Tianshi Li

Starting Fall 2024, I will be an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. That means:
📢 I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2024!
If you’re interested in designing and building human-centered solutions for privacy, or developer tools for social good, let’s connect! Read my research statement to learn more about my research interests and research philosophy. I also have new projects studying the emerging privacy issues in human-LLM interactions. Read my recent preprint to learn more.
My research interests lie at the intersection of HCI, privacy, and software engineering. I strive to address the increasing privacy issues in software systems by making it easier for developers to recognize, mitigate, and communicate privacy risks in the systems they program. I apply a human-centered lens to study the challenges developers face with regard to privacy, and I design, build, and evaluate IDE plugins to tackle these challenges by breaking down privacy responsibilities into lightweight annotating tasks, making privacy-enhancing considerations and actions part of the normal development process. My work has been recognized with an ACM CHI best paper honorable mention award and supported in part by a CMU CyLab Presidential Fellowship.
News
May 3, 2023 | Job search update: I’ll be joining the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024! Before that, I’ll spend a year in the Bay Area, working at Google Checks on privacy compliance intelligence and at Berkeley as a postdoc. Looking forward to the journey ahead! |
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Apr 20, 2023 | Our paper on the COVID-19 contact-tracing app adoption problem won a Best Research Papers 2019-2021 Award at Pervasive and Mobile Computing! |
Feb 20, 2023 | Excited to share my first funded grant from CMU CyLab, titled “Engaging End Users and Developers to Improve App Store Privacy Audits”! |
Dec 16, 2022 | Just passed my dissertation defense. I’m a soon-to-be Ph.D. now! |
Oct 12, 2022 | Matcha is released on the JetBrains plugin store! |
May 1, 2022 | Our paper on C-PAK, a novel mobile text entry technique is accepted to TOCHI 2022. |
Apr 1, 2022 | Our CHI’22 paper “Understanding Challenges for Developers to Create Accurate Privacy Nutrition Labels.” won a best paper honorable mention award. |
Mar 1, 2022 | Proposed my Ph.D. dissertation “Privacy-Enhancing Development Environment” |
Feb 1, 2022 | Our paper on developers’ challenges about privacy regulation features in ad networks is accepted to PETS 2022. |
Jan 1, 2022 | I started serving on the CHI 2022 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Program Committee. |