Ronghui Gu (顾荣辉)

Hiring!

My research group at Columbia University is looking for Ph.D./Master students, and Postdocs. Check out our recent PLDI'18, OSDI'16, and POPL'15 papers (and the press release) for an overview of our latest breakthrough on building bug-free and hacker-resistant system software.

Education

• Aug. 2011 to Aug. 2016, Yale University, Ph.D. in Computer Science.
• Advisor: Professor Zhong Shao
• Thesis: An Extensible Architecture for Building Certified Sequential and Concurrent OS Kernels.
• Distinction Dissertation of Yale Graduate School of Art and Science
• Yale Nominee of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Aug. 2007 to Jul. 2011, Tsinghua University, B.S. in Computer Science.
• Rank: 4/140
• Outstanding Undergraduate of Tsinghua University, 3 among 140

Manuscripts

• [arXiv] Contract-based Verification of a Realistic Quantum Compiler.
  Y. Shi, X. Li, R. Tao, A. Javadi-Abhari, A. Cross, F. Chong, R. Gu

Select Publications

• [CACM][New] Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels.
  R. Gu, Z. Shao, H. Chen, J. Kim, J. Koenig, X. Wu, V. Sjoberg, and D. Constanzo.
  Selected in the Research Highlights section.

• [SOSP 2019][New] Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval.
  L. Nelson, J. Bornholt, R. Gu, A. Baumann, E. Torlak, X. Wang

• [SOSP 2019][New] Using Concurrent Relational Logic with Helper for Verifying the AtomFS File System.
  M. Zou, H. Ding, D. Du, M. Fu, R. Gu, H. Chen

• [PLDI 2018] Certified Concurrent Abstraction Layers.
  R. Gu, Z. Shao, J. Kim, X. Wu, J. Koenig, V. Sjoberg, H. Chen, D. Constanzo, and T.Ramananandro

• [CAV 2018] Partial Order Aware Concurrency Sampling.
  X. Yuan, J. Yang, and R. Gu

• [OOPSLA 2017] An Auditing Language for Preventing Correlated Failures in the Cloud.
  E. Zhai, R. Piskac, R. Gu, X. Lao, and X. Wang

• [OSDI 2016] CertiKOS: An Extensible Architecture for Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels.
  R. Gu, Z. Shao, H. Chen, X. Wu, J. Kim, V. Sjoberg, and D. Constanzo
  Media coverage: Yale News, International Business Times, Yale Daily News

• [PLDI 2016] End-to-End Verification of Information-Flow Security for C and Assembly Programs.
  D. Constanzo, Z. Shao, and R. Gu

• [PLDI 2016] Toward Compositional Verification of Interruptible OS Kernels and Device Drivers.
  H. Chen, X. Wu, Z. Shao, J. Lockerman, and R. Gu

• [POPL 2015] Deep Specifications and Certified Abstraction Layers.
  R. Gu, J. Koenig, T. Ramananandro, Z. Shao, X. Wu, S. Weng, H. Zhang, and Y. Guo

Program Committees

PLDI 2020	NSDI 2019	SoCC 2019	SecDev 2019
PLDI 2018 ERC	SecDev 2018	ICFP 2018 SRC

Teaching

• COMS E6998 Formal Verification of System Software (Fall 2019).
• COMS 4115 Programming Languages and Translators (Spring 2019).
• COMS E6998 Formal Verification of System Software (Fall 2018).
• COMS W3101 Programming Languages (Spring 2018).
• Graduate Seminar on Systems.

Select Awards

• Feb. 2019, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Semi-Finalist.
• Dec. 2016, Distinction Dissertation, Yale University.
• Aug. 2016, Yale Nominee, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
• Feb. 2016, Robert Willets Carle Scholarship, Yale University.
• Aug. 2011, Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University.
• Jul. 2011, Outstanding Undergraduate (3 among 140), Tsinghua University.
• Jul. 2011, Outstanding Student of Beijing City, China.
• Jul. 2011, Hornors Undergraduate Thesis Award (5 among 140), Tsinghua University.
• Oct. 2010, Sohu Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
• Oct. 2009, Ticket Master Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
• Oct. 2006, First Prize of National Mathematical Olympiad Competition, China.