Zichuan Li 李子川


zichuan7 AT illinois DOT edu
OR zichuan DOT li AT outlook DOT com

Welcome! I am a first/second/third-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign advised by Prof. Luyi Xing. Previously, I received my B.Eng. and M.Eng. degree(advised by Prof. Guojun Peng) from Wuhan University in 2020 and 2023, respectively.

In general, my research area is system and software security. I mainly focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, with a broad interest in machine learning security and program analysis techniques. I have done a lot of hacking on IoT devices.

Recently, I am learning programming languages and deep learning :)
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News

2025-09-12 I am happy to be recognized as a Noteworthy Reviewer in USENIX 2025! link
2025-08-02 We team Hoosiers won the πŸ… First place at the AgentX competiton hosted by Berkeley RDI. link
2025-02-10 We team Hoosiers (Jian and I) won πŸ₯ˆ Second Place in the Safety Track of the LLM Agent Hackathon hosted by Berkeley RDI. link
2024-08-23 Spent a wonderful summer with Binja folks! Check out our blog on Binja's UEFI plugin! link
2024-05-14 Phoenix acknowledged my report and published a vulnerability fix link
2024-04-11 Accepted an offer from Vector 35, and will be working in beautiful Florida this summer!

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Industry Experience

2024.05 ~ 2024.08     Vector35 Inc.     Summer Intern
Built and imporved UEFI plugin for Binary Ninja.
Advanced UEFI Analysis with Binary Ninja, The Fallback Type Library
2022.06 ~ 2022.08     OPPO Telecom.     Summer Intern
Researched on Android clipboard privacy protection method.

Publications

2025

[10] Consiglieres in the Shadow: Understanding the Use of Uncensored Large Language Models in Cybercrimes pdfbib
Zilong Lin, Zichuan Li, Xiaojing Liao, Xiaofeng Wang
arXiv:2508.12622

[9] Safeguard-by-Development: A Privacy-Enhanced Development Paradigm for Multi-Agent Collaboration Systems pdfbib
Jian Cui, Zichuan Li, Luyi Xing, Xiaojing Liao
arXiv:2505.04799
First place in AgentX competition. Adopted by AG2.

[8] Les Dissonances: Cross-Tool Harvesting and Polluting in Multi-Tool Empowered LLM Agents pdfbib
Zichuan Li*, Jian Cui*, Xiaojing Liao, Luyi Xing
arXiv:2504.03111
Second place in LLM Agent Hackathon competition.

[7] MODFuzz: A Multiobjective Directed Fuzzer for USB Drivers pdfbib
Yilin Zhou, Guojun Peng, XingLiang Wang, Chenyang Wang, Zichuan Li, Side Liu, Yanhao Wang, Xiuzhang Yang, Jianming Fu
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 12, Issue: (12), 21364-21378 [DOI]
Discovered 6 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel


Vulnerability Credits


Honors & Awards

02/2025 2nd at the safety track of LLM Agent Hackathon
08/2025 1st at the safety track of AgentX
05/2023 Outstanding Graduate Student, Wuhan University.
12/2022 7th at Datacon Data Security Analytics Competition: IoT security Track. ($700)
09/2022 1st rank scholarship for graduate students at Wuhan University. ($600)
12/2021 1st at Datacon Data Security Analytics Competition: Email Security Track. ($7000)
09/2021 1st rank scholarship for graduate students at Wuhan University. ($600)
05/2021 1st rank scholarship for research excellent at Wuhan University
11/2020 3rd Prize at Coremail Email Security Competition. ($1500)
09/2019 3rd Prize at Chinese Information Hiding Competition.

Teaching & Services



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