Kai Li

Kai Li

Assistant Professor at San Diego State University.

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Yibo Wang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Qi Zhang, Xiapu Luo, and Ting Chen, “Towards Saving Blockchain Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023.
  2. Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Katchaguy Areekijseree, Shuigeng Zhou, Liting Hu. “Privacy-Preserving Multi-Party Directory Services”, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety.

Conference Papers

  1. Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Yuxuan Zhou, Wanning Ding, Yuzhe Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Li. Uncovering Atomicity Violations and Security Risks in Decentralized Exchange in the Wild, Euro S&P 2023.

  2. Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Yuzhe Tang. DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool sERvices, ACM CCS 2021. AR=22%. [pdf], [medium report (Korean)]. [report (Chinese)], [CVE-2022-23327], [CVE-2022-23328] .

  3. Kai Li, Jiaqi Chen, Xianghong Liu, Yuzhe Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Xiapu Luo. “As Strong As Its Weakest Link: How to Break Blockchain DApps at RPC Service”, NDSS 2021, AR=15.2%. [pdf], [medium report (Korean)].

  4. Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Yibo Wang, Xianghong Liu. TopoShot: Uncovering Ethereum’s Network Topology Leveraging Replacement Transactions, ACM IMC 2021, AR=28%. [pdf]

  5. Yibo Wang, Qi Zhang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Xiapu Luo, Ting Chen. “iBatch: Saving Ethereum Fees via Secure and Cost-Effective Batching of Smart-Contract Invocations”, ESEC/FSE 2021, AR=24.5%. [pdf]

  6. Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Qi Zhang, Jianliang Xu, Ju Chen. “Authenticated Key-Value Stores with Hardware Enclaves”, ACM/IFIP Middleware 2021 (industrial track).

  7. Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jiaqi Chen, Zhehu Yuan, Cheng Xu, Jianliang Xu. “Cost-Effective Data Feeds to Blockchains via Workload-Adaptive Data Replication”, ACM/IFIP Middleware 2020, AR=25.2%. [pdf] [code]

  8. Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, Jianliang Xu, Ben Kim. “Secure Consistency Verification for Untrusted Cloud Storage by Public Blockchains”, SecureComm 2019, AR=25.5% [pdf]

  9. Yuzhe Tang, Ju Chen, Kai Li. “Log-Structured Authenticated Data Structures for Secure Cloud Storage with Minimal Trust”, SecureComm 2019, [pdf]

  10. Qiwu Zou, Yuzhe Tang, Ju Chen, Kai Li, Charles Kamoua, Kevin Kwiat, Laurent Njilla. “ChainFS: Blockchain-Secured Cloud Storage”, IEEE Cloud 2018, [slides]

Workshop Papers

  1. Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, and Jiaqi Chen, Ethical Challenges in Blockchain Network Measurement Research”, EthiCS@NDSS 2023
  2. Yibo Wang, Kai Li, Yuzhe Tang, “Towards the Comprehensive Understanding of Ethereum Mempool DoS Security”, ConsensysDay@ACM CCS 2022.
  3. Kai Li, Qi Zhang, Lei Yu, Min Hong. “DRL-Clusters: Buffer Management with Clustering based Deep Reinforcement Learning”, DBAI @NeurIPS 2021.
  4. Yuzhe Tang, Kai Li, Yibo Wang, Sencer Burak Somuncuoglu. “Scalable Log Auditing on Private Blockchains via Lightweight Log-Fork Prevention”, SERIAL 2020, [pdf]