Zhenyu Li

Hi! I'm a third-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Virginia (UVA), advised by Prof. Chang Lou. I completed my master's degree at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and my undergraduate degree at Nanjing University.

Email / CV / Scholar

Research

My research interests lie in distributed systems and reliability. I focus on building practical tools that can automatically detect, diagnose, and recover from failures in production cloud infrastructure.

Publications

Pilot Execution: Simulating Failure Recovery In Situ for Production Distributed Systems
Zhenyu Li, Angting Cai, Chang Lou
The 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2026
code / slides

Secure Split Learning against Property Inference, Data Reconstruction, and Feature Space Hijacking Attacks
Yunlong Mao, Zexi Xin, Zhenyu Li, et al.
The 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2023
slides

Awards and Honors

UVA Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2024
SOSP 2024 Travel Grant

Experience

Software Engineer Intern, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jun. - Sep. 2023
Software Engineer Intern, Alibaba, Jun. - Sep. 2021

Updated at Jan. 2026 | This website is a modification of Jon Barron's