CiCi Yutong Cheng

Ph.D. candidate @Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science.

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Gilbert Place 4112

Department of Computer Science

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24060

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Prof. Peng Gao. I received my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University. My research mainly focuses on the following topics:

  • Automated and AI-assisted security operations (SecOps)
  • LLM/MLLM specialization and customization
  • Agentic planning, reasoning, and learning

Education & Experience

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 01/2024-present
  • Research intern at Llama Family, Beijing, 09/2023-12/2023
  • Algorithm developer intern, AtomEcho, Beijing, 6/2023-09/2023
  • Research assistance at CUHK, Shenzhen, 9/2022-06/2023
  • Backend developer intern, Yuewen Group, Tencent, Beijing, 6/2020-9/2020
  • B.Eng. in Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, 9/2018-6/2022

News

Oct 29, 2024 ๐Ÿ’œ๐’ซ๐’ถ๐“…๐‘’๐“‡ Our paper, โ€œCTINEXUS: Leveraging Optimized LLM In-Context Learning for Constructing Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs under Data Scarcity,โ€ is now available on arXiv!
Oct 14, 2024 ๐Ÿ’›๐‘ช๐‘œ๐“ƒ๐’ป๐‘’๐“‡๐‘’๐“ƒ๐’ธ๐“ฎI am attending the 2024 ACM CCS conference in Salt Lake City, USA! See some of the excited moments here: Antelop Island, Utah Museum, City Walk. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿค 
Sep 09, 2024 ๐Ÿฉต๐’œ๐”€๐’ถ๐“‡๐’น I have been selected by the Bitshares Fellowship for smart-contract-related research project!
Sep 05, 2024 ๐Ÿค๐’ฎ๐“ฎ๐‘Ÿ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ฌ๐“ฎ I will be serving as the lab lead of the VT Security & Intelligence Lab from this semester.
Aug 27, 2024 ๐Ÿค๐’ฎ๐“ฎ๐‘Ÿ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ฌ๐“ฎ I reviewed 4 papers as an external reviewer for the NDSS 2025.
May 12, 2024 ๐Ÿค๐’ฎ๐“ฎ๐‘Ÿ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ฌ๐“ฎ I reviewed 1 paper as an external reviewer for the CCS 2024.
Mar 12, 2024 ๐Ÿฉต๐’œ๐”€๐’ถ๐“‡๐’น I have been selected for the 2024 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship.
Mar 04, 2024 ๐Ÿค๐’ฎ๐“ฎ๐‘Ÿ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ฌ๐“ฎ I served as the student organizer of the 2024 DMV Security Workshop.
Feb 15, 2024 ๐Ÿค๐’ฎ๐“ฎ๐‘Ÿ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ฌ๐“ฎ I reviewed 1 paper as an external reviewer for the DLSP 2024.
Jan 10, 2024 ๐Ÿค๐’ฎ๐“ฎ๐‘Ÿ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ฌ๐“ฎ I reviewed 1 paper as an external reviewer for the TOPS 2023.
Dec 24, 2023 ๐Ÿค๐’ฎ๐“ฎ๐‘Ÿ๐“‹๐’พ๐“ฌ๐“ฎ I reviewed 1 paper as an external reviewer for the EuroS&P 2024.
Nov 01, 2023 ๐Ÿ’œ๐’ซ๐’ถ๐“…๐‘’๐“‡ Our paper โ€œHue: A User-Adaptive Parser for Hybrid Logsโ€ Has been accepted for ESEC/FSE 2023.

Latest Posts

Nov 11, 2024 curl cookers
Nov 11, 2024 docker cookers
Nov 10, 2024 ้‡‘ๅˆš็ป:ๅ‡กๆ‰€ๆœ‰็›ธ๏ผŒ็š†ๆ˜ฏ่™šๅฆ„

Selected Publications

  1. arXiv
    CTINEXUS: Leveraging Optimized LLM In-Context Learning for Constructing Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs Under Data Scarcity
    Yutong Cheng,ย Osama Bajaber,ย Saimon Amanuel Tsegai,ย Dawn Song,ย andย Peng Gao
    In arXiv Preprint, Currently Under Peer Review, 2024
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  2. FSE-23
    Hue: A user-adaptive parser for hybrid logs
    Junjielong Xu,ย Qiuai Fu,ย Zhouruixing Zhu,ย Yutong Cheng,ย Zhijing Li,ย Yuchi Ma,ย andย Pinjia He
    In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE, 2023
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