Yi Li

Yi Li is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), focusing on the security, reliability, and sustainability of modern software systems. Their work bridges blockchain-based decentralized applications and software evolution management.

• Research Interests: Sustainability of evolving software systems, security/reliability of blockchain applications, semantic history slicing, and compositional analysis.
• Academic Roles: Associate Professor (2024–Present), Assistant Professor (2018–2024) at NTU, and research internships at Google and Microsoft Research.
• Scientific Awards:
  • Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS'25
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE'23
• Professional Activities:
  • Co-Chair, Journal-First Track at FSE'25 and APSEC'25
  • Program Committee roles at ICSE, FSE, ASE, FM, and others (2016–2025)
  • Organizing and reviewing for IEEE/ACM journals
• Key Publications:
  • 2025: ICSE (SpecGen), FSE (invariant analysis), ISSTA
  • 2024: INFOCOM (LightCross), ASE, ACM Computing Surveys
  • 2023–2014: SPLC, ASE, FM, Dagstuhl Reports
• Student Advising: Chenguang Zhu (UT Austin, advisor Sarfraz Khurshid), Tai D. Nguyen (SMU, advisor Jun Sun).