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Vector Guo Li

vectorli@google.com

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About Me


I am currently a Software Engineer working at Google Cloud. I graduated with Computer Science Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2020, advised by Kirill Levchenko and Stefan Savage. I am broadly interested in Security and System research. My past work includes threat intelligence, de-compilation, program analysis and reverse-engineering.

My current research focuses on cyber threat intelligence, where we analyze the data characteristic, how it has been used, and its operational value.
I am also very interested in reverse-engineering. I have reverse-engineered Volkswagen diesel engine firmware and uncovered the emission cheating logic. I also reverse-engineered Cerber Ransomware and uncovered its payment URL generation method.

Publication

Clairvoyance: Inferring Blocklist Use on the Internet

Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2021 (PAM). 2021.
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Reading the Tea Leaves: A Comparative Analysis of Threat Intelligence

Vector G. Li, Matthew Dunn, Paul Pearce, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, Kirill Levchenko

Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (Usenix). 2019.
[paper]

Tracking Ransomware End-to-End

Danny Y. Huang, Maxwell M. Aliapoulios, Vector G. Li, Luca Invernizzi, Elie Bursztein, Kylie McRoberts, Jonathan Levin, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, Damon McCoy.

IEEE Security and Privacy Conference (S&P). 2018.
[paper]

How They Did It: An Analysis of Emission Defeat Devices in Modern Automobiles

Moritz Contag, Vector G. Li, Andre Pawlowski, Felix Domke, Kirill Levchenko, Thorsten Holz, Stefan Savage

IEEE Security and Privacy Conference (S&P). 2017.
[paper]

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