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Shaohua Li

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Email: shaohuali@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I am looking for PostDoc/Ph.D./RA/Intern students to join my group. If you’re interested, please drop me an email (shaohuali.cuhk@gmail.com) with your CV. See Openings for more details.

I recently obtained my Ph.D. at the AST Lab at ETH Zurich, advised by Zhendong Su. Previously, I got both my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

News

  • [Feb, 2025] Our SAND from ICSE 2025 has been upstreamed to AFL++ 🥳 6a4b580
  • [Jan, 2025] Our paper on decoupling sanitization from fuzzing loop is accepted to ICSE 2025.
  • [Oct, 2024] I will be serving as the PC member of PLDI 2025.
  • [Jun, 2024] Our paper Creal receives the Distinguished Artifact Award at PLDI 2024.
  • [May, 2024] I passed my Ph.D. defense 🥳. Prof. Mathias Payer and Prof. Andreas Zeller were on my committee.
  • [Mar, 2024] Our paper is accepted to PLDI 2024.
  • [Mar, 2024] I received the Student Travel Grant in ASPLOS 2024.
  • [Jan, 2024] I was invited to join the PLDI 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee.
  • [Nov, 2023] Our paper UBFuzz received the Distinguished Artifact Award at ASPLOS 2024.
  • [Oct, 2023] Our paper PGE received the Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2023.

Research Interests

I’m broadly interested in topics related to programming languages (PL), software engineering (SE) and security. In particular, I’m interested in the reliability and security of critical software systems such as compilers, databases, static/dynamic analysis tools, etc.
Well…finally, AI. I’m recently thinking about how to solve classic PL/SE/Security problems using AI. On the other hand, since AI models are still working as software/programs, they may also suffer from classic PL/SE/Security programs.

Awards and Grants

  • 🏆 2024 Distinguished Artifact Award at ACM PLDI’24
  • 🏆 2024 Distinguished Artifact Award at ACM ASPLOS’24
  • 🏆💰 ASPLOS’24 Student Travel Grant
  • 🏆 2023 Distinguished Paper Award at ACM OOPSLA’23 Link
  • 🏆 2022 Meta Security Research Award (💰 with a grant support of $84,590) Link

Recent Publications

  1. arXiv 2025
    Is Your Benchmark (Still) Useful? Dynamic Benchmarking for Code Language Models
    Batu Guan , Xiao Wu , Yuanyuan Yuan , and Shaohua Li
    ArXiv, 2025
    PDF
  2. ICSE 2025
    SAND: Decoupling Sanitization from Fuzzing for Low Overhead
    Ziqiao Kong* , Shaohua Li*, Heqing Huang , and Zhendong Su
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025
    (*Equal contribution). This work has been upsteamed to AFL++🎉 (Checkout [Code] for details).
    PDF Code
  3. PLDI 2024
    Boosting Compiler Testing by Injecting Real-World Code
    Shaohua Li, Theodoros Theodoridis , and Zhendong Su
    ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2024
    🏆 Distinguished Artifact Award
    PDF Code
  4. ASPLOS 2024
    UBfuzz: Finding Bugs in Sanitizer Implementations
    Shaohua Li, and Zhendong Su
    ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2024
    🏆 Distinguished Artifact Award
    PDF Code
  5. OOPSLA 2023
    Accelerating Fuzzing through Prefix-guided Execution
    Shaohua Li, and Zhendong Su
    ACM on Programming Languages, OOPSLA, 2023
    🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
    PDF Code
  6. ASPLOS 2023
    Finding Unstable Code via Compiler-Driven Differential Testing
    Shaohua Li, and Zhendong Su
    ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023
    PDF Code