Yutong “CiCi” Cheng is a Research Intern at NEC Laboratories America, Inc., where they contribute to advancing AI-driven security technologies at the intersection of large language models and cyber threat intelligence. A Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, CiCi specializes in Agentic Security and AI for Security Operations (AISecOps), developing systems that transform unstructured threat reports into structured, evidence-grounded knowledge graphs to support real-world SOC workflows. They contributed to CTINexus, accepted to the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025), and to CTIARENA, a benchmark for evaluating LLM reasoning across heterogeneous CTI tasks.
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