Qinghua Li

Federal Grant PI High Impact

Research Scientist

University of Arkansas

34 h-index 274 pubs 5,344 cited

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Qinghua Li's research has focused on cybersecurity, privacy-preserving technologies, and network communication. His work includes developing methods for achieving k-anonymity in location-based services and enhancing privacy through caching mechanisms. He has also investigated efficient and privacy-aware data aggregation in mobile sensing. Li has received significant federal funding for his research, including a $525,000 NSF grant as PI for the Center for Infrastructure Trustworthiness in Energy Systems (CITES) and a $50,000 NSF grant as PI for research on automated software security vulnerability and patch management. Additionally, he is a Co-PI on an NSF grant for a zero-trust-based security training program in Open RAN cyberinfrastructure, totaling $94,998.

With a career spanning over two decades, Li has authored or co-authored 274 publications, accumulating over 5,344 citations and an h-index of 34. His recent work includes an overview of the cybersecurity of battery management systems and the adoption of blockchain technology. Li collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Marie Louise Uwibambe and Kylie McClanahan, with whom he has co-authored five shared publications.

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h-index: 34
Publications: 274
Citations: 5,344

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Research Scientist 2001–present

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Research Scientist

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville ORCID

Selected Publications

Key-HIT: Hash-Induced Transformation for Keystroke Dynamics-Based Private Continuous Authentication (2026)

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Operationalizing Cybersecurity Governance for Mitigation Planning with Attack-Path Modeling and Reinforcement Learning (2026)

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Operationalizing Cybersecurity Governance for Mitigation Planning with Attack-Path Modeling and Reinforcement Learning (2026)

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InVue: Inferring Vulnerabilities from Encrypted Web Traffic (2025)

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CAPTure: Classifying APT Stages and Techniques via Graph-Enhanced Network Flow Representations (2025)

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Non-Linear Polynomial Approximations of the Sigmoid for Plain and Encrypted Models (2025)

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Optimizing the Selection of Vulnerability Remediation Actions in Operational Technology Environments (2025)

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Twitter-Based OSINT for Cyber Event Analytics (2025)

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A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Multi-Parametric Input Mutation for Fuzzing (2025)

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Safeguarding Industrial Automation: A Fuzzing Framework for PLC Control Logic (2025)

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POP-FA: Paillier and Order-Preserving encryption-based Facial Authentication (2024)

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Towards Automatically Matching Security Advisories to CPEs: String Similarity-based Vendor Matching (2024)

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When ChatGPT Meets Vulnerability Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2024)

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TraceMonitor: A Novel AI-Based Chrome Extension to Enhance User Awareness of Privacy Leakage towards Green Web Browsing (2024)

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Fuzzing for Power Grids: A Comparative Study of Existing Frameworks and a New Method for Detecting Silent Crashes in Control Devices (2023)

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