Xiang Li is a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Network Science and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University, advised by Professors Qi Li and Haixin Duan. He belongs to the Network and Information Security Lab (NISL). He is a visiting scholar at UC Irvine as a project specialist, working with Professor Zhou Li. He is also working as a security research intern at Qi-An-Xin Technology Company. Additionally, he is the author of the fast IPv6 network device scanner XMap, open-sourced on GitHub. His research interests include network security, protocol security, IPv6 security, DNS security, Internet measurement, and network & protocol fuzzing. As the first author, he has published many research papers at top security conferences like USENIX Security, NDSS, and DSN. As the co-author, he also published multiple papers in top conferences like USENIX Security and SIGMETRICS. He also gets his presentations accepted by top industry security conferences like Black Hat. He likes to attend talks and workshops like IDS, OARC, and VehicleSec to share his research. He has obtained over 140 CVE/CNVD vulnerability numbers for a variety of influential IPv6 and DNS vulnerabilities, which have impacted over 20 home router vendors and all DNS implementations and resolver vendors. He received acknowledgements and more than $10,600 rewards from those vendors, like Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, and Akamai, and is working for the improvement of DNS protocols (related work has been referenced in RFC).

Recent News

• [02/2023](Presentation) Phoenix Domain attack accepted by Black Hat Asia 2023.
• [02/2023](Activity) I’ll attend OARC 40 in person. Let’s talk!
• [01/2023](Paper) One paper accepted by Security ‘23. Congrats, Run.
• [01/2023](Talk) One talk accepted by OARC 40.
• [12/2022](Prize) got rejected by ANRP ‘23 (6/65=9.2%). not that easy, keep working!
• [12/2022](Paper) One paper accepted by SIGMETRICS ‘23. Congratulations, Mingming!
• [12/2022](Competition) We got the 1st and 3rd prizes of IPv6 Technology Application Innovation Competition 2022. Congratulations, zhenrui and everyone!
• [11/2022](Activity) I presented my NDSS ‘23 paper Phoenix Domain in IDS 2022.
• [11/2022](Activity) I’ll attend CCS ‘22 in person. Let’s meet!
• [11/2022](Career) I’m working with Professor Zhou Li at UCI as a visiting scholar from this month. Find me at Engineering Hall cubicle 335.