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! |
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| 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
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[PLDI 2026] Equality Saturation for Quantum Circuit OptimizationThe 47th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Boulder, CO, USA, Jun. 15-19, 2026.
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[ASPLOS 2026] Highly Automated Verification of Security Properties for Unmodified System SoftwareThe 31st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Mar. 22-26, 2026.
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[NDSS 2025] A Formal Approach to Multi-Layered Privileges for EnclavesThe 32nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 24-28, 2025.
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[Security 2024] ShadowBound: Efficient Heap Memory Protection Through Advanced Metadata Management and Customized Compiler OptimizationThe 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug. 14-16, 2024.