About me

I'm a Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Jason Hong. My main research interest focuses on helping developers make privacy-friendly apps. I am particularly interested in understanding why people create apps that violate privacy and building tools for developers to make protecting user's privacy a simple and straightforward task. I also work on side projects about notifications and mobile text entry.

Publications

• What Makes People Install a COVID-19 Contact-Tracing App? Understanding the Influence of App Design and Individual Difference on Contact-Tracing App Adoption Intention. [arXiv preprint]
  in arXiv preprint 2020.
  Tianshi Li, Camille Cobb, Jackie (Junrui) Yang, Sagar Baviskar, Yuvraj Agarwal, Beibei Li, Lujo Bauer, Jason I. Hong.
• How Developers Talk about Personal Data and What It Means for User Privacy: A Case Study of a Developer Forum on Reddit. [preprint] [5-minute talk]
  To appear at CSCW 2020.
  Tianshi Li, Elizabeth Louie, Laura Dabbish, Jason I. Hong.
• Decentralized is not risk-free: Understanding public perceptions of privacy-utility trade-offs in COVID-19 contact-tracing apps. [arXiv preprint] [project website]
  in arXiv preprint 2020.
  Tianshi Li, Jackie (Junrui) Yang, Cori Faklaris, Jennifer King, Yuvraj Agarwal, Laura Dabbish, Jason I. Hong.
• Analyzing the Role of General App Creators in Protecting the Privacy of Vulnerable Populations. [pdf]
  CHI 2020 Workshop: Privacy and Power: Acknowledging the Importance of Privacy Research and Design for Vulnerable Populations.
  Tianshi Li, Jason I. Hong.
• Demystifying Complex Workload–DRAM Interactions: An Experimental Study. [arXiv preprint]
  SIGMETRICS 2019.
  Saugata Ghose, Tianshi Li, Nastaran Hajinazar, Damla Senol Cali, Onur Mutlu
• Coconut: An IDE Plugin for Developing Privacy-Friendly Apps. [pdf] [project website] [talk slides] [news story] [demo video]
  IMWUT 2018 / UbiComp 2019.
  Tianshi Li, Yuvraj Agarwal, Jason I. Hong.
• Using ECC DRAM to Adaptively Increase Memory Capacity [arXiv preprint].
  in arXiv preprint 2017.
  Yixin Luo, Saugata Ghose, Tianshi Li, Sriram Govindan, Bikash Sharma, Bryan Kelly, Amirali Boroumand, Onur Mutlu.
• Understanding Latency Variation in Modern DRAM Chips: Experimental Characterization, Analysis, and Optimization. [pdf]
  SIGMETRICS 2016.
  Kevin K. Chang, Abhijith Kashyap, Hasan Hassan, Saugata Ghose, Kevin Hsieh, Donghyuk Lee, Tianshi Li, Gennady Pekhimenko, Samira Manabi Khan, Onur Mutlu.