detection system through geometric feature learning PDF
Chaoyu Zhang, Shanghao Shi, Ning Wang, Xiangxiang Xu, Shaoyu Li, Lizhong Zheng, Randy Marchany, Mark Gardner, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou
ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc’24), October 2024.

Experience

2020.06 - 2021.01 Research Assistant at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2023.01 - 2023.05 Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS4264: Principles Computer Security at Virginia Tech

Professional Services

Reviewer or Subreviewer: IEEE S&P’22,23,24,25,26; ESORICS’22,23,24,25; INFOCOM’24,25; WieSec’25