Ganxiang Yang

ganxiang.yang@columbia.edu

Hi! I am Ganxiang Yang (杨淦翔), a second-year Ph.D. student at Columbia University, advised by Prof. Ronghui Gu. Previously, I received my Bachelor of Engineering degree at ACM Honors Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In my undergraduate life, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Guoxing Chen at NSEC Lab and Prof. Xinyu Xing at Northwestern University.

I build automated verification tools and optimizing compilers to guarantee the security, correctness, and performance of complex systems. My work applies PL and formal methods across the computing stack, spanning system software, specialized hardware architectures (like TEEs and GPUs), and quantum architectures.

News

Mar, 2026 Quasar is accepted by PLDI 2026!
Feb, 2026 I will be joining AWS Automated Reasoning Group this summer as an Applied Scientist Intern on Robert Dockins’s team!
Dec, 2025 Had a great time giving a talk about Quasar at NJPLS!
Nov, 2025 Spoq2 is accepted by ASPLOS 2026!
Sep, 2024 Palantir is accepted by NDSS 2025!
Aug, 2024 Moved to New York to start my Ph.D. at Columbia University!

Publications

  1. [PLDI 2026] Equality Saturation for Quantum Circuit Optimization
    Ganxiang Yang, Paige Raun, Runzhou Tao, Ronghui Gu
    The 47th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Boulder, CO, USA, Jun. 15-19, 2026.
  2. [ASPLOS 2026] Highly Automated Verification of Security Properties for Unmodified System Software
    Ganxiang Yang*, Wei Qiang*, Yi Rong*, Xuheng Li, Fanqi Yu, Jason Nieh, Ronghui Gu
    The 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Mar. 22-26, 2026.
  3. [NDSS 2025] A Formal Approach to Multi-Layered Privileges for Enclaves
    Ganxiang Yang, Chenyang Liu, Zhen Huang, Guoxing Chen, Hongfei Fu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Haojin Zhu
    The 32nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 24-28, 2025.
  4. [Security 2024] ShadowBound: Efficient Heap Memory Protection Through Advanced Metadata Management and Customized Compiler Optimization
    Zheng Yu, Ganxiang Yang, Xinyu Xing
    The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug. 14-16, 2024.
* indicates equal contribution