Li ChenglongAssociate Research Professor
Personal information

Name: Li Chenglong
Title: Associate Research Professor
Phone: (010) 6260 3217
Email:
lichenglong@tsinghua.edu.cn

Education background

B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China, 2007
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China, 2012

Social service

Professional Experience
Senior Engineer, CNCERT, China, 2012–2021
Associate Research Professor, Tsinghua University, China, 2021–Present
Professional Affiliations

Executive Member, Blockchain Committee, China Computer Federation (CCF)
Communications Committee Member, Cyberspace Expert Committee, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE)
Executive Member, AI and Security Expert Committee, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
Founding Young Editorial Board Member, Information Countermeasure Technology journal

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Network Measurement
Situational Awareness
Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture
Traffic Classification
Anonymous Communication Systems & Dark Web

Research Status

Principal Investigator for two projects under China’s National Key R&D Program, one project under the National “242” Program, and one major Guangdong Provincial R&D project; participated as key personnel in multiple projects under the National 863 Program, 973 Program, and Science & Technology Support Plan.

Authored approximately 40 papers in leading international and domestic conferences and journals (e.g., CCS, NDSS, INFOCOM, TON, TDSC, TIFS, Journal of Software).

Holds about 20 granted Chinese invention patents.

Published three monographs.

Honors And Awards

Commendation, Cyberspace Administration of China, 2019

“Future Network Leading Innovative Technology” Award for Ultra Large Scale Cloud Network Intelligent O&M System, Future Network Development Conference, 2024

Outstanding Staff, Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University, 2022, 2023, 2024

Academic Achievement

Monographs

1. Yang Jiahai, He Lin, Li Chenglong. Cyberspace Mapping: Principles, Technologies, and Applications. People’s Posts and Telecommunications Press, 2023. (Supported by the National Academic Publication Fund for Science & Technology and MIIT Academic Publication Fund)
2. Wang Lihong, He Longtao, Liu Peipeng, Li Chenglong, Wang Xiao, Liu Wei. Research on Anonymous Communication Technologies. People’s Posts and Telecommunications Press, 2020.

Selected Journal & Conference Papers

1.  Lin H, Li C, Zhang W, et al. IoTProber: Internet-scale IoT Device Identification Based on Hierarchical Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation. ACM CCS 2026. (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
2.  Gao P, Zhang B, Wang J, et al. Mechanism-level coupling in evolutionary computation: Social learning control via Value Shaping and Decision Biasing[J]. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2026, 107: 102505. (SCI)
3.  Qin L, Luo Y, Li C, et al. FASST-LLM: Implementing Service Scanning Tools Automatically with LLM[C]//IEEE INFOCOM 2026-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. IEEE, 2026: 1-10. (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
4.  Dong C, Jiao H, Yang J, et al. F2D: Detection of resolver DNS hijacking based on filtration funnel strategy[J]. Cybersecurity, 2026, 9(1): 153. (CCF B)
5.  Jiao H, Dong C, Li C, et al. HINHJ: Hierarchical Attention-Based Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for DNS Hijacking Detection[J]. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2026. (TIFS) (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
6.  Lin H, Li C, Yang J, et al. ZVDetector: State-Guided Vulnerability Detection System for Zigbee Devices[C]//Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2025: 2549-2563. (CCS) (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
7.  Chen H, Song G, Wang Z, et al. IPdb: A high-precision IP level industry categorization of web services[C]//Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. 2025: 4374-4385. (WWW)  (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
8.  Lin H, Li C, Yang J, et al. CP-IoT: A Cross-Platform Monitoring System for Smart Home[C]// Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2024. (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
9.  Lin J, Li C, Gong W, et al. ProbeGeo: A Comprehensive Landmark Mining Framework Based on Web Content[J]. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2024. (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
10.  Duan C, Li S, Lin H, et al. IoTa: Fine-grained Traffic Monitoring for IoT Devices via Fully Packet-level Models[J]. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2024. (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
11.  Song G, He L, Zhu F, et al. AddrMiner : A Fast, Efficient, and Comprehensive Global Active IPv6 Address Detection System[J]. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking(TON), 2024. (TH-CPL A,CCF A)
12.  Luo Y, Li C, Wang Z, et al. IPREDS: Efficient prediction system for Internet-wide port and service scanning[C]//ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2024). (TH-CPL A,CCF B)
13.  Dong C, Yang J, Li Y, et al. E-DoH: Elegantly Detecting the Depths of Open DoH Service on the Internet[J]. CyberSecurity, 2025. (CCF B)
14.  林金磊,李城龙,宋光磊,樊琳娜,王之梁,杨家海.客户端独立的IP地理定位研究综述.软件学报,2025,36(1):321-340 (TH-CPL B,CCF T1)
15.  樊琳娜,李城龙,吴毅超,段晨鑫,王之梁,林海,杨家海. 物联网设备识别及异常检测研究综述[J]. 软件学报,2024,35(1):288-308 (TH-CPL B,CCF T1)
16.  Zhang W, Song G, He L, et al. 6vision: Image-encoding-based ipv6 target generation in few-seed scenarios[C]//2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP). IEEE, 2024: 1-12. (TH-CPL A,CCF B)
17.  Han D, Wang S, He Z, et al. Cutting Onions With Others' Hands: A First Measurement of Tor Proxies in the Wild[C]//2023 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking). IEEE, 2023: 1-9. (TH-CPL B,CCF C)
18.  Song G, He L, Zhao T, et al. Which Doors Are Open: Reinforcement Learning-based Internet-wide Port Scanning[C]//2023 IEEE/ACM 31st International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS). IEEE, 2023: 1-10. (TH-CPL B,CCF B)
19.  李维, 李城龙, 杨家海. As-Stream: 一种针对波动数据流的算子智能并行化策略[J]. 清华大学学报 (自然科学版), 2022, 62(12): 1851-1863. (TH-CPL B)
20.  Jia C, Li C, Li Y, et al. FACL: A Flexible and High-Performance ACL engine on FPGA-based SmartNIC[C]//2022 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking). IEEE, 2022: 1-9. (TH-CPL B,CCF C)
21.  Fan L, He L, Dong E, et al. EvoIoT: An evolutionary IoT and non-IoT classification model in open environments[J]. Computer Networks, 2022, 219: 109450. (TH-CPL B,CCF B, SCI)
22.  Sun, G., Chen, T., Su, Y., & Li, C. (2018). Internet traffic classification based on incremental support vector machines. Mobile Networks and Applications, 23(4), 789-796. (SCI)
23.  王兆国, 李城龙, 张洛什, 等. 一种基于行为链的 Android 应用隐私窃取检测方法[J]. 电子学报, 2015, 43(9): 1750-1755. (TH-CPL B,CCF T1)
24.  Li, C., Xue, Y., Dong, Y., & Wang, D. MCC: A Message and Command Correlation method for identifying new interactive protocols via session analyses[J]. Tsinghua Science and Technology,2012,17(3), 344-353. (TH-CPL B)
25.  Li, C., Xue, Y., Dong, Y., & Wang, D. (2011, December). "Super nodes" in Tor: existence and security implication. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (pp. 217-226). (Student Award)(TH-CPL B,CCF B)