: MC-ORAM appears at ISCA 2026
MC-ORAM: A Mask-Assisted and Counter-Based Non-Deterministic ORAM Inside VM-Based TEEs, joint work with Yongqin Wang, Rachit Rajat, Jonghyun Lee, and Murali Annavaram, appears at ISCA 2026.
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2026
: Hollow-LLM Attack appears at IEEE S&P 2026
Hollow-LLM Attack: Computationally Trivial Weights in Zero-Knowledge Verification of LLM Inference, by Chen Gong, Beijie Liu, and Mengyuan Li, appears at the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
: Talk at the University of Chicago
Prof. Li gave a talk titled Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution Environments: Challenges and Opportunities for Trustworthy AI at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science.
: WAVE appears at ASPLOS 2026
WAVE: Leveraging Architecture Observation for Privacy-Preserving Model Oversight, by Haoxuan Xu, Chen Gong, Beijie Liu, Haizhong Zheng, Beidi Chen, and Mengyuan Li, is published in the ASPLOS 2026 proceedings. The artifact is available on GitHub.
: SCALE presented at HPCA 2026
SCALE, which tackles communication bottlenecks in confidential multi-GPU machine learning, was presented at HPCA 2026 in the Distributed and Multi-GPU Training session.
2025
: Writing in Symbiosis at the NeurIPS 2025 Creative AI Track
Writing in Symbiosis: Mapping Human Creative Agency in the AI Era, by Vivan Doshi and Mengyuan Li, appears in the NeurIPS 2025 Creative AI Track.
: RMP entry caching study at HASP 2025
A Close Look at RMP Entry Caching and Its Security Implications in SEV-SNP appeared at HASP 2025. AMD published security bulletin AMD-SB-3036 on October 20, 2025, crediting the researchers.
: Chekhov’s Gun appears at ACM CCS 2025
Chekhov’s Gun: Uncovering Hidden Risks in macOS Application-Sandboxed PID-Domain Services, led by Minghao Lin, is published in the ACM CCS 2025 proceedings.
: Few-shot graph OOD detection at ECML PKDD 2025
Few-Shot Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection with LLMs, first-authored by PhD student Haoyan Xu, is published in the ECML PKDD 2025 proceedings.
2024
: SoK on TEE design choices at ACM ASIACCS 2024
SoK: Understanding Design Choices and Pitfalls of Trusted Execution Environments appears at ACM ASIACCS 2024.
: SEPT Lab starts at USC
Mengyuan Li joined the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at USC as an Assistant Professor and started SEPT Lab.