Ganxiang Yang

ganxiang.yang@columbia.edu

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Photoed at Tokyo, July 2024

Hi! I am Ganxiang Yang (杨淦翔), a second-year Ph.D. student at Columbia University, advised by Assoc. Prof. Ronghui Gu. My research focuses on system code verification and on programming systems and optimizations in general, with the overarching goal of ensuring the correctness and security of safety-critical systems software through formal verification.

Previously, I received my Bachelor of Engineering degree at ACM Honors Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). In my undergraduate life, I was fortunate to work with Asst. Prof. Guoxing Chen at NSEC Lab and Assoc. Prof. Xinyu Xing at Northwestern University.

Details about my research interests are shown by my previous publications and projects below.


Publications

  1. Highly Automated Verification of Security Properties for Unmodified System Software
    Ganxiang Yang*, Wei Qiang*, Yi Rong*, Xuheng Li, Fanqi Yu, Jason Nieh, Ronghui Gu
    ASPLOS 2026
  2. A Formal Approach to Multi-Layered Privileges for Enclaves
    Ganxiang Yang, Chenyang Liu, Zhen Huang, Guoxing Chen, Hongfei Fu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Haojin Zhu
    NDSS 2025
  3. ShadowBound: Efficient Heap Memory Protection Through Advanced Metadata Management and Customized Compiler Optimization
    Zheng Yu,  Ganxiang Yang, Xinyu Xing
    USENIX Security 2024
* indicates equal contribution