Danyu Sun

I am a third year Ph.D. student in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine. My advisor is Prof. Zhou Li.

My research interests include security and privacy, with a recent focus on differential privacy and LLM-driven security applications.

Previously, I received my Master Degree at Duke University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Prof. Sudeepa Roy. And I received my my B.S. Degree at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

I am serving in a leadership role at the Society of Graduate Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists (GEECS) at UC Irvine.

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Publication
profile photo Indicator of Benignity: An Industry View of False Positive in Malicious Domain Detection and its Mitigation
Daiping Liu, Danyu Sun, Zhenhua Chen, Shu Wang, Zhou Li

NDSS, 2026 🏆 Distinguished Paper Award

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profile photo From Alerts to Intelligence: A Novel LLM-Aided Framework for Host-based Intrusion Detection
Danyu Sun, Jinghuai Zhang, Jiacen Xu, Yu Zheng, Yuan Tian, Zhou Li

Pre-print, 2025

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profile photo NetDPSyn: Synthesizing Network Traces under Differential Privacy
Danyu Sun, Joann Qiongna Chen, Chen Gong, Tianhao Wang, Zhou Li

ACM IMC, 2024

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profile photo DP-PQD: Privately Detecting Per-Query Gaps In Synthetic Data Generated By Black-Box Mechanisms
Shweta Patwa, Danyu Sun, Amir Gilad, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Sudeepa Roy

VLDB, 2024

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Industry Experience
  • Research Scientist Internship (06/2025--09/2025, Bytedance, San Jose)
Service
  • Served as a peer reviewer for ICML 2025
  • Served as a peer reviewer for NeurIPS 2025, 2024
  • Served as a peer reviewer for ICLR 2025
  • Served as a peer reviewer fo AISTATS 2025
Teaching Assitant
  • EECS 148/CS 132: Computer Network (2025 Spring, UCI)
  • Compsci 101: Introduction to Computer Science (2021 Fall to 2023 Spring, Duke University)

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