Leyang Li
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Leyang Li

Notre Dame, IN

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About

Software Developer / HCI Researcher

I am a 26' undergraduate student at the University of Notre Dame, persuing B.S. in Computer Science and ACMS (suppl.). My research interest lies in the interaction of Usable Privacy and Security, LLM Social Simulation, and Human-Centered AI.

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Education

Publications

Why am I seeing this: Democratizing End User Auditing for Online Content Recommendations

Chaoran Chen, Leyang Li, Luke Cao, Yanfang Ye, Tianshi Li, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li

In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

[UIST'25]

AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multimodal Information Between Reality and Videos

Zheng Ning, Leyang Li, Daniel Killough, JooYoung Seo, Patrick Carrington, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li

In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

[UIST'25]

Experience

Researcher Intern

SPUD Lab, HCII, Carnegie Mellon University

May 2025 - Present

  • Advised by Prof. Sauvik Das.
  • PriSim: A benchmark to simulate and evaluate LLM agents' privacy decision-making.

Research Assistant

SaNDwich Lab, University of Notre Dame

Sept. 2023 - Present

  • Advised by Prof. Toby Jia-Jun Li.
  • AROMA: A multimodal cooking assistant for BLV users, providing both reactive and proactive assistance.
  • Privacy Auditing Sandbox: An interactive interface for end-user auditing of online content recommendations using AI-generated virtual personas.

Teaching Assistant: Operating System Principles

CSE Department, University of Notre Dame

Jan. - May 2025

  • Led office hours, graded assignments, projects, and exams.

Software Engineer Intern

China Construction Bank Fintech

Jun. - Aug. 2024

  • Big Data System Maintenance (Flink-based Kafka consumer)

Data Analyst Intern

Everbright Securities Asset Management

Jul. - Aug. 2023

  • Machine Learning for Investment (GRU with multi-head self-attention)

Honors

Skills

Programming

Tools

Data Science & ML

Frameworks