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 interests lie in inference-time scaling and in-context learning for LLMs, particularly in the software engineering and security domains. Broadly, my research focuses on:
- Coding Intelligence (Code Generation, Testing, Translation, …)
- Agentic Security
- AI-Driven Security Operations
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
Awards
- 2025 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship.
- 2024 CCI SWVA Cyber Innovation Scholarship.
- 2024 Bitshares Fellowship.
Services
- Reviewer, ICML 2026.
- Student Organizer, 2024 DMV Security Workshop.
Selected Publications
- 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.