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 CACM Research Highlights, 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 systems 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
• Graduation with Highest Distinction, 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, and R. Gu

  [arXiv] CLN2INV: Learning Loop Invariants with Continuous Logic Networks.
  G. Ryan, J. Wong, J. Yao, R. Gu, and S. Jana

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.
  See "Technical Perspective: The Scalability of CertiKOS" by Andrew W. Appel.

• [POPL 2020][New] Virtual Timeline: A Formal Abstraction for Verifying Preemptive Schedulers with Temporal Isolation.
  M. Liu, L. Rieg, Z. Shao, R. Gu, D. Costanzo, J. Kim, and M. Yoon

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

• [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

Students

I am fortunate to work or have worked with these brilliant students.

• PhD: Runzhou Tao, John Zhuang Hui, Jianan Yao, Xupeng Li.
• BS: Justin Wong, River Dillon Keefer, Jerry Lin.
• Student collaborators: Shih-wei Li, Yunong Shi (UChicago), Xinhao Yuan, Mengqi Liu (Yale).

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

• Oct. 2019, Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlights.
• Feb. 2019, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Semi-Finalist.
• Dec. 2018, Columbia-IBM Center Seed Grant Award.
• Dec. 2016, Distinction Dissertation, Yale University.
• Aug. 2016, Yale Nominee, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
• Feb. 2016, Robert Willets Carle Scholarship, Yale University.
• Jul. 2011, Graduation with Highest Distinction (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. 2006, First Prize of National Mathematical Olympiad Competition, China.