Wenqiang Li | Zhongguancun Lab, Beijing, China

About Me

I am currently an associate researcher at Zhongguancun Laboratory. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at The Ohio State University (OSU), working under the guidance of Prof. Zhiqiang Lin. I earned my Ph.D. from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS), where I was mentored by Prof. Jingqiang Lin. During my doctoral studies, I spent two years as a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia (UGA) and The University of Kansas (KU), working with Prof. Le Guan and Prof. Fengjun Li, respectively. Prior to my Ph.D., I completed my undergraduate studies at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

My research primarily focuses on 5G security, IoT security, and Fuzzing. In the realm of 5G security, I explore the vulnerabilities within the next-generation mobile networks, striving to enhance their resilience against cyber threats. My IoT security research is centered on MCU (Microcontroller Unit) vulnerabilities, where I aim to provide more robust methods for vulnerability detection, particularly through the integration with Fuzzing. Additionally, my expertise in Fuzzing allows me to develop automated techniques for discovering software vulnerabilities, contributing to more robust and secure systems.

I am always open to new research collaborations and opportunities to further advance these fields, as well as in other areas of interest.

Research Interests

5G Security: vulnerabilities in next-generation mobile networks, resilience enhancement against cyber threats
IoT Security: MCU (Microcontroller Unit) vulnerabilities, robust methods for vulnerability detection
Fuzzing: automated techniques for discovering software vulnerabilities

News

[Jul. 2024] Our paper about vendor RIL commands discovery has been accepted to CCS 2024.

Publications

BaseMirror: Automatic Reverse Engineering of Baseband Commands from Android’s Radio Interface Layer

Wenqiang Li, Haohuang Wen*, Zhiqiang Lin (*Co-first author)

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024.

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Facilitating Non-Intrusive In-Vivo Firmware Testing with Stateless Instrumentation

Jiameng Shi, Wenqiang Li, Wenwen Wang, Le Guan

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024.

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BTD: Unleashing the Power of Decompilation for x86 Deep Neural Network Executables

Zhibo Liu, Yuanyuan Yuan, Xiaofei Xie, Tianxiang Li, Wenqiang Li, Shuai Wang

(Black Hat USA ), 2023.

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HARM: Hardware-assisted Continuous Rerandomization for Microcontrollers

Jiameng Shi, Le Guan, Wenqiang Li, Dayou Zhang, Ning Zhang, Ping Chen

IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2022.

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μAFL: Non-intrusive Feedback-driven Fuzzing for Microcontroller Firmware

Wenqiang Li, Jiameng Shi, Fengjun Li, Jingqiang Lin, Wei Wang, Le Guan

International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2022.

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From Library Portability to Para-rehosting: Natively Executing Microcontroller Software on Commodity Hardware

Wenqiang Li, Le Guan, Jingqiang Lin, Jiameng Shi, Fengjun Li

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021.

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