CiCi Yutong Cheng
Ph.D. candidate @Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science.
About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, advised by Prof. Peng Gao. I received my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from BJTU. My research focuses on:
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Agentic Security -
AI-Driven Security Operations (AISecOps)
Internships & Experience
- Research intern, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., advised by Dr. Wei Cheng, Princeton, NJ, 01/2026-present
- Research intern, DeepWisdom, Remote, 10/2024-12/2024
- ML engineer intern, AtomEcho, Beijing, 6/2023-12/2023
- Software engineer intern, Yuewen Group, Tencent, Beijing, 6/2020-9/2020
News
| Mar 13, 2025 | 🩵𝒜𝔀𝒶𝓇𝒹 I have been selected for the 2025 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship. |
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| Sep 09, 2024 | 🩵𝒜𝔀𝒶𝓇𝒹 I have been selected by the Bitshares Fellowship. |
| Sep 05, 2024 | 🤍𝒮𝓮𝑟𝓋𝒾𝓬𝓮 I started serving as the lab lead of the VT Security & Intelligence Lab. |
| Mar 12, 2024 | 🩵𝒜𝔀𝒶𝓇𝒹 I have been selected for the 2024 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship. |
| Mar 04, 2024 | 🤍𝒮𝓮𝑟𝓋𝒾𝓬𝓮 I served as the student organizer of the 2024 DMV Security Workshop. |
Selected Publications
- EACL 2026NL2Logic: AST Guided Translation of Natural Language into First-Order Logic with Large Language ModelsIn Findings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL, 2026
- CTINEXUS: Automatic Cyber Threat Intelligence Knowledge Graph Construction Using Large Language ModelsIn Proceedings of the 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Euro S&P, 2025Adopted by cybersecurity companies (ThreatConnect, Palo Alto Networks) for automated threat intelligence analysis.