Leyang Li

Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University

I study usable privacy and security, human-computer interaction, and human-centered AI.

I am a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Yaxing Yao. I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2026, where I worked with Prof. Toby Jia-Jun Li in the SaNDwich Lab. I also worked with Prof. Sauvik Das in CMU’s SPUD Lab in summer 2025.

Leyang Li

Research

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Education

2026 — present

Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Yaxing Yao

2022 — 2026

University of Notre Dame

B.S. in Computer Science, magna cum laude

Supplementary major in Applied Mathematics and Statistics · GPA: 3.95/4.00

Research experience

May 2025 — Feb. 2026

Research Intern · Carnegie Mellon University

SPUD Lab, Human-Computer Interaction Institute · Prof. Sauvik Das

SP-ABCBench: simulating and evaluating LLM agents’ privacy attitudes and behaviors.

Sept. 2023 — May 2025

Research Assistant · University of Notre Dame

SaNDwich Lab · Prof. Toby Jia-Jun Li

Research on non-visual cooking assistance and end-user auditing of content recommendations.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant & Tutor · Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

CSE 40771 Distributed Systems

Spring 2026

CSE 30341 Operating System Principles

Spring & Fall 2025 · Spring 2026

More background Honors and industry experience

Honors

Industry experience

Software Engineer Intern

China Construction Bank Fintech

  • Maintained a big data system using a Flink-based Kafka consumer.

Data Analyst Intern

Everbright Securities Asset Management

  • Applied machine learning to investment analysis using a GRU with multi-head self-attention.