Xiang Li (李想)

I am now leading the Innovative Lab for Cryptographic Computing in China Telecom eSurfing Cloud (State Cloud), where I am also an R&D expert. Previously, I obtained a Ph.D. degree from Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University in 2025. I was very fortunate to have Prof. Mingyu Gao as my advisor. Before joining Tsinghua, I obtained a bachelor’s degree from School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University in 2020. My research interests mainly lie in confidential computing and system security, especially, the trusted execution environment (TEE), including its applications, constructions, side channels, formal models, and combination with cryptography. Here is my CV/简历.

Publications

• Loricae: Upgrading and Optimizing Multi-Party Computation Protocols with Filmy Hardware Enclaves
  Xiang Li, Baiting Jiang, Xiaoyu Fan, Weijie Liu, Yifan Song, and Mingyu Gao
  International Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2026) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-B] TBD
• Pyramid: A Secure, Resource-Efficient, and Pluggable Kubernetes for Multi-Tenancy
  Xiang Li, Weijie Liu, Fabing Li, Hongliang Tian, Zheli Liu, Shoumeng Yan, and Mingyu Gao
  European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2026) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-A] TBD
• BOMAP: A Round-Efficient Construction of Oblivious Maps
  Ruixuan Wang, Siyi Lv, Xiang Li, Haoshuai Gong, Zheli Liu, Tong Li, and Liang Guo
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-A] PDF
• TwinStore: Secure Key-Value Stores Made Faster with Hybrid Trusted/Untrusted Storage
  Xiang Li, Huanchen Zhang, and Mingyu Gao
  International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technology (APPT 2025) [Organized by CCF Technical Committee on Computer Architecture] PDF/Code
• Femur: A Flexible Framework for Fast and Secure Querying from Public Key-Value Store
  Jiaoyi Zhang, Liqiang Peng, Mo Sha, Weiran Liu, Xiang Li, Sheng Wang, Feifei Li, Mingyu Gao, and Huanchen Zhang
  ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2025) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-A] PDF/Code
• BULKOR: Enabling Bulk Loading for Path ORAM
  Xiang Li, Yunqian Luo, and Mingyu Gao
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2024) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-A] PDF/Code
• Secure MLaaS with Temper: Trusted and Efficient Model Partitioning and Enclave Reuse
  Fabing Li, Xiang Li, and Mingyu Gao
  Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2023) [TH-CPL-B, CCF-B] PDF/Code
• SODA: A Set of Fast Oblivious Algorithms in Distributed Secure Data Analytics
  Xiang Li, Nuozhou Sun, Yunqian Luo, and Mingyu Gao
  International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-A] PDF/Code
• Flare: A Fast, Secure, and Memory-Efficient Distributed Analytics Framework
  Xiang Li, Fabing Li, and Mingyu Gao
  International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-A] PDF/Code
• DHS: Adaptive Memory Layout Organization of Sketch Slots for Fast and Accurate Data Stream Processing
  Bohan Zhao, Xiang Li, Boyu Tian, Zhiyu Mei, Wenfei Wu
  ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2021) [TH-CPL-A, CCF-A] PDF

Education

• Tsinghua University
  • Ph.D. in computer science at IIIS, advised by Prof. Mingyu Gao. Sep 2020 - Jun 2025.
• Southeast University
  • B.Eng. in Information Engineering at School of Information Science and Engineering. Rank: 1/240. Sep 2017 - Jun 2020.
  • Undergraduate student in Transportation Engineering at School of Transportation. Rank: 2/270. Aug 2016 - Sep 2017.

Experiences

• China Telecom eSurfing Cloud (State Cloud)
  Director of Innovative Lab for Cryptographic Computing. Nov. 2025 - Present.
  R&D expert in Public Cloud Division. Jul. 2025 - Present.
• Alibaba Cloud
  Research intern in Database and Storage Lab. Mentor: Dr. Sheng Wang. Jul. 2024 - May 2025.
• Huawei
  Research intern in System Security Technology Lab. Mentor: Dr. Peng Xu. Oct 2023 - Apr. 2024.
• Ant Group
  Research intern in Security and Trust Division (S&T). Mentor: Dr. Hongliang Tian. Sep 2022 - Oct 2023.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant 20470084 Computer Architecture - Fall 2022.
• Teaching Assistant 80470262 Computer Systems and Architectures - Fall 2021.

Honors and Awards

• Qi Hang Award in Tsinghua University (清华大学启航奖), 2025.
• Outstanding Graduate of IIIS (清华大学交叉信息院优秀毕业生), 2025.
• Tsinghua University Jiang Nanxiang Scholarship (清华大学蒋南翔奖学金，20 out of all graduate students), 2024.
• Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship of Tsinghua University (清华大学综合优秀奖学金), 2023.
• Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship of IIIS (交叉信息院综合优秀奖学金), 2022, 2023.
• Excellent Social Practice Award of Tsinghua University (清华大学社会实践奖学金), 2022.
• Cyrus Tang Scholarship (唐仲英德育奖学金), 2016-2020.
• The Most Influential Undergraduate Students of Southeast University (东南大学最具影响力本科生, 10 out of all graduates), 2020.
• Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate of Southeast University (东南大学本科优秀毕业生), 2020.
• Sun Qingyun Innovation Scholarship (孙庆云创新奖学金), 2019.
• National Encouragement scholarship (国家励志奖学金), 2019.
• Merit Student (三好学生), 2019.
• National Scholarship (国家奖学金), 2018.
• Pacemaker to Merit Student (三好学生标兵), 2018.
• The First Prize Scholarship of CDEL (正保教育一等奖学金), 2018.