Yuange Li

About

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rutgers University, advised by Professor Aarushi Goel and Professor Xiong (Leo) Fan. I am currently a Research Engineer Intern at Chainlink Labs. Before starting my Ph.D., I spent several years in industry working on large-scale systems.

My research interests broadly lie in cryptography and security, especially zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable computation, and their applications to blockchain systems.

News

  • May 2026 I joined Chainlink Labs as a Research Engineer Intern, mentored by Dr. Gregory Neven.
  • 2026 Our paper SUMMER has been published in IEEE Euro S&P 2026.

Manuscripts

Sunshine Systems: Enabling Privacy-Preserving Compliance with Freedom of Information Laws

Aarushi Goel, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Yuange Li

Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2026/2072, 2026

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Publications

Selected published research.

SUMMER: Recursive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Scalable RNN Training

Yuange Li, Xiong Fan

IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P), pp. 99–117, 2026

[paper] [code]

Selected Research Project

Implementation-focused work related to my research interests.

SUMMER: Recursive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Scalable RNN Training

SUMMER is an end-to-end zero-knowledge proof of training system for recurrent neural networks. It combines verification for linear layers and non-linear activations with recursive proof composition to keep proof size and verification time independent of the number of training iterations.

Education

  • Rutgers University, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, 2023 to present
  • Rutgers University, M.S. in Computer Science, 2019 to 2023
  • Sun Yat-sen University, B.E. in Software Engineering, 2012 to 2016

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, CS442: Introduction to Cryptography, Spring 2026
  • Teaching Assistant, CS344: Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms, Fall 2025
  • Teaching Assistant, CS512: Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms, Fall 2024
  • Teaching Assistant, CS419: Computer Security, Spring 2024
  • Teaching Assistant, CS206: Introduction to Discrete Structures II, Fall 2023

Academic Service

  • External Reviewer: FC 2024, CRYPTO 2025, IEEE S&P 2026, CRYPTO 2026